Vol. 142 No. 2, September 2009
Index
- Analyze the political cartoon.
- Teacher's edition.
- Upfront 2010 hot spots: Asia.
- Democracy, TV-style.
- Which monkey will live longer.
- 35,000 years before iPods.
- From endangered to pest.
- Up on a pedestal.
- No car? No problem.
- Numbers in the news.
- Organic internships.
- What's in a name? Rhode Island is debating whether to change its official name, which reminds some residents of its slave-trading past.
- Under one roof: legal & illegal: she was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child. Her brother was born here and is a citizen: a look at life in a 'mixed status' family.
- Receptionist of the United States: a young Iraq war veteran, Darienne Page helps keep the west wing of the white house running smoothly.
- Bombs away? Even as Iran, North Korea, and terrorists race to get them, President Obama says his goal is a world free of nuclear weapons. Six decades after hip, Oshima, is it possible?
- Are we cooking the planet? Millions of stoves in developing nations in Africa and Asia are a surprising--and growing--cause of global warming.
- Real questions, real answers: leading scientists give teens the facts about drug abuse.
- Are cellphones killing literature? When everyone's connected 24/7, many classic plot devices just don't work anymore.
- 1929: from boom bust: the lessons of the great depression are helping the nation deal with the current recession--and avoid another economic calamity.
- A wake-up call from youtube: a horrifying video forced Pantea Sotoodeh to focus on what's going on in Iran, her parents' native country.
- Should Supreme Court Justices continue to have life tenure? Five of the nine Justices are older than 70, prompting questions about how long they should be able to serve.
- Candid camera in an elevator? For a research project, one of my fellow graduate students wanted to film people in a campus elevator without their knowledge or consent. I think this is an invasion of privacy. He thinks it's fine because the film is for educational purposes and would never be shown publicly. Who's right?
- My family and I arrived at Disney World to find a crowd waiting to get in.
- Cartoons.