Vol. 142 No. 10, March 2010
Index
- Cartoon analysis.
- Corrections.
- Photo analysis.
- What advertisers spend to get our attention.
- A chorus of complaints.
- Russians were surprised.
- Are we wired to help?
- Hail Caesar (maybe).
- Wanted: 'cyber ninjas'.
- $10.6 billion.
- $177,000.
- 214.
- 40 million.
- 7.5.
- Korea's growth complex.
- Skywatch: the world's tallest buildings.
- What's next for Haiti? How do you rebuild a country that was in rough shape even before a massive earthquake? And what role should the U.S. play?
- Truth in advertising? How truthful do ads have to be--and how much should we believe?
- Apartheid's long shadow: while South Africa has made great progress in the last two decades, it's still struggling to deal with the legacies of apartheid.
- Counting America: the U.S. has taken a census every 10 years since 1790, as the constitution requires. So why is the 2010 census sparking such intense debate?
- Mark Twain's bad boy: on its 125th anniversary, Huckleberry Finn is considered one of the great American novels. But like its protagonist, the book has often been in trouble.
- Is it OK to lie to a dog? Sometimes my dog, Ornette, escapes our fenced yard and won't return on command. We open the car door and tell her excitedly that we'll take her for a walk--her favorite activity--to entice her into the car. Then we put on her leash and take her home, no walk. Although dogs don't really understand language in the way humans do. Is it stilt wrong to mislead her?
- Should U.S. airports use full-body scanners? A decade after 9/11, the ability of a Nigerian man to get explosives on a flight to Detroit raises troubling questions about airport security.
- [Cartoon].
- Teacher's edition.