Vol. 136 No. 2, September 2003
Index
- Computer consumers scream, "ban the spam!".
- Upfront quiz show.
- Finding a roomie online.
- Lights out.
- Model employees.
- Numbers in the news.
- Strange rumors fly in the Iraqi capital.
- Courting young Mideast minds.
- Miss Teen USA: crown as microphone.
- They really said it.
- Acting political.
- New pronouns for some old parchment.
- Old soles generate new cash.
- Madness recall: a circus-like election to recall California's Governor is either democracy in action or--as some critics worry--the beginning of its descent into chaos.
- Enough is enough: Americans get millions of unsolicited phone calls and junk e-mails. Congress is acting to limit them. But marketers say they have a free-speech right to make their pitches.
- Liberation for Liberia? Liberia has suffered through 14 years of civil war. Now that troublemaker ex-President Charles Taylor is finally gone, could the nation at long last begin to heal its wounds?
- Whose side are they on? U.S. officials have accused Arab news network Al Jazeera of biased coverage. Are any media really objective in times of war?
- How American slavery led to the birth of Liberia: in 1820, a private American group established Liberia as a colony for freed U.S. slaves. But it was troubled from the start.
- Arrested far from battlefields, but held as enemy combatants: several terrorism suspects have been arrested in America but denied the protections of the U.S. justice system. Is that fair?
- Cartoons.
- My home is my classroom.