Vol. 139 No. 12, April 2007
Index
- Advertising: by the numbers.
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- A hotel guest.
- Surf's upscale! Catching a wave: a new-and-improved image for surfing.
- Coulda, woulda, shoulda ...
- Newborn Nixons & little Lenins.
- Numbers in the news.
- Is there no escape? In their efforts to grab consumers' attention, advertisers seem determined to fill every available space.
- Going to war: who decides? The debate between President Bush and Congress over the conduct of the Iraq war is the latest in a long line of disputes over war powers.
- Desperate letters: newly discovered letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto, chronicle his anguished efforts to get his family into the United States.
- Turkey at a crossroads: partly in Europe and partly in Asia, Turkey literally and figuratively straddles East and West. The question is, which way will Turkey turn?
- 1947: Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: long before the civil rights movement took center stage, baseball's color barrier fell when Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- In the shoes of an illegal immigrant: at a park in central Mexico, tourists pay to simulate an illegal border crossing. Does this teach empathy, or is it just plain crass?
- Should schools do random drug testing? Since the Supreme Court ruled random testing programs constitutional in 2002, more than a thousand schools have implemented them.
- Are thin mints on thin ice?
- Iran's women challenge the mullahs, one signature at a time.
- Is it news or entertainment?
- Cartoons.