Vol. 138 No. 10, February 2006
Index
- Correction.
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Prescription drugs: their use and abuse.
- Raising the minimum wage.
- Fat cats and dog pounds.
- Google's-eye views.
- Numbers in the news.
- When Dubai freezes over.
- For kids in need, the gift of wheels.
- Noted & quoted.
- Studying a 'strategic' language.
- A scholarship with your name on it?
- Supreme Court jesters.
- War's heavy toll.
- Multiple minimums: Congress hasn't raised the federal minimum wage in years, but many states are increasing theirs.
- Is the government listening? The expansion of domestic spying after 9/11 raises some thorny constitutional issues.
- The 300 millionth American? Later this year, the U.S. population will reach a milestone. A look at how the nation has changed since we hit 200 million in 1967.
- Mideast muddle: with Israel's Prime Minister disabled and Hamas the victor in Palestinian elections, what's next for the region?
- Africa's child brides: forced by tradition to marry when they're as young as 10 or 11, girls in rural sub-Saharan Africa pay a lasting price.
- 1946: the iron curtain & the Cold War: after World War II, the United States and its Allies began a 40-year struggle to contain the spread of Soviet Communism.
- Dragon slayers for hire: young people in China will play your favorite computer game for you, hour after hour--for a fee. In fact, it's becoming a booming business.
- Should there be a federal shield law for journalists? Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia already protect the right of journalists to refuse to testify and identify their sources.
- 'Las tortugas son mis amigas'.
- 'No one, not even the president, is above the law'.
- Helping kids like Abdul.
- In dealing with athletes, playtime is over.
- Cartoons.