Vol. 139 No. 10, February 2007
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- The cost of war: in lives and dollars.
- A rare shark.
- Library louts.
- $363.32.
- 11.
- 34,452.
- 51%.
- 80.
- A hamburger war.
- Equal cheers draw some jeers.
- Billboards get personal.
- Medina's journey: from Square One to Queen.
- Noted & quoted.
- Fewer children.
- Psychic squirrels.
- Towns vanish, then reappear.
- Pesos for pizzas? A Texas-based pizza chain begins accepting Mexican pesos as well as dollars--and hits a nerve in the ongoing debate over immigration.
- Will Americans vote outside the box? For more than 200 years, American Presidents have been, with one exception, white, male, and Protestant. In 2008, a number of presidential 'firsts' are possible.
- What's in s Mascot? When the N.C.A.A. cracked down on Indian mascots last year, not every tribe applauded. A look at the relationship between the Seminoles and Florida State University.
- Hurricane Hugo: Venezuela's populist President, Hugo Chavez, has begun to back up his anti-American and socialist bluster with action. Is he turning into an old-style Latin American strongman?
- On thin ice: the Arctic territory where polar bears roam is literally melting out from under them.
- Vietnam the war that's still with us: more than three decades after the last soldiers came home, the longest war in American history still casts a long shadow.
- Virtual science labs: web sites featuring simulated chemistry labs or virtual frog dissections are becoming popular teaching tools. But are they a substitute for hands-on experience?
- Should the U.S. close the prison at Guantanamo? There are 395 terrorism suspects being held at a high-security prison at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Living with AIDS in Africa.
- Happy birthday, Champ!
- What $1 trillion can buy [besides the war in Iraq).
- Will China choke on its own growth?
- Cartoons.