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May 2006 Issue


	SPECIAL REPORT--ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN POSSIBILITIES Introduction The Editor A Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Nancy Salvato Hamas Must Renounce Violence to Gain Credibility Alon Ben-Meir Divided Israeli Voters Clear the Way for Disengagement Mahir Ali Bridges of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue and Respect Gul Rukh Rahman and Ari Alexander ANALYSIS Survey Gauges Countries' Clout in Competition John Zaracostas Italy's Unstable Political Future: A Look at the Divisive Italian Elections Angela Boskovitch Germany's Crisis-Ridden Socialists Stefan Nicola Putin's War With Radical Islamists Dmitry Shlapentokh COMMENTARY Christian Convert Saved From the Gallows A. H. Jaffor Ullah The Real French Political Crisis Martin Walker ECONOMIC WATCH How Malaria Keeps Africa Down Integrated Regional Information Networks FEATURE Familiar Drought Haunts the Horn of Africa Betsy Pisik EU Hears the Plight of North Korea's Refugees Satoshi Ogawa MEDIA IN REVIEW Freedom of Expression in a Liberal Democratic Society Christine Gilmore
	CAREERS Risky Business: Firemen, Police Trained to Override Threats and Fears Shelley Widhalm HEALTH Okinawa�s Summer Heat Brings Hazards Fred Zimmerman Therapeutic Riding Aids Disabled Children--Mind, Body, and Soul Shelley Widhalm HOME Couple Saves Energy With Hillside Home Ann Geracimos PASTIMES The Power of Reading: Reading and Companionship Donald E. Howard PATHWAYS Shankar: Humanitarian Holy Man Robert R. Selle TRAVEL Michigan: Detroit, a Personal Journey Petula Brown Galapagos: Come for the Tortoises, Stay for Ecuador's Old Spanish Charm Fred J. Eckert
	REVIEWS A Window on Resolving World Conflicts Mwelwa C. Musambachime MANAGING ARMED CONFLICTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram (eds.) An English Boy's Happy Hong Kong Childhood Roger K. Miller GOLDEN BOY: MEMOIRES OF A HONG KONG CHILDHOOD Martin Booth Murder in Rural Kansas: Revisiting Capote's In Cold Blood Stephanie Deutsch A Darkly Fascinating Antihero of the Fourteenth Century Muriel Dobbin THE DEVIL'S BROKER: SEEKING GOLD, GOD AND GLORY IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY ITALY Frances Stonor Saunders When Manhattan Ruled the World of Art Joseph Phelan NEW ART CITY: MANHATTAN AT MID-CENTURY Jed Perl Baseball's Power--And Its Drugs Larry Thornberry JUICING THE GAME: DRUGS, POWER, AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Howard Bryant The Many Things That Went Wrong at AT&T Mark A. Kellner END OF THE LINE: THE RISE AND FALL OF AT&T Leslie Cauley WRITERS AND WRITING H.G. Wells: Prophet Without Honor Michael Timko

ARCHITECTURE
New City Designs Possible for New Orleans
Deborah K. Dietsch

EXHIBITION
Innovative and Irreverent Dada
National Gallery of Art

PERSPECTIVES
A Life in the Louvre: Marie de Medicis
Guylaine Spencer

PHOTOGRAPHY
In Avedon�s American West
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

THEATER
Play Looks at Women's Obsession With Body Image
Jayne Blanchard

AT THE EDGE
DNA Chips Help Attach Biological Cells to Non-Biological Surfaces
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Inside the Quantum Atom Revolution
Richard LLewellyn Lewis, PhD

NATURE WALK
Grapes! Our Never-Ending Crush
Marcia Wood, Laura McGinnis, and Jim Core

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Battling Malaria, a 'Wily Beast'
Integrated Regional Information Networks

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Andrew Lawson: Discoverer of the San Andreas Fault
John Dvorak

COMMUNITY
The Healing Economy as a Remedy for Poverty and Conflict
Storm Cunningham

CROSSROADS
An American Doctor in Nepal
George and Berwyn Moore
Sindh's Stolen Brides: Hindu Girls Are Being Forced Into Islam
Mariana Baabar

PATTERNS
Too White to Be Black--The Challenges of Albinism
Integrated Regional Information Networks

PEOPLES
Living Among the Akha, Thailand's Largest Hill Tribe
Antonio Graceffo

ESSAYS
Religious Tolerance vs. Muslim Rage
Lloyd Eby
Good Character From a Spiritual Perspective
Kevin McCarthy