Vol. 137 No. 14, May 2005
Index
- AIDS ravages Africa.
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Opinion & debate.
- The brain link: researchers have discovered an amazing connection between how the brain is involved in obesity and drug addiction.
- Correction.
- Letter from the editor.
- 'Big Mac' thrives in Russia.
- Babec, a 24-year-old silverback gorilla, was wheeled from the operating room after having his cardiac pacemaker replaced in March.
- No-drill dentistry.
- Numbers in the news.
- Smackdown 101.
- Jefferson gets a makeover.
- Noted & quoted.
- Onstage, an actor's nerves fade away.
- Can a virus hitch a ride in your car?
- Poll.
- Taking time for a cat map.
- U.S. Catholics in flux.
- G.I. robot reporting for duty: robot soldiers are a crucial part of the Army's plans for a 21st-century fighting force. But are we ready to trust machines to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield?
- Who we are now: Today's America is very different from the one your parents and grandparents knew. A few statistics tell the story of an ever-changing nation.
- In Africa, a town unravels: AIDS is rapidly stealing the life from a village in Swaziland.
- 1945: dropping the bomb: sixty years ago this August, the nuclear age began with U.S. attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Playing too hard? As young athletes train nonstop, doctors are seeing a big rise in injuries.
- After prison, it's back to shoes.
- Around the world, a shift in where faith thrives.
- In Alabama, a high school coach blows the whistle.
- An Iraqi-American teen reflects on the war.
- Was it necessary to drop the atom bomb on Japan? Sixty years later, scholars still argue about the decision to use atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a way to hasten the end of World War II.
- Cartoons.