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February  2007  Issue
 
 

 
SPECIAL REPORT--FUTURE SCIENCE
Introduction
The Editor
The Power and Promise of Nanotechnology
Mike Treder
Some Consumers Still Wary of GM Foods
Holli Chmela / Barbara Castleman
Talking About a Revolution
Christine Rosen
An Interview With Ray Kurzweil
Sander Olson

ANALYSIS
U.S. Rivals Eye Bolivian Gas and Minerals
Martin Arostegui
Vietnam Plays Wary Host to APEC
Thomas Abraham
Belfast, Beirut and Baghdad
Martin Sieff

COMMUNICATIONS
Egypt's Feminists Fire Back on Blogs
Joseph Mayton

ECONOMIC WATCH
The Cost of Failure: U.S.-South Korean Free-Trade Agreement
Bruce Stokes
The Drooping Dollar
Martin Walker

FEATURE
First on the Front Line in Nigeria
Patrick Bawa and Iris Meierhans
Disabled Still Face Hurdles in Job Market
John Zaracostas

MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS
Diplomacy as Afterthought Wins U.S. Few Mideast Converts
Fawaz A. Gerges

 
 
CONSUMER
The Great Gasoline Hoax: Or Was It?
Richard Bauman

LEISURE
Scuba Lessons Open Up New World
Jacquie Kubin

PATHWAYS
Welcome to School With Tre the Teacher
David Elfin

TRAVEL
Colorado: Colorado's Hogbacks
J. Antonio Pérez
Leonardo in France
Harvey Hagman
Like Wine? Then Raise a Glass in Neustadt, Germany
Scott Schonauer

TRENDS
Language Fast Track
Ann Geracimos

YOUTH
Mentors Guide Boys on Life's Path
Joyce Howard Price

 
 
REVIEWS
Remembering a Lively Writer Who Resisted Modernity
James E. Person Jr.
G. K. CHESTERTON: THINKING BACKWARD, LOOKING FORWARD
Stephen R. L. Clark

Confederate Agent in Europe Sees War of Words
Ken Kryvoruka
SECRET HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY ABROAD
William C. Davis

The Evolution of a Monster in a Portrait of Soviet Life
Sudip Bose
HOUSE OF MEETINGS
Martin Amis

Mess Is Best
Eric Wills
A PERFECT MESS: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF DISORDER -- HOW CRAMMED CLOSETS, CLUTTERED OFFICES, AND ON-THE-FLY PLANNING MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman

Dizzying Friends and Days
William H. Pritchard
PRIME GREEN: REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES
Robert Stone

A Remarkable Seventeenth-Century Hoax
Eric Wargo
THE SCARITH OF SCORNELLO
Ingrid D. Rowland

 
 
 
   

 
ART
Paul Cezanne Revolutionized Natural Form
Joanna Shaw-Eagle

CRAFT & DESIGN
Andalusia's New Golden Pottery
Tor Eigeland

DIMENSIONS
America's Favorite Bug Beats Dark Past
Stefan Sullivan

FILM
Palestinian Female Filmmakers Triumph
Rachel Shabi
'Spear' of Reconciliation
Gary Arnold

PERSPECTIVES
An Obituary for Painting
Menachem Wecker

 
   
AT THE EDGE
What is Nanotechnology?
American Elements

NATURE WALK
Butterflies... Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Bryan Reynolds
Rattlesnake Diplomacy
Maxim Kniazkov

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Real Relief From Artificial Sun
Shelley Widhalm

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
A Technological Breakthrough in Eritrea: Some Expectations
Ravinder Rena, Ph.D.

 
   
CULTURE IN FLUX
Daily Life in Kabul
Brent Lewin

FOLK WISDOM
Perpetually Modern Matsu
Richard R. Vuylsteke

HERITAGE
Saris: India’s Timeless Gift to All Women
Ramesh Avadhani

PATTERNS
Pakistan’s Child Camel Jockeys
Integrated Regional Information Networks

PEOPLES
Tibet, Tourism and Religions
William M. Reilly

 
   
ESSAYS
Making Citizens: The Case for Patriotic Assimilation
Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.

WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Russia and Energy
Introduction
Jonathan Kelly
A Russian Oil City
Ben Lando
Russia's Caucasus Choice
Paul Goble
Verdict with Chilling Fallout
Ariel Cohen
Russian Bear Sets a Trap
Richard W. Rahn

 
   

Introduction
Jonathan Kelly

BOOK REVIEWS
A Fresh Look at the Assassination Story
John Lockwood

REMEMBERING THE PAST
War's Impact Told in Family Letters
Richard Crouch

TALES OF FIRE AND STRIFE
Antietam: Eleven Hours of Fury and Death in a Cornfield
Francis P. Sempa

VOICES FROM THE WAR
Critical Points in Frederick Douglass' Life
John E. Carey

 
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