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April 2005 Issue

	Alleviating a Drug Scourge LETTERS TO THE EDITOR -- A Superb Holocaust Article -- America Needs a Fresh Start With Iran, Beyond Nuclear Power -- Sailor Refuses to Deploy to the Persian Gulf
	SPECIAL REPORT--EUROPE'S IMMIGRATION PROBLEM Introduction The Editor Holland's Tolerance Is Tested Tom Carter Switzerland's Love-Hate Affair With Immigrants Tom Carter The Italian Dilemma: Another Wave of Immigrants Washes Ashore Tom Carter ANALYSIS Tunisian Vote Spurs Concern in Washington Andrew Borowiec America's Quietly Consummated Missile Defense System Bill Gertz As the Wheel Turns: U.S. Automakers Struggle to Hold On to Market Share Tom Ramstack ECONOMIC WATCH EU May One Day Choke Due to Overexpansion Martin Hutchinson EYE ON THE HIGH COURT Justices in No Hurry on Gay Rights Issue Michael Kirkland FEATURE -- RUSSIA'S TERRORIST HORROR Neighbors, Worlds Apart: Beslan Siege Widens Divide in Caucasus David R. Sands Horror, Frozen in Time: For Beslan, Grief Is Inconsolable David R. Sands FOCUS Bank Focuses on the Human Side of Development in the Philippines Marc Lerner Clothing Donations Bypass the Needy and Hurt African Textile Industries Marion Baillot MEDIA IN REVIEW--DEVELOPMENTS IN MIDDLE EAST MEDIA New Arab Media May Spur Suspicion of the West as They Promote Democracy Edmund Ghareeb Israeli Media Arrived at Revulsion Over Reporting the Intifada Nathan Guttman
	COMMUNITY U.S. Communities Open Hearts to Hurt Vets Sarah Hoffman HEALTH Do-It-Yourself Diagnosis on the Internet Christian Toto Myths and Truths About Tonsils Ann Geracimos HOME Decorative Table Settings Provide a Feast for the Eyes Ann Geracimos TRAVEL Chasing Memories on the Isle of Wight Herb Greer Northwest: Enjoying the Glorious Hells Canyon Wilderness Steven Hoffman The Peaceful, Charming Little Island of Anguilla J.M. Eddins Jr.
	REVIEWS The Best of Poets Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams Vincent D. Balitas AMY LOWELL Edited by Honor Moore WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Edited by Robert Pinsky Noting Black Civil War Heroes and the Injustices They Faced Alan Gropman AFTER THE GLORY: THE STRUGGLES OF BLACK CIVIL WAR VETERANS Donald R. Shaffer Two Works by a World-Renowned Polish Author Eric Wargo BACACAY Witold Gombrowicz POLISH MEMORIES Witold Gombrowicz From Byron to Barbarism: The Breadth of Essayist Christopher Hitchens Martin Walker LOVE, POVERTY AND WAR: JOURNEYS AND ESSAYS Christopher Hitchens A 'Communal' Approach to Teaching T. Mathai Thomas THE COURAGE TO TEACH: EXPLORING THE INNER LANDSCAPE OF A TEACHER'S LIFE Parker J. Palmer The Body That Brought South Africa Together Clyde S. Precise THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH COMMISSION: THE POLITICS OF RECONCILIATION Dorothy C. Shea WRITERS AND WRITING The Voice of Spanish Memory: A Profile of Antonio Munoz Molina Thilo Ullmann

ART
Rubens: The Great Fleming
Herb Greer

EXHIBITION
Alexander the Great's Decadence and Warlikeness on Display
Frederick M. Winship

MUSIC
Underappreciated Ringo Starr, the Beat of the Beatles, Changed Rock
James Rosen

SCULPTURE
Archeologists May Have Found the 985-Foot-Long 'Sleeping Buddha'
Maseeh Rahman

THEATER
New Drama Traces Frankenstein's Origins
Frederick M. Winship

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Developing Computers That Read Emotion and Express It
Ann Geracimos

NATURE WALK
In Hibernation, Animals' Metabolism Slows, Then Springs Back
Shelley Widhalm

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Brush Overgrowing Tundra in the Arctic
Dan Whipple

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Physics and Compassion: The World as Einstein Saw It
Rasoul Sorkhabi

CIVIL WAR
Battlefield Corpses Were Treated With Respect
Charles A. Jones

CROSSROADS
One Hope at a Time: Building Afghanistan's Future Through Microfinance
Joyce B. Lehman
Christian Arabs in Mideast Find Themselves in Peril
Youssef M. Ibrahim

HERITAGE
Avignon's 'Odd Couple': The Popes and Jews of Medieval Provence
Dave Bartruff

PEOPLES
Uganda Draws Back From the AIDS Brink
Chris Baryomunsi, A. B. T. Byaruhanga-Akiiki, and Robert S. Kittel

ESSAYS
How a 'Virtuous' Media Can Promote World Peace
John O'Sullivan
Internet Politics and the Creation of a Virtual World
Daaim Shabazz
Principles for Literacy and Conflict Resolution
Jones Kyazze