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February 2006 Issue


	SPECIAL REPORT--FREE TRADE FRACAS Introduction The Editor How the Global Free Trade Alliance Enhances America's Overall Trading Strategy Edwin J. Feulner, John C. Hulsman, and Brett D. Schaefer Free Trade Is Not Necessarily Fair Trade Kathleen Hwang The China-India-Brazil Bloc Complicates Trade Politics Martin Walker The Negative Impact of Trade Pacts on Society and Health in the Americas Miguel San Sebastian and Anna-Karin Hurtig COMMENTARY Capitalism Chinese Style Peter Morici A New Terror Strategy for NATO Edward L. Rowny EDUCATION WATCH Will Universal Preschool Give All Kids a Head Start? Wendy McElroy FEATURE Picking Up the Pieces: One Year After the Tsunami Mridu Khullar Venezuelan Citizens Train to Fight U.S. 'Invasion' Jens Erik Gould Aid Groups Bring Relief to Afghans Katherine Clad GIs Likely to Be Shifted From U.S. Allies to Hawaii and Guam Richard Halloran A Rising South Africa Is a 'Catalyst' for the Continent's Progress Norman Levine Uncertainty Prevails on Sports DNA Tests Bob Cohn MEDIA IN REVIEW The Dumbing Down of the Media Arnaud de Borchgrave
	EDUCATION College Life a Test in Itself: Freshmen Adjust to Its Rhythms Julia Neyman HOBBY The Job and the Joy of Beekeeping Shelley Widhalm HOME Dazzling Variety Available for Kitchen Counter Tops Ann Geracimos PASTIMES An Ohio Entrepreneur's Amazing Museum of Magic Kym Kuenning PATHWAYS Women in Midlife Look for Happiness in New Ways of Expression Gabriella Boston SERVICE One Man's Giant Global Operation for Distributing Donated Medical Supplies Peggy Yujiri TRAVEL Genoa's Sunny Ways and Opulent Palaces Richard Slusser New York: The Big Apple on a Budget Petula Brown
	REVIEWS The Central Asia Power Game Among Iran, Russia, and Turkey Tinatin Bochorishvili REGIONAL SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL ASIA: THE COMPETITION OF IRAN, TURKEY, AND RUSSIA Hooman Peimani Seeking to End Ethnic Wars Rene Wadlow ETHNICITY AND INTRA-STATE CONFLICTS: TYPES, CAUSES AND PEACE STRATEGIES Hakan Wiberg and Christian Scherrer, eds. Dogs and Humans Together Steve Goode FIRST FRIEND: A HISTORY OF DOGS AND HUMANS Katharine M. Rogers A Marielita Describes Her Taking Leave of Cuba Tom Carter FINDING MANANA: A MEMOIR OF A CUBAN EXODUS Mirta Ojito Nabokov's Power Hangs on Lolita Stefan Sullivan Is U.S. Economic Dominance Ending? A.G. Gancarski THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Thomas L. Friedman City Life a Thousand Years Ago Steve Goode A DAY IN A MEDIEVAL CITY Chiara Frugoni WRITERS AND WRITING T.S. Eliot: Pioneer of Modernism Surekha Vijh

ART
An American Impressionist Trained in Russia
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto
The Dark Side of Andy Warhol
Joanna Shaw-Eagle

CRAFT & DESIGN
Central Asian Clothing: Nineteenth-Century Silk and Leather
Joanna Shaw-Eagle

FILM
'Unseen Cinema' a Trove of Ideas
Gary Arnold

MUSIC
Cream's Clapton, Bruce, and Baker: Reinventors of the Blues
Dan Campbell

AT THE EDGE
Tiny Bubbles Inside Rock Yield a Treasure Chest of Knowledge
Susan Trulove

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Laying the Foundations for a ''Quantum Computer''
Max Planck Society (original work by Stefan Nubmann, Karim Murr, Markus Hijkema, Bernhard Weber, Axel Kuhn, and Gerhard Rempe)

NATURE WALK
Researchers Probe to See if Animals Give Early Warning of Disasters
Jen Waters

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Junk Science: Twenty-first Century Snake Oil
Nancy Salvato
Uncovering the Pineapple's Genetic Secrets
Marcia Wood

PATTERNS
Age Discrimination Is Sapping Japan's Work Force
Takehiko Kambayashi
'Participatory Development' Programs Help in Iraq and Morocco
Jason Ben-Meir

PEOPLES
Four Cultures Intertwine Among Southeast Asia's Remarkable Cham Muslims
Antonio Graceffo
New Trend in Ramallah: 'Girls Only' Cyber Cafes
Yasser Baraka

ESSAYS
Hate's Inevitable Harvest: Sources of and Solutions for Middle East Hatred
Don Losman
The Complex Ties Between Capitalism and Christianity
Doug Bandow
Religious Freedom as a Way to World Peace
Dan Fefferman