MER
May 2001
Where It Went
Closed mid-April 2001 · On stands late April 2001
The Front
Field Notes: April
Egg prices climbing before Easter, the first spring-training box scores, tee times booked out at the season's opening courses, the season's best-selling paperback in airport terminals
The Essay
Where It Went
Fresh Kills Landfill closes on Staten Island, the endpoint of a system the essay traces backward, not forward
The Foreign File
The Hainan Standoff
A U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter collide over the South China Sea; the American crew sits interned on Hainan for eleven days
The Feature Well
The City
The Back
Spring Notices
Short reviews of the season's garden and design books, and the spring's chart-topping pop singles