Vol. 138 No. 6, November 2005
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Political cartoon.
- What Americans earn.
- Goats go out on a limb.
- Stamp blunder pays off.
- Dial-up drama.
- Just wait till you hear ...
- Numbers in the news.
- A cup-o-noodles from the past.
- Heating up the charts with rhythm & blues.
- Noted & quoted.
- Exporting an electronic wasteland.
- This bird 'plays' its wings.
- Where pets eat best.
- A Supreme battle? Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court sets the stage for an ideological fight in the Senate.
- Does class still matter? It's harder than it once was to tell a person's class in America. But in some ways, class still plays an important role in our lives.
- Can 'gouging' be a good thing?
- Beyond the border: tensions are rising along the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border, which a million Mexicans try to cross illegally each year.
- Big dreams in Mexicali: Alicia Alvarez is a straight-A student who dreams of college. But like Mexico itself, her path to success is strewn with roadblocks.
- The debate over Indian mascots: does the NCAA's ban on Indian mascots and nicknames go too far, or not far enough? Fans--and tribes--are divided.
- 1991: the war before the war: the Persian Gulf war ended with an allied victory--and Saddam Hussein still in power.
- In the information age, it's a woman's world.
- The death of Sergeant Anthony G. Jones.
- What iPods can do for China.
- Should stem-cell research receive federal funding? Congress is considering relaxing the rules for funding this controversial research.
- Speaking out for homeless kids.
- Cartoons.