Vol. 139 No. 8, January 2007
Index
- Game show.
- Letter from the editor.
- The military draft.
- Photos of Martian.
- Who gets naming rights?
- Beyond Superman and Batman.
- Football, the Navajo way.
- Numbers in the news.
- China's Wikipedia watch.
- Noted & quoted.
- Putting the web to work for Darfur.
- A symbol of hope comes down.
- Far from home.
- Seduced by snacks? Not you.
- Fair play? James Madison University's decision to eliminate 10 sports teams--mostly men's--to comply with a federal "gender equity" law is the latest chapter in the debate over the fairness of Title IX.
- It's a good thing citizens aren't tested: the new test for becoming a U.S. citizen is a lot harder. Could the average American pass?
- New congress, old issues: power shifted on Capitol Hill when Democrats took control of both the House and Senate in November's midterm elections. But the issues facing Congress and the nation are just as tough as they were last year.
- Is it time to bring back the draft? As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on and recruiting volunteers gets harder, the idea of a military draft seems less far-fetched.
- Darfur: the genocide continues: more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced during three years of ethnic conflict in Darfur. Now, the violence is spreading and threatening the stability of neighboring countries.
- NHI's Vietnam: Vietnam now has one of the world's fastest-growing economies. For young people like Nguyen Song Nhi, 16, the "American War" is ancient history; their focus is on the future.
- How the Middle East got that way: the seeds of much of the conflict in the Mideast today were planted by Britain and its Allies after World War I, when they carved up the remains of the Ottoman Empire.
- Should the U.S. raise the gas tax? Most Americans agree the U.S. needs to reduce its dependence on foreign oil; the question is how to do it.
- A homecoming in Havanna: Elena Sheppard didn't think much about her Cuban heritage until she visited the country her mother left decades earlier.
- Katrina's refugees 'stuck in limbo'.
- Micro-loans are good, Wal-Mart is even better.
- Thriving in the global economy: what China and the U.S. must do.