ANALYSIS
The Elections and the Supreme Court
David C. Slade

COMMENTARY
Illiteracy in America: Plan for Lifelong Learning
Vice President Al Gore
Illiteracy in America: Educate Every Child
Gov. George W. Bush
Illiteracy in America: The View From Higher Education
Glenn M. Ricketts
Illiteracy in America: Improving American Education
Herbert London
Illiteracy in America: The Importance of Sound Research
Lynne Cheney
Illiteracy in America: An Eight-Point Attack on Illiteracy
Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake
Illiteracy in America: The Distraction of Sex in School
Kimberly Schuld
Illiteracy in America: The Structure of the Education System
John L. Conant
Stopping Illiteracy
William C. Freund

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Tom Clancy: Technothriller Creator and Freedom Advocate
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
THE U.N. MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

 

FOOD
God Walks Among the Cooking Pots: Convent Cuisine of Spain
Laura Kumin

TRAVEL
African Gateway: South Africa's Cape Town
Eric P. Olsen

REVIEWS
An African Trickster
Charles R. Larson

Life and Times of a Press Lord
Lloyd Eby

A Rich and Tangled Web
David Gress

An African Trickster
Charles R. Larson

Angels Among Us?
Brian Mccombie

Lessons From a Bootleg Community
Donald Secreast

Hollywood and the Multicultural Republic
John C. Tibbetts

CRAFT & DESIGN
Porcelain Perfect: Vienna's Augarten Manufactory
Stephen Henkin

DANCE
Dancing to Chaos: Sakiko Oshima's Wild Choreography
Susan Tenaglia

GALLERY
Howard Eberle: The Power of Simplicity
Editor

MUSIC
The Copland Century
Tom Pniewski

PERSPECTIVES
In the Wake of Homer
John Elsom

NATURE WALK
Autumn's Bounty
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE AND RELIGION: UNEASY BEDFELLOWS?
The Division of the World
James B. Miller

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Help! My Computer's Down With a Bug!
Vinod K. Jain

FOLK WISDOM
Northern Dawn: Auroras Inspire Folk Mythology
Alv Egeland

HERITAGE
City on a Hill: The White House and Capitol Building Turn 200
William S. Connery

PATTERNS
Elephant Bazaar: The Sonepur Fair in Bihar, India
Cynthia Kanetsuka

PEOPLES
In Batsirai's Classroom: An Innovative Biology Class in Zimbabwe
Scott Johnston
New Old Words: The Struggle for Norway's Nynorsk Language
Eirik Helleve