Vol. 142 No. 7, December 2009
Index
- Cartoon analysis.
- Civil Rights milestones 2008.
- Photo analysis.
- South America.
- Teacher's edition.
- Faking the vroom.
- What's for dinner?
- 200-year-old tweets.
- Exporting an alphabet.
- Stomachs vs. brains.
- $10 trillion.
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- $82 million.
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- Image problems.
- Will the Queen head home?
- Could your phone testify against you? Prosecutors are increasingly using cellphone data in court, which raises constitutional issues that pit public safety against privacy rights.
- From Red China to Green? A Times columnist says that China's decision to 'go green' should spur the U.S. to do the same.
- Brazil's moment: Rio's selection as the site of the 2016 Olympics confirms Brazil's rise as a Latin American, and global, power.
- A new look in Baghdad: during the worst years of the Iraq war, Muslim clerics decided what women could wear. Now, with security improving, the fashion rules have begun to change.
- 1859 Darwin and the 'Origin of Species': how one man redefined what it means to be human--and why his work is still a source of contention today.
- A cheater's redemption?
- To boldly go--but not come back: a scientist asks if one-way trips are the only way to realty explore Mars.
- Do we still need the post office? It's mentioned in the Constitution, but as Americans increasingly rely on the Internet, the role of the Postal Service is shrinking, and it's losing billions of dollars a year.
- [Cartoon].