"Dr. Darwin’s Rx" by Beth Saulnier, in Cornell Magazine (Mar.–Apr. 2001), Cornell Alumni Federation, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850–1247.
"Rockwell Kent Rediscovered" by Stephen May, in American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2001),
P.O. Box 1654, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10276.
"Holden Caulfield’s Legacy" by David Castronovo, in New England Review (Spring 2001), Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 05753.
"Does Religion Matter? Christianity and Public Support for the European Union" by Brent F. Nelsen, James L. Guth, and Cleveland R. Fraser, in European Union Politics (June 2001), Sage Publications Ltd., P.O. Box 5096, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91359.
"Russia" by Anders Åslund, in Foreign Policy (July–Aug. 2001), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
average healthcare standards in Russia have fallen," Åslund maintains. Indeed, the infant mortality rate fell by 17 percent between 1993 and 1998.
Slow as Russia’s reforms have been, Åslund says, they "have progressed far enough to keep the communists at bay."
"Blood Diamonds" by Frédéric Barrault, in African Geopolitics (Spring 2001), 815 15th St., N.W., Ste. 506, Washington, D.C. 20005; "The Failure of Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone" by William Reno, in Current History (May 2001), 4225 Main St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19127.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
KIERKEGAARD: A Biography. By Alastair Hannay. Cambridge Univ. Press. 496 pp. $34.95
WAR IN A TIME OF PEACE: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. By David Halberstam. Scribner. 544 pp. $28