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November  2004  Issue
 
 

 
SPECIAL REPORT--USING TECHNOLOGY TO BUTTRESS HOMELAND SECURITY
Introduction
The Editor
Policy, Not Technology, Creates Barriers to Information Sharing
Shaun Waterman
Chicago's Video-Camera Network Will Provide Thousands of ''Eyes''
Al Swanson
Tiny Chips Could Pay Big Antiterrorism Dividends
Gene Koprowski

ANALYSIS
Chicago's School-Privatization Plan
Al Swanson
Burundi Inching Closer to Ending Long Civil War
Carter Dougherty
Putin Uses Chechens' Attacks to Boost His Own Power
David R. Sands

COMMENTARY
Preparing Prison Inmates for Reentry Into Society
Pat Nolan
Democracy Yes, but How?
William Fisher

ECONOMIC WATCH
Growth That's No Fun
Martin Hutchinson

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
Assisted Suicide Returns to the Spotlight
Michael Kirkland

FORUM
73 Percent of World's Workers Have a Weak Employment Safety Net
John Zarocostas

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Where the Media Do Badly--and Well
Georgie Anne Geyer

 

 
HEALTH
Alert Anesthesia: Patients Have No Memory of Surgery
Ann Geracimos

PETS
Exotic Pets: Permits Differ by State and Locality
Christian Toto

SPORTS
Athletics Versus Academics: NCAA Aims to Raise Graduation Rates Among Athletes
Jon Siegel

TRAVEL
Budapest Baths
Claire Hopley
Cruise Ships Tempt Passengers to Stay Aboard With New Amenities
Candyce H. Stapen
Where Earth Bubbles and Bars Rumble (In Iceland, Steam Heat Is Natural)
Sean Green

 

 
REVIEWS
Does Chechnya Signal Russia's Breakup?
Graham Dyson
THE CHECHEN WARS: WILL RUSSIA GO THE WAY OF THE SOVIET UNION?
Matthew Evangelista

A Tale of Heroism in Czechoslovakia's ''Velvet Revolution''
Vera Laska
FIELDS OF LIGHT: A SON REMEMBERS HIS HEROIC FATHER
Joseph Hurka

The Amazing Brain: Is Neuroscience the Key to What Makes Us Human?
Richard Restak
A BRIEF TOUR OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
V.S. Ramachandran

Pursuing Peace
Rene V.L. Wadlow
THE COURAGE FOR PEACE
Louise Diamond

Memoir of a Mover and Shaker
Jeffrey Marsh
INSIDE: A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE
Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Finding Holy Visions, Rejecting Fraudulent Ones
Bart McDowell
THE MIRACLE DETECTIVE: AN INVESTIGATION OF HOLY VISIONS
Randall Sullivan

In Ascending the Political Ladder, Teddy Roosevelt Stuck to His Principles
Michael P. Riccards
I ROSE LIKE A ROCKET: THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Paul Grondahl
THE ROUGH RIDERS
Theodore Roosevelt
LETTERS AND SPEECHES
Theodore Roosevelt

A Little-Known Founder of the European Scientific Revolution
Surekha Vijh
THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: THE MAN WHO MEASURED LONDON
Lisa Jardine

 

 
 
   

 
ACTING
Honoring James Garner
Pat Nason

AMERICANA
Beautiful Dreamer: Shedding New Light on Stephen Foster's Legend
Scott Galupo

ART
Patrick Shelley's Good Earth
Herb Greer
30 Works Show Cruelty in Apartheid South Africa
Joanna Shaw-Eagle

CABARET
80-Year-Old Piano Legend Bobby Short
Robyn-Denise Yourse

MUSIC APPRECIATION
Behind Johnny Ramone's Guitar Blitzkrieg, a Proud, Gracious Man
Steve Miller

 

   
AT THE EDGE
An "On-Off Switch" to Make Useful Buckyballs Almost Nontoxic
Phil Berardelli

NATURE WALK
A Startling New Marine Habitat in Alaska
United Press International Staff Writer

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
The Promise of Modern Phytotherapy
Dan Kenner
New Research Holds Hope for Rare Disorders
Joyce Howard Price

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
More Caribbean Hurricanes – But Not From Global Warming
Dan Whipple

 

   
ANOMALIES
India's Girl-Feticide Boom
Devinder Sharma

CROSSROADS
North Korean Defectors Painfully Adjust to Life in the South
Andrew Salmon

CULTURE IN FLUX
Women in Mosque and Society
Anwar Iqbal

HISTORY
Tsuneko, Heroine of the Untold World War II Tsushima Maru Tragedy
Dave Bartruff

LANGUAGE
Whither English?: Language Shifts With Cultural Changes
Jen Waters

 

   
ESSAYS
The Masters We Serve: The Gene and the Meme in Human Affairs
Alan R. Kahn and Kris Austen Radcliffe
'Making Special': An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art
Ellen Dissanayake
A New Era of Western-Islamic Cooperation by Support for Community Development
Jason Ben-Meir

 
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