Vol. 140 No. 3, October - October 2007
Index
- Clarification.
- College majors: what's hot.
- Game show.
- Pakistan students.
- Why sad movies are fattening.
- Recipe for debt.
- Self-serve cycling.
- Who's been editing Wikipedia?
- Around the world in 97 days.
- Numbers in the news.
- Poultry in motion.
- An African tragedy: Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's most prosperous countries; today, it's a land of poverty and repression.
- Fashion police: bans on sagging jeans raise the question: what happens when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal?
- A matter of mosque & state: a number of universities have installed footbaths for use by Muslim students. Is this a legitimate accommodation of a religious practice, or unconstitutional support for a particular religion?
- A fair race? Oscar Pistorius, 20, wants to compete in the Olympics. But some thinks his artificial limbs give him an unfair advantage.
- Major dilemma: more schools are requiring high school freshmen to declare a major. Do majors make school more interesting, or do they force students to specialize to soon?
- "A grave wrong": during World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to abandon their homes and businesses and move to guarded camps surrounded by barbed wire.
- Joining the Army in wartime: enlisting wasn't a tough decision for Kalynn House; dealing with reactions from friends and neighbors was much harder.
- The real cost of fake goods: some of the profits from counterfeiting support criminal activities, and even terrorism.
- Is America's food supply safe? E. coli in spinach, salmonella in peanut butter--a string of recent contamination has prompted questions about food safety.
- Cartoons.