Vol. 140 No. 6, November 2007
Index
- Homework for parents.
- Japan's ancient sport of sumo wrestling, like some American sports, has had its share of scandals lately.
- A bite of buffalo.
- Misfortune cookies.
- Will women take the wheel?
- Cleaning up for the team.
- Numbers in the news.
- Washington shed here.
- Technology vs. tyranny: the rulers of Myanmar and other repressive nations try to control the flow of information to keep their grip on power. But are they any match for cell phones, blogs, and YouTube?
- The other India: India's booming economy has created a huge middle class, but hundreds of millions of people still we in desperate poverty.
- Injustice in Jena? A tree, a fight, and questions of justice in a small Louisiana town.
- College hijinks? How a simple change in the way California allots its Electoral College votes could determine the outcome of the 2008 election.
- Out of it: nearly everyone knows that drug abuse impairs the way a person thinks and functions--but what are the consequences?
- From China to Houston and back: adopted from China as a baby, Anna DeSanctis wanted to do something for the orphans left behind.
- 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti: in the middle of the Red Scare, a pair of anarchists were executed on charges of robbery and murder in Massachusetts. Was justice served, or were they convicted because of their radical views?
- Debate.
- The hardest way to become a U.S. citizen: no war has produced more posthumous American citizens than the Iraq War.
- Cartoons.