Vol. 140 No. 7, December 2007
Index
- Game show.
- Refugees: where they come from.
- Moscow's b-boys.
- Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army.
- From 'Bobby' to Governor Jindal.
- Silly String goes to war.
- You can bank on them.
- Numbers in the news.
- The way to a chimp's heart.
- Their ad on your car.
- Guilt by the bottleful: bottled water is being portrayed as an environmental villain. But is it any different from bottled soda or juice?
- Primary matters: a quick guide to how the major parties pick their presidential candidates.
- A day on the campaign trail: even in the Internet age, you can't run for President without meeting voters face to face. Upfront spends a day with Senator Barack Obama in New Hampshire.
- Anatomy of an execution: after a few last words, 1,750 volts puts to death a father who shot his four children.
- The death penalty: where it stands today: the Supreme Court has effectively halted all executions while it considers a case from Kentucky challenging the constitutionality of lethal injections.
- The other war: Iraq gets most of the headlines, but the war in Afghanistan may prove to be more important in the fight against terrorism. And while it has made great strides in the last six years, Afghanistan is again struggling with a resurgent Taliban.
- Art or history? Dina Babbitt survived Auschwitz by painting portraits of Gypsy prisoners for Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Now 84, Babbitt wants her paintings back, but the Auschwitz Museum won't give them up.
- Che: the man behind the myth: how did Fidel Castro's ruthless lieutenant during the Cuban Revolution become such a hip icon?
- Should the death penalty be abolished? Capital punishment is on the books in 37 states, and in the federal courts.
- The quiet generation: are today's young people too quiet--and too online--for their own good?
- When dad goes off to war: Brittany Fraser's father has been in Iraq for more than a year, and life on the home front hasn't been easy.
- Cartoons.