Vol. 137 No. 2, September 2004
Index
- Letter from the editor.
- A "Micro Flying Robot".
- A long-distance burger.
- A platoon of twitching noses.
- Great shakes: from the 1-4-5 to the Taliban.
- Numbers in the news.
- Cookies fit for the White House?
- Noted & quoted.
- Talking politics with Iowa's teen elector.
- Are students better, or just their grades?
- Extreme ironing gathers steam.
- Soldiers around the globe.
- Death in Darfur: a bloody conflict in western Sudan has taken the lives of thousands and threatens a million more.
- Selling the army in wartime: for many recruits, enlisting used to mean cash for college and few risks. But 9/11 and the war in Iraq have made signing up a more complicated decision.
- According to the latest poll ... These days, it's hard to turn on a TV or open a newspaper without seeing a poll. But not all polls are created equal, and it can be tricky figuring out what they really mean--if they mean anything at all.
- What's next for the Supreme Court? When the Justices return from their summer recess, they will consider the constitutionality of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. Also on the docket: the future of the Court itself.
- From boom to bust: the crash of '29: in the roaring '20s, Americans thought that the good times would last forever. Then came Black Thursday.
- Off the sidelines: cheerleading is now a varsity sport at the University of Maryland, but not everyone's cheering.
- A young scientist's life: it's not all in the lab.
- Letting the dying choose how to bid farewell.
- On social issues, Kerry is the great straddler.
- Right axis, wrong evil.
- Is the U.S. ready for electronic voting? Experts are divided over whether the benefits outweigh the security and reliability risks.
- Cartoons.