Vol. 137 No. 7, December 2004
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- Where the Muslims are.
- Amazing car tricks.
- Indian women display their hands.
- Dinos with down coats.
- Numbers in the news.
- Their lips are seated.
- A passion for dance, a tolerance for pain.
- Noted & quoted.
- Reality TV goes to school.
- Do penny prices make cents?
- How the nose knows a rose.
- Putting on the pounds.
- Soldiering on: six months after losing his right leg in Iraq, U.S. Army Sergeant Hilbert Caesar wheeled across the finish line of the New York City Marathon.
- Not such little women: many of America's greatest heroines were young girls who were wise beyond their years.
- An issue of identity: African and Caribbean immigration to the U.S. is spurring a debate about who qualifies as 'African-American'.
- Are Islam & democracy compatible? Democracy is taking hold in some parts of the Muslim world. But in others, especially the Middle East, the prospects are unclear.
- 1979: a glimmer of peace: Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty, spawning hopes of a broader Mideast solution.
- Cloning: a first amendment right: some legal, experts maintain that scientific research is protected by the same constitutional guarantees as freedom of speech.
- A legacy of voids & visions.
- Take a ride to exurbia: it's a new world out there.
- What if a nuclear weapon exploded in Times Square?
- 'I've started to care about my future'.
- Cartoons.