Vol. 141 No. 13, April 2009
Index
- American newspapers disappearing! Read all about it!
- Job seekers wait in the rain outside a recent job fair in Hangzhou, in eastern China.
- Why birds wear backpacks.
- A Hunkier Shakespeare.
- How long will the fun last?
- Prime-time recession.
- How green is your cell phone?
- No more colds?
- Numbers in the news.
- Google mistrials: a cornerstone of the American legal system is that judges decide what evidence a jury gets to see and hear. Now, with iPhones and BlackBerrys in their pockets, some jurors are doing their own research. Is justice being denied?
- The cost of capital punishment: death-penalty opponents are using a new argument for tough economic times: that capital punishment is too expensive.
- Indonesia: another face of Islam: the world's most-populous Muslin nation isn't in the Middle East, and that's one of the reasons it's a very different kind of place.
- Armed & underage: across the globe, thousands of children are being forced to serve as soldiers.
- She got game: more girls than ever are playing high school sports, but getting onto the baseball diamond can still be a challenge.
- 1939: Marian Anderson sings to the nation: barred from Washington's 'whites only' Constitutional Hall, Anderson performed a the Lincoln Memorial--and helped set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement.
- Should Washington D.C., get a vote in Congress? Congress is considering a bill that would give the District a vote in the House, but critics argue it's unconstitutional.
- Ten trillion and counting.