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October  2008  Issue
 
 

 
SPECIAL REPORT: The Search for Sustainability
Introduction
Nissa Lee
New Energy Frontiers Expand Global Connections
Adriana Valencia, Georg Caspary
India and Alternative Energy
Alexis Ringwald
Reintroducing Buffaloes to Thai Farms
Integrated Regional Information Networks
Time to Strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency
Ernesto Zedillo

ANALYSIS
Can the Food Supply Sustain Population Growth?
Mahir Zeynalov

ECONOMIC WATCH
Farmers Opt Out of Opium Cultivation
Integrated Regional Information Networks
Economic Slowdown to Push 100 Million Into Poverty
Integrated Regional Information Networks

HUMAN WELFARE
A Village Tries New Ideas to Beat Climate Change
Integrated Regional Information Networks
Use of Transgenic Crops Raises Questions
Mario de Queiroz

MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS
The Nuclear Renaissance
Claude Salhani

WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Understanding the Georgia-Russia Conflict
Aggressive Rhetoric and Military Action
Zoltán Dujisin
Georgia Claims Being Provoked into Ossetian Conflict Zone
Kester Kenn Klomegah
A New Cold War Threat
Ramesh Jaura
EU Takes the Diplomatic Lead
Zoltán Dujisin

 

 
CAREER
Crafting Traditional Turkish Instruments
Aysenur Bozkurt
Training Luthiers in the Brazilian Rainforest
Mario Osava
The Possibilities of Real Estate
Michele Lerner

CHILDREN
'Camp to Belong' Reunites Siblings
Gabriella Boston

HEALTH
Cosmetic Surgery on the Rise among Minorities
Ann Geracimos
The Gender Issue in Sports Training
Gabriella Boston

TRAVEL
One Woman's Lifetime of Travel
Emma C. White

 

 
BOOKS IN BRIEF
American Biographies
John M. and Priscilla S. Taylor

Back to the USSR
Joseph C. Goulden

REVIEWS
Assessing Lessons of the 20th Century
Paul Hollander
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt

The Dark Life of Haj Amin el-Husseini
Martin Sieff
Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
David G. Dalin and John F. Rothman

Deconstructing Scotland and Its Myths
William Anthony Hay
The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History
Hugh Trevor-Roper

How Interfaith Dialogue Closes Gaps
Clause R. Marx
Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America
Gustav Niebuhr

'Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?'
James Bowman
Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?
Nigel Smith

WRITERS AND WRITING
Mark Twain: The Lincoln of Our Literature
Michael Timko

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Montpelier's Restoration
Deborah K. Dietsch

EXHIBITION
A Journey from the 'Beginnings' of Wassily Kandinsky
Fred Stern
China Design Now
Cincinnati Art Museum
Promoting Environmental Conservation, without Preaching
Enrique Gili

FILM
CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'
Inter Press Service

PERSPECTIVES
Beyond Bagpipes: A Highland Fling with Scottish Culture
Guylaine Spencer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Filling Up on Hydrogen
Lowana Veal

ENDANGERED SPECIES
Saving Elephants and Communities in Mali
Integrated Regional Information Networks
Royal Bengal Tiger Population, Habitat in Danger
Integrated Regional Information Networks

IMPACTS
Consequences of Designer Ecosystems
Margaret Coulombe
Europe's Water Resources Seen at Risk
Elizabeth Bryant

 

   
LANGUAGE
Keeping Indigenous Languages Alive in Chile
Daniela Estrada

PATTERNS
Bridging the Gender Gap in Yemen's Schools
Integrated Regional Information Networks

PEOPLES
'Social Circus' Turns Young Lives Right-Side Up
Fabiana Frayssinet

TRANSPLANTATION
Mayfair to Makkah
William Facey
Filipina Migrant Workers in Bath, England
Josephine Chesterton

 

   
ESSAY
Elections in Mexico: What’s the Use?
Silvia Gómez Tagle

FEATURE
Industry v. Environment: China May Choke on Its Own Growth
Derek Scissors

 
   
BOOK REVIEW
An Imperfect Plan
John M. Taylor

REMEBERING HISTORY
Unsolved Mysteries of the Civil War
Jack Trammell

TALES OF FIRE AND STRIFE
Battle of Ox Hill
Martha Boltz

VOICES FROM THE PAST
Lyman E. Knapp: Alaska's Link to the War
Eric C. Ward

 

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