Vol. 139 No. 11, March 2007
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Where refugees settle in the U.S.
- Somewhere, the bears are champs.
- The resurgence of the American bison.
- 118.
- 35 million.
- 44%.
- 77%.
- 87,000.
- A new Stonehenge mystery.
- The yoga debate.
- A solo journey cross the Atlantic.
- Noted & quoted.
- TV ratings go to college.
- A doggy diet drug.
- To buy, or not to buy.
- Will China catch up?
- Unfinished business: victims of civil rights era crimes are finally getting justice through the persistence of relatives, journalists, and prosecutors.
- Do dollars discriminate? Most Americans wouldn't like depending on the goodwill of others to tell the difference between $1 and $20 bills. A judge wants the government to redesign U.S. paper money so that blind people can distinguish between bills. Leaders of two groups representing the blind offer opposing views of the ruling.
- Do dollars discriminates? Identifying money by feet may be more convenient, but inconvenience is not the same thing as discrimination.
- A town, and team, transformed: immigrants have always inspired strong reactions, both positive and negative. A look at how a boys soccer team made up of refugees and a small town in Georgia are learning to live with each other.
- Women at war: officially, American women can't serve in combat, but in Iraq and Afghanistan they're fighting--and dying--as never before.
- Putin's Russia: is President Vladimir Putin's increasingly autocratic behavior a threat to Russia's fragile democracy?
- 1917 Russia's year of revolutions.
- Should there be Bible classes in public schools? Starting this fall, Georgia public schools can offer Bible classes. Five other states are considering the idea.
- Mr. Frohlichstein goes to Washington; his job as a congressional page gave Richie Frohlichstein a close-up view of the House at work.
- Can Beckham bring America closer to the world?
- Don't throw out those pennies just yet.
- How to resolve the conflict with Iran.
- Cartoons.