Vol. 137 No. 6, November 2004
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- News & trends.
- Wal-Mart's market (stock market, that is).
- A plane flies past large clouds of dust and smoke rising from a volcano on Grimsvotn Mountain in eastern Iceland earlier this month.
- One ID you can't lose.
- A royal burial for prized pets.
- Numbers in the news.
- Of lice and men.
- Helping Rwanda deal with its painful past.
- Noted & quoted.
- Talk radio comes to Baghdad.
- Are snoozers losers?
- Joystick wizards play for pay.
- Think before you toss.
- Wal-Mart nation? Its size, power, and low prices have helped make it an American success story. So why are some people today so fearful of War-Mart?
- A perilous journey: every year, thousands of migrants take great risks trying to get to the U.S. Here's how 205 from Ecuador began their odyssey.
- Ellis Island: the end of an era: it closed 50 years ago this month, but the entry point for millions of immigrants is alive in America's memory.
- The little Floresians: the discovery of a new species of archaic humans in Indonesia offers a whole new take on human evolution and adaptation.
- A death cult with no reason.
- On TV, juicing up replays with noise from nowhere.
- The best political news of 2004: the Afghan election.
- Should the U.S. adopt a national ID card system? Many countries issue national ID cards. Post-9/11 security concerns have prompted a debate about whether the U.S. should too.
- Cartoons.