Vol. 133 No. 2710, July 2004
Index
- Fireworks have potential to blast hearing health.
- Government is great teen job source.
- Hollywood time is not geological time.
- Summer travel checklist: childproof the vitamins.
- Travel snacks can spoil vacation.
- Adios fuel stops; I'm telecommuting.
- Barbecue tips for summer grillers.
- Rising interest rates unnerve homebuyers.
- Activity sharing with your pet.
- Lightning strikes--even indoors.
- Local newspapers key to public opinion in war.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning on boats.
- Leaving mosquitoes out of Wetland restoration.
- Sound the alarm on summer burglars.
- U.S. agricultural exports heading for a record.
- Protecting people inside buildings: "it is the need to defend against the next generation of potential terrorist weapons--a witch's brew broadly designated as chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) agents--that is driving the current revolution in safety systems.".
- Media bias and the culture wars.
- Creating a more secure America: by employing cooperative engagement--the perfect antidote to the Bush Administration's insistence on preemptive unilateralism--the U.S. can bring its security doctrine more in line with global realities.
- The bad news is really good news: with South Korea flexing its considerable economic muscle on the world stage, the U.S. suddenly has a new competitor--and partner--in the ever-evolving global marketplace.
- The new health savings accounts.
- How to overcome your estate planning blues: "it takes time, costs money, raises difficult family issues, and revolves around something most of us do not want to think about--death.".
- A misplaced mania for milk: "increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors not only to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, but prostate cancer, allergies, and possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cause chronic constipation, ear infections, colic, asthma, and skin disorders.".
- A head start to nowhere? Four decades and $66,000,000,000 after Head Start was launched, "the school readiness gap between poor children and their middle-class peers remains stubbornly large ... Perhaps ... no government program ever can compensate for what a hard life takes away.".
- Shoot first, talk later: how the U.S. has abandoned diplomacy.
- What we don't know about terrorism.
- Seurat and the making of "La Grande Jatte": viewers can "reassess the artist's unique status as a draughtsman, colorist, theorist, and 'painter of modern life,' as well as his talent in relation to his forebears and contemporaries.".
- Picnic pests or ecological marvels? Ants--who have roamed the Earth since the days of the dinosaur--are expert farmers, fearsome warriors, voracious meat-eaters, and omnipresent socialites. Most of all, however, they are virtually indestructible.
- Death's indelible impression: "... at the base of a hickory tree was a glistening pool of dark blood. I was tempted to touch its perfectly tensioned surface. Instead, as I stared, it shrank perceptibly ... as if the Earth had taken a delicate sip.".
- The Saudis have America over a barrel.
- As the constitution color-blind? "... Class remedies, such as affirmative action and racial set-asides, assume that all members of the 'monolithic white majority' are guilty of racial class injuries and all members of 'discrete and insular' minorities are victims of such injuries.".
- The influence of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on hip hop: "... success and prosperity for the majority of black Americans in the 21st century only will be achieved by a strong coalition of Christians and Muslims who are dedicated to the values of democracy and social justice.".
- Giant media monopolies hurt everyone.
- Dissent is as American as apple pie: "American citizens are torn by an ill-advised war and occupation led by leaders who, in seeking to stifle the sort of healthy debate democracy requires, do not seem to understand, indeed, who seem to shun, our nation's history.".
- The corporate name game.
- Two stars for peace: "every newly stitched American flag will declare that peace has been achieved by embracing Israelis and Palestinians as American citizens, and by welcoming their lands as unique--and equal--states.".
- Everything is ducky.
- Backyard security againts skeeter attack.
- Cooling off the fury of sun glare.
- Funky cocktails.
- Burden bearing beach buggy.
- Sustaining silky smooth sexy summer skin.
- An elegant solution for a music & video library.
- Splish splash it's more fun than taking a bath.
- Stow N Go is good to go.
- You've got the power of water in your hand.
- Museum memo.
- Three tales of starfaring visitors. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Starship Troopers," "Starman".
- Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism.
- Loud and Clear.
- The Heart of the Matter: the Three Key Breakthroughs to Preventing Heart Attacks.
- Government and religion.