Vol. 136 No. 6, December 2003
Index
- More time in school = less obesity?
- Upfront quiz show.
- Creating new-car smell.
- The aurora borealis.
- Hip grapefruit?
- Numbers in the news.
- Return of the whale hunters.
- Cloned food fight.
- Critiquing all those nutty web sites.
- Grown-up dolls for little girls.
- Does stress cause acne?
- Doggie DNA.
- Saying no.
- Expelling Saddam: with Iraq's dictator out of power, schools are removing his image and propaganda from their books and lessons.
- Asia's missing girls: technology that lets pregnant women know the sex of their babies--combined with a traditional preference for sons--has caused a gender imbalance across much of Asia.
- Corruption & despair choke Zimbabwe: it was once one of Africa's most prosperous countries. But five years after its government began seizing white-owned farms, Zimbabwe's economy is in ruins.
- Help wanted: why are so many potential candidates passing on the chance to run for seats in the House in 2004?
- Is corn making us fat? Michael Pollan argues that U.S. farm policy promoting overproduction of corn has made America overweight--and made big food companies very happy.
- For the Amish, tradition and the Law Collide: wary of idle hands, the Amish are seeking an exemption from child labor laws for their teenage boys.
- When man took to the skies: one hundred years ago this month, in Kitty Hawk, N.C., the Wright brothers gave the world powered flight.
- Smile, you're on candid cell phone: with millions of cell-phone snapshots being beamed into cyberspace, are people's privacy rights at risk?
- Should players be eligible for the NFL draft right out of high school? With Maurice Clarett challenging the NFL's three-year waiting rule in court, two NFL Hall of Fame players square off.
- Cartoons.
- Politic's is local in New Hampshire's primary.