title: Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality On The Balkan Battlefields
author:  David Fromkin 
description: David Fromkin's instant analysis arrived in bookshelves less than two months after the completion of NATO's 11-week air campaign against the Serbian government led by Slobodan Milosevic. As such, it deals much more with the historical factors that led to Operation Allied Forces than with the military action itself. In addition to providing a very broad overview to about three millennia of Balkan history, Fromkin tracks the growth of the United States as a world power in the 20th century and its mixed record of interventionism, then shows how those two tracks collided in the aftermath of the First World War, and again shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite regimes in the late 1980s. "The positions taken by President Clinton in the 1990s," Fromkin argues, "are those staked out for the United States by President Wilson eighty years ago." He goes on to assert that those positions, which require the United States to support Eastern European "self-determination" in principle but oppose actual nationalist movements that it fears would undermine the region's political stability, have not--and likely never will--succeed in the long run. "Serbia's apparent surrender in June 1999 was a triumph for the United States. But it was the easy part," Fromkin concludes. But ending the war is not the same thing as bringing about peace. "It may be a long time, if ever, before we are justified in breaking open the champagne." <i>--Ron Hogan</i>
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  EXPERIMENTS WITH ALTERNATE CURRENTS OF HIGH POTENTIAL AND HIGH FREQUENCY
  
  A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
  
  by
  
  NIKOLA TESLA
  
  With a Portrait and Biographical Sketch of the Author
  
  NEW YORK
  
  1892
  
  Biographical Sketch of Nikola Tesla.
  
  While a large portion of the European family has been surging westward during
  the last three or four hundred years, settling the vast continents of America,
  another, but smaller, portion has been doing frontier work in the Old World,
  protecting the rear by beating back the "unspeakable Turk" and reclaiming
  gradually the fair lands that endure the curse of Mohammedan rule. For a long
  time the Slav people--who, after the battle of Kosovopjolje, in which the
  Turks defeated the Servians, retired to the confines of the present
  Montenegro, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia, and "Borderland" of Austria--
  knew what it was to deal, as our Western pioneers did, with foes ceaselessly
  fretting against their f