Vol. 132 No. 2704, January 2004
Index
- Future forecasts for 2004 and beyond.
- Grading Bush: pass or fail.
- When is a rose a rose?
- Why war impacts women.
- Are wildfires goverment's fault?
- Fires fuel feeding frenzy.
- Married parents provide stability.
- Studying abroad still affordable.
- Interview process getting longer.
- Job surge years off.
- Kids happiest when parents play.
- Public restrooms stay clean "automatically".
- (Some) good news on job front.
- Music industry to sing a new tune.
- Perks scarce for new jobs.
- Balancing the budget via veto: "... a new set of checks and balances effectively would be created: Congressional spending would be checked by the president's reduction veto power, and abuse ... would be balanced by Congress' ability to cancel the power with a budget surplus".
- Events, candidates, and the 2004 election.
- Iraq: should we stay or should we go? It may be time for the U.S. to cut its losses in the Middle East by accelerating the process of American troop withdrawal by a soveriegn interim Iraqi government.
- Awaiting armageddon: is the paranoia justified? "No one can say that major incidents never again will occur in the U.S., but successful attacks are much more difficult than people realize.".
- Remembering "the big news".
- Cynical media is not playing fair: "... When it comes to the exercise of American power in the world, particularly military power, there seems to be a suspicion among those in the media--indeed, a suspicion bordering on a presumption--of illegitimacy, incompetence, and ineffectiveness.".
- The commercialization of farming: producing meat for a hungry world: change "will require a rethinking of our relationship with livestock and the price we are willing to pay for safe, sustainable, humanely-raised food.".
- The sovereign state of taxes.
- Surveying the global marketplace: "half of Xerox's employees work on foreign soil and less than half of Sony's employees are Japanese. More than 50% of IBM's revenues originate overseas; the same is true for Citigroup, ExxonMobil, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, and many other corporate giants.".
- Fossil fuel's fear factor: "because our environment is so much cleaner today than in previous decades, it is too easy to think of pollution as something far away, in the past, afflicting some distant land we will never see, or as a tragedy that will happen to someone else.".
- Do blacks deserve a national apology? Should today's citizenry be held morally and financially accountable for the misdeeds of America's forefathers?
- Natural selection vs. intelligent design.
- Fending off private tax collection.
- How Manet saw the sea: the burgeoning French seaside resort culture produced an aesthetic exploration by the artist and his contemporaries that helped usher in the vanguard painting of the Impressionist movement.
- Disney World rockets into the 21st century: a futuristic space attraction, another visually astounding vacation village, and a dazzling fireworks display keep folks clamoring for the magic only Disney delivers.
- Felons deserve the right to vote: "disenfranchisement laws not only are unfair, they are undemocratic and injurious. They compromise the country's political legitimacy and its moral authority to exact obedience and loyalty from those it presumes to represent.".
- Cry the beloved Cubbie.
- Educational interventions: possibilities for improvement? "It certainly would be legitimate for taxpayers--who foot the bill for the 90% of students who attend public schools--to ask why, after three decades of reform, there is no measurable progress".
- The devastating toll of Alzheimer's disease on patients and caregivers: "the impact of the disease extends well beyond those who have it ... At least 70% of those stricken live at home, where their families provide 75% of the needed care".
- Along comes another Coppola.
- PowerPhrases: the key to winning respect: saying what you mean and meaning what you say can help you become heard.
- The art of managing conflict: it does no good to run away from disagreement and discord. Confronting conflict head-on will make any organization run smoother.
- Diane Arbus': revelations of life: her "gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar continues to challenge our assumptions about the nature of everyday life and compels us to look at the world in a new way.".
- Lights out.
- Perfect practicality.
- Learning is fun.
- Let's play games.
- Cranium moments.
- Hasbro has it.
- Spring fling.
- By a whisker.
- Surviving the season.
- Modern enginuity.
- Step up.
- What time is it?
- Dry up.
- Seeing is believing.
- Toasty tootsies.
- Young swingers.
- A dentist in your suitcase?
- Holiday extension.
- Look a weigh!(What's new? Toys galore & more) (bathroom scales with a large dial)
- Shaken or stirred.
- Sweets for the sweet.
- Countertop beanery.
- Retro lava.
- Museum memo.
- Outta sight.
- The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm.
- 101 Ways To Be a Terrific Sports Parent.
- Communicating Health Personal, Cultural, and Political Complexities.
- Fundamentalism and all that jazz.