Vol. 136 No. 10, March 2004
Index
- Great Plains population growth lags behind rest of the U.S.
- Upfront quiz 1.
- Upfront quiz show.
- Five hundred pairs of combat boots.
- Glowing fish, not reviews.
- In Brazil, school pays.
- Numbers in the news.
- Shut up and mingle.
- Fourteen years, five books (and counting).
- Lewis and Clark's lost necklace.
- Noted & quoted.
- Budget realities.
- Filling hockey's gaps.
- The politics of Web searches.
- Between two homes and two peoples: as a boy, Muhammad Hussein--the son of a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother--confronted Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. Today, he's a sergeant in the Israeli army.
- Separate is not equal: fifty years ago this May, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in the nation's public schools was unconstitutional. It was a major victory in the long struggle for civil rights.
- Poetic justice: Thurgood Marshall gets even: unable to attend the law school of his choice, he went on to lead the crusade against segregation.
- And fifty years later ... students from across the country talk about race in their high schools--and in their lives.
- The empty heartland: job and population losses are hitting the dozen states of the rural Great Plains hard. But some towns are finding ways to fight back.
- New life for the long dead: they've long been Egyptology's stepchildren, but mummies are now attracting greater attention.
- A threat on the home front?
- Sharing the burden of the war in Iraq.
- Today's competition in space: keen, not mean.
- A teenage Republican finds the proper fit.
- Were the Bush tax cuts good for the economy? President Bush's tax cuts have become a big issue in the presidential election. Two economists debate their effectiveness.
- Cartoons.