Vol. 144 No. 8, January - January 2012
Index
- Upside down and blindfolded.
- Why the SAT stops traffic in Seoul.
- 4.7 degrees of separation?
- A new take on blind dates.
- Dorm room deluxe.
- $2.16 million.
- 15.
- 18%.
- 200,000.
- 27.
- 6.5 million.
- New rules on who rules.
- The Titanic turns 100.
- Fair play? Oscar Pistorius wants to run in the 2012 Olympics. But some say his artificial legs give him an unfair advantage.
- Locked away forever: the Supreme Court is considering whether life without parole for teens who've committed murder is a "cruel and unusual" punishment.
- Obama: pass or fail? When a president runs for a second term, the election is usually about the job he's done so far. What grade will voters give President Obama?
- Primary matters: how Republicans will choose President Obama's opponent in November.
- Scenes from the border: illegal immigration from Mexico continues to be a big issue in the U.S. But who is crossing the border--and why--may surprise you.
- Putin on the ropes: Vladimir Putin wants to remain in power for another 12 years, but are Russians hungry for real democracy?
- 1852: did a novel start the Civil War? Published 160 years ago, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin captivated--and bitterly divided--America.
- Chinese-born, American-made: Melanie Barnett's birth parents could keep only one of their newborn twins. They chose her brother, and her long journey began.
- Is it OK to post fake reader comments on my magazine's blog? As a college journalism major, I was thrilled to land an internship at a national magazine. My editor asked me to post comments on one of the magazine's blogs and to write in a style that suggested I was a reader. That felt wrong to me. Advice?
- Should the prison at Guantanamo be closed? In the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to close the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. It turned out to be trickier than he thought.
- Cartoons.