Vol. 139 No. 3, October 2006
Index
- Game show.
- Lesson plan & reproducible.
- Letter from the editor.
- Teenage steroid use.
- The science of addiction.
- What do you know about the science of addiction?
- A man basked.
- Frogs airlifted to safety.
- Numbers in the news.
- Shooting some spice into space.
- Skull overkill.
- Judge turns to child's play.
- Noted & quoted.
- Reducing road rage, one sign at a time.
- Banking for their future.
- Downloading a slice of America.
- Looking for a few big stars.
- Iraq what we're not seeing: more than 2,600 American soldiers have died in Iraq since 2003. Chances are, you haven't seen many photos like this one. David Carr explores some of the reasons why.
- Nine-year-old alone Banda works six days a week: he's one of 49 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who are forced to work for a living. While child-labor rates are falling in most of the world, they're still on the rise in Africa.
- The Reporter's Dilemma: when you're interviewing starving children, is it ethical to give them money?
- The long road back: New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are on the mend, but recovering from the wrath of Katrina will clearly take years.
- The science of addiction: what brain research tells us about drug addiction.
- Vicodin and OxyContin.
- The science of "Dread".
- It's all in the DNA: as DNA testing becomes more available, some people are checking into their ancestry and asking, What's in it for me?
- The first amendment: a user's guide the most famous words in the constitution protect a host of rights for Americans--and still spur debate after 215 years.
- 1791: The bill of rights: the constitution might never have been ratified without a promise to add safeguards of fundamental, rights.
- Should the records of ballplayers who used steroids count? As the baseball season winds down, the debate over steroid use continues to heat up.
- An American in Tehran: a 19-year-old from the Midwest who spends summers with his family in Iran talks about how Iranian teens bend the rules to have fun.
- A college town back on its feet.
- Hot shoes, cool price.
- Why the Darfur genocide isn't just another human tragedy.
- Cartoons.