Vol. 136 No. 1, September 2003
Index
- America's global reach costs big bucks.
- Upfront quiz show.
- Now I'm a test-tube teenager.
- How about a bar of soap for my monkey?
- Teen gossip jumps to the Web.
- Black in class.
- Do fish ache?
- Violent games beneficial? Well ...
- Brenton Butler didn't do it: but he did confess. And so do a surprising number of innocent people--teenagers in particular. Studies show that teens are especially vulnerable to making false confessions with terrible consequences.
- The parties face off: Bush supporters say young people will help turn the President's popularity into an era of Republican rule. But polls show the country is still closely divided.
- Is American an empire? America is the world's only superpower. It dominates the globe militarily, economically, and culturally. It is a 21st-century empire? And how does the rest of the world feel about that?
- Why I go extreme: for world class adventure athlete Will Gadd, real life begins up in the clouds.
- The muscle that built the rail: to complete the transcontinental railroad, two companies hired cheap immigrant labor and raced to lay the most track.
- Should the high court restrict a suspect's right to remain silent? Soon it could be, "you have the right to remain silent--after the police question you." The Supreme Court will decide this year.
- Cartoons.