Vol. 137 No. 10, February 2005
Index
- Executions in America.
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Opinion & debate.
- A 25-foot-high boulder tumbled onto a highway in Malibu, Calif., during a weekend of relentless rainstorms in early January.
- Lake Chargog Ga What?
- 'Robo-roach' takes charge.
- Caught in the Web.
- Numbers in the news.
- A surfable sea of knowledge.
- Noted & quoted.
- Repeat after us and improve your English.
- Exam anxiety: the pressure to perform.
- Helping tsunami victims.
- How 'brand loyal' is your brain?
- Why haven't we found.
- When nature changes history: a nation and its people can be changed forever by the social and political aftershocks of a natural disaster.
- Forces of nature have halted invading armies, prompted political change, and united bitter enemies.
- Too young to die? There are 72 juvenile offenders on death row. The Supreme Court is set to decide whether executing them amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
- Utah: the perfect genetics lab: big families, Mormon Church records, and even 19th-century polygamy are proving a boon to the study of genes and genealogy.
- Climbing blind: in Tibet, where the blind are treated as outcasts, six blind teenagers set an improbable record trekking through the Himalayas.
- 1965: at last, freedom to vote: forty years ago, police attacks on civil rights protesters in Alabama led to passage of the Voting Rights Act.
- The gym is brought to you by ... high school athletics are finding new fans in corporate sponsors.
- 15 cents for foreign aid, 60 cents for soda.
- At the movies: commercials without a mute button.
- Focus on energy independence.
- Should naturalized citizens be President? The constitution says that on 'natural-born' citizens can be President. Should we change that?
- A teenage athlete deals with Bulimia.
- Cartoons.