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January 2006 Issue


	SPECIAL REPORT--'WINNING' IN IRAQ Does the World Want America to Leave Iraq? Dmitry Shlapentokh Introduction The Editor Dispelling the Myths About Iraq James Phillips The Follies of Democratic Imperialism Omar G. Encarnacion ANALYSIS The Dilemma of Latin American Integration Armando Anel India Warms to Pakistani President Maseeh Rahman COMMENTARY How Russia Could Become a Significant Power Again Mark N. Katz Venezuela as the Success of Defiance Jephraim P. Gundzik EDUCATION WATCH U.S. College Degrees in the Qatari Desert Roland Flamini EYE ON THE HIGH COURT States Rush to Counter Court's Ruling on Eminent Domain Joyce Howard Price FEATURE How Some Developing Countries Are 'Leapfrogging' to Cutting-Edge Technology Jamais Cascio A Staggering Birthrate Decline Clouds Europe's Future David R. Sands Mongolia's Activists Help Sow Seeds of Democracy in North Korea Bill Gertz POINT-COUNTERPOINT--SHOULD ILLICIT DRUGS BE LEGALIZED? Legalization: Panacea or Pandora's Box? The National Center on Addition and Substance at Columbia University Veteran Cops Against the Drug War Peter Gorman
	ADVENTURE Climbing China's Sacred Mount Taishan Joyce Major CAREER Authors and Authors-to-Be Hone Their Skills in Classes and Workshops Jen Waters EDUCATION The Real Skinny on Research Skills Margaret Montet FAMILY Low-Income Men Change Their Lives to Become Dads Denise Barnes HEALTH Various Methods Treat Heavy-Metal Toxins in the Body Jen Waters SERVICE Teens Play Key Role in Sister-City Program to Restore War Zones Gordon Feller TRAVEL Peru's Amazing Amazonica: Nature Travelers Find Comforts in Rain-Forest Cabins Richard Slusser California: Santa Barbara's Perfect Delights - Climate, Wine, and Beach Corinna Lothar
	REVIEWS How U.S. Intelligence Could Have Prevented 9/11 Gordon L. Anderson BREAKDOWN: THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE TO DEFEAT GLOBAL TERROR Bill Gertz A Recent History of India's Diplomacy Rene Wadlow DIPLOMACY OF INDIA: THEN AND NOW Harish Kapur The Science Behind Foods and the Ways to Cook Them Jeffrey Marsh WHAT EINSTEIN TOLD HIS COOK 2: THE SEQUEL: FURTHER ADVENTURES IN KITCHEN SCIENCE Robert L. Wolke How the French Hindered the American Revolution Robert M. Smalley THE FRENCH WAR AGAINST AMERICA: HOW A TRUSTED ALLY BETRAYED WASHINGTON AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS Harlow Giles Unger Louis vs. Schmeling: Behind the Celebrated Rivalry of Two 20th-Century Heavyweights Lyn Nofziger RING OF HATE: JOE LOUIS VS. MAX SCHMELING: THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY Patrick Myler Learning to Read Good Poetry as It Should Be Read Larry Thornberry BREAK, BLOW, BURN: CAMILLE PAGLIA READS 43 OF THE WORLD'S BEST POEMS Camille Paglia How Abstract Utopianism Dangerously Distorts Reality William Anthony Hay THE DRAGONS OF EXPECTATION: REALITY AND DELUSION IN THE COURSE OF HISTORY Robert Conquest WRITERS AND WRITING Charles Dickens and Slavery Michael Timko

ART
Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
Jane Kallir
The Monk's Masterpieces: Fra Angelico's Moving Art in a Groundbreaking Exhibit
Joanna Shaw-Eagle

CRAFT AND DESIGN
Glassmaking and the Tradition of Orrefors
Fred Stern
A Century in Silver
Deborah K. Dietsch

MUSIC
The Neglected Era Between Elvis and the Beatles Gets Its Due
Scott Galupo

AT THE EDGE
Can an Electron be in Two Places at the Same Time?
Max Planck Society

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Under a Microscope, Seeing Is Truly Believing
Jen Waters

IMPACTS
Researcher Develops What May Become a Cancer 'Nanobomb'
Neil Thomas

SCIENCE AND ETHICS
Pros and Cons of Tinkering With Crop Genetics
Shelley Widhalm

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Plant-Medicine Magic
Peter Gorman

CROSSROADS
Creating Development and Peace Through Fisheries Training
Edgardo O. Castro

HERITAGE--JEFFERSON'S CHALLENGES
Clash of the Kinsmen Still Echoes Today
Lyman B. Coddington
To The Shores of Tripoli: America's First Overseas Conflict
Dave Bartruff

PATTERNS
A Case of Anti-Christianity in Indonesia
Julia Duin
Ancient Practice of Female Genital Mutilation Still a Threat to Iraqi Women
Nicholas Birch

ESSAYS--BIOETHICS
Science, Politics, and the Dilemmas of Bioethics
Leon R. Kass
Of Stem Cells, Life, and Quality of Life
Leon R. Kass