Vol. 139 No. 6, November 2006
Index
- Tobacco addiction and secondhand smoke: a message from Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA.
- Letter from the editor.
- Muslim immigrants in Europe.
- Political cartoon.
- One small step toward invisibility.
- The Lesotho promise.
- Missing those pies and fries.
- Numbers in the news.
- Paying tribute or trivializing?
- Marc Davis: fast times at Lake Norman High.
- Noted & quoted.
- Why put up with a lazy rat?
- Married life, after death.
- Sidestepping the gas guzzlers.
- Team Congress takes the field.
- A loud message for the president: the Democrats' success in this month's midterm elections has created a new political landscape in Washington. The results were widely seen as a call for change.
- Travis's dilemma: his father wants him to take over the family farm in Kansas. But 18-year-old Travis Warner, who has just started college, isn't so sure. Will he join the exodus of young people leaving the rural Great Plains for opportunities elsewhere?
- When speaking out was a crime: freedom of speech during wartime has long been the subject of debate. During World War I, 79 people were convicted under Montana's sedition laws. It's taken 88 years to clear their names.
- Teens and tobacco.
- The deadly effects of tobacco addiction.
- Out of Africa: more Africans are now coming to the United States as immigrants than in the days of slavery.
- Slavery's diaspora pays a visit: Ghana wants the descendants of American slaves to visit, invest, and even settle in the land of their ancestors.
- Behind the veil debate: the British debate over full-face veils worn by some Muslim women raises a bigger issue: how well are Muslims assimilating in Great Britain and the rest of Europe?
- 1607: the legacy of Jamestown: four hundred years ago, the first permanent English settlement in North America planted the seed that became the United States. How would things be different if the colonists had given up and gone home?
- Does the 'Real ID' law make sense? The controversy involves not only whether it will make Americans safer, but also whether it's a step toward national ID cards.
- Tomorrow will be a better day.
- Are paper books doomed?
- Lessons in the real world.
- Take it from the Iraqis ...
- Cartoons.