The New Yorker - Issue: 3; March 12 - 2007

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 25 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Adam Gopnik on the remains of our days; James Surowiecki on market meltdowns. Michael Specter 32 ANNALS OF SCIENCE The Denialists AİDS mavericks and the damage they da. Joan Ato cella 40 ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS SN,vans' Way Matthew Bourne's choreog,raphy. Paul Rudnick 47 SHOUTS e, MURMURS Inappropriate Steve Coll 48 A REPORTER AT LARGE The Unthinkable Our shield against nudear terrorism. John McPhee 58 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS Season on the Chalk Tacing the Cretaceous through Europe. Tatyana Tolstaya 72 FICTION "See the Other Side" THE CRITICS BOOKS Louis Menand 76 "Nixon and Mao," by Margaret MacMillan. Arthur Krystal 80 The histog ofduelling. 85 Briefly Noted Sasha Frere-Jones 86 POP MUSIC Fail Out Boy. Anthony Lane 90 THE CURRENT CINEMA "The Host." POEMS 11/lary Jo Bang 53 "Landscape with the Fail of karus" Christian Wiman 74 "After the Diagnosis" COVER "The Man Who Loved Women,» by Benoit van Innis DRAWINGS Mick Stevens, David Sipress, Kim Waıp,Jack Ziegler,Jason Patterson, Alex Gregog, Robert Weber, William Haefeli , Frank Cotham, P. C. Vg, Mike Twohy, Gahan Wilson, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Leo Cullum, DrewDernavich SPOTS Laurent Cilluifo