Vol. 34 No. 5, October 2002
Index
- Life after 9/11.
- 'The greatest historical work in our language.
- Letters.
- Correction.
- Illegal education? Intimidating homeschoolers.
- Persistent protesters: slamming Noriega's alma mater.
- Conventional wisdom: municipal money pits.
- Party poopers: anti-rave legislation.
- Sources.
- An Iranian court has barred Mohammad Khordadian from leaving Iran for 10 years.
- Christine Vetter is looking at five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
- Henri Dunoyer, mayor of the post resort town of La Grand-Motte in Southern France, has ordered police to stop people leaving the beach in swimwear for an odor check.
- History's dustbin: recycling cutbacks.
- I spy: nosy neighbours.
- Norway's Labor Market Administration has been looking for a few good women--10 to be exact.
- Residents of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, would be wise to register their bicycles.
- Stephen Laing bought a cabin on five wooded acres near Leyden, Massachusetts.
- The 3,000 delegates attending the U.N. World Food Summit, dedicated to fighting global hunger.
- The Kelowna Heat, a Canadian teenage girls' softball team, had everything it needed to play at a tournament in Spokane, Washington--everything except government-issued photo IDS.
- Balance sheet.
- Privacy test: medical records and the police.
- Taxing smokes.
- Bashing lawyers.
- Trashy dream houses: home and garbage.
- Making a killing in business: when crime pays, there will be plenty of criminals.
- One nation, many gods: vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state.
- Laughter in the ruins: what hasn't changed since 9/11.
- Freedom for safety: an old trade--and a useless one.
- Face the facts: facial recognition technology's troubled past--and troubling future.
- The forever war: how long can an emergency last?
- Closing the books: open government after 9/11.
- Fixing foreign policy: how the U.S. should wage the war on terror.
- You've lost your way, baby: how organized feminism has made itself irrelevant.
- Biology vs. the Blank Slate: evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works.
- Hidden country: the secret family tree of country music.
- Bitch Goddess: Ann Coulter's perverse appeal.
- Dangerous thinkers: 20th-century philosophers' love affair with totalitarianism.
- Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go bankrupt.
- Performance anxiety: the tragedy of Asian success.
- No go logo.
- The challenges of charter schools.