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COLUMNS
Works in Progress • Rhinestone Cowboys
One fills orders for industry, the other conjures rare compounds for their own sake. For both men, crystal growing is an obsessive craft
DIANA LUTZ
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Body Shop
The Chinese do a booming international organ-transplant business, using parts from executed prisoners. And executions are on the rise. Is demand now driving supply?
DAVID J. ROTHMAN
FEATURES
Peak Capacity
In the thin air of the Himalayas, linguists discover that speech and thought are inextricably linked
PHILIP LIBERMAN
Small Things Considered
en numbers get too big for the universe to contain, perhaps it is time to construct a new kind of "non-Euclidean" arithmetic
BRIAN ROTMAN
PAINTINGS BY ALEXIS ROCKMAN
The Truth About Counting
A beetle's-eye view of the Guyanan rain forest reveals a world of violence, rot and feverish opportunism
TEXT BY DAVID QUAMMEN
REVIEWS
Family Values
Among nature's sexiest primates, the stirrings of a moral code
MEREDITH F. SMALL
Books in Brief • The Organization Man
PLUS: When dog owners fail; transplant potboiler
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
The Organ Trade
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • What If?
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
The flavor of fat; clones on the treadmill; biosensors; the coal shebang
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