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February 2009 Issue


	SPECIAL REPORT: The Israel-Gaza Conflict Where is the Truth? Middle East Times A Plan for Gaza: Demilitarization and Internationalization Walid Phares Egyptian Journalists Assaulted by Police at Demo Joseph Mayton Gaza Explosions Reverberate in Europe Shada Islam HUMAN WELFARE Afghan Maternal Mortality Rate High James Palmer SOCIAL REPORT �I Want to Present a Different View of the Women in My Country�: An Interview with Iranian Activist Sussan Tahmasebi Omid Memarian �I Feared I Could Be Killed in the Mayhem�: An Interview with Iranian Nobel Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi Omid Memarian Masculinity Doesn't Mean Macho: An Interview with Cuban historian Julio C�sar Gonz�lez Pag�s Dalia Acosta
	CHILDREN Babies Comforted through Massage Gabriella Boston Aggression and Attracting Bullies Barry Brown COMMUNITY Rewards of Service Plentiful Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek As Retailers Suffer, Thrift Stores Thrive Timothy Warren EDUCATION 5 Things Your Teacher Wants to Tell You: One Teacher Speaks for All Helen Mondloch The Mesgana Dancers Lauren Shapiro
	REVIEWS Life with Titanic Parents, Cape Cod Martin Rubin To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod Reuel K. Wilson Finding Energy of Words and Letters Paul Dickson Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory Roy Blount Jr Driven by A Love Not Entirely Lost John Greenya The English Major Jim Harrison Power Politics over a Chessboard Doug Bandow White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson Cockeyed Strategies on Armed Conflict James Srodes Armchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Public Press, and the Rise of American Power Joel R. Davidson Chaplin Lifted Weary World's Spirits Martin Sieff Chaplin: A Life Stephen Weissman Life of 'Impresario Extraordinaire' Marion Rodgers Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business Ethan Mordden WRITERS AND WRITING Christina Georgina Rossetti Michael Timko

EXHIBITION
Love and Marriage in Renaissance Italy
Fred Stern
Cassatt Exhibit Celebrates Mother-Child Bond
Deborah K. Dietsch

FILM
Bringing Films and Filmmaking to Indigenous Argentinean Communities
Marcela Valente

MUSIC
Transformation Through Art and Music in Brazil
Mario Osava

AT THE EDGE
Good Vibrations, Sound Brain Health
Margaret Coulombe
Immortality 2.0
David Gelles

IMPACTS
A Piece of iMe: An Interview with David Chalmers
Julian Baggini

UNLOCKING THE COSMOS
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
Bill Steigerwald

HERITAGE
Uncovering Yenikapi
Richard Covington
Diary Reveals Turkish Soldiers Cared for Korean Orphans in War
Mesut �evikalp

PEOPLES
Cultural Differences: A Westerner's Sojourn among the Maasai
James Michael Dorsey

ESSAY
The Dilemma of Dealing With Terror Central
Ramesh Thakur

FEATURE
Anti-Piracy Patrols Presage Rising Naval Powers
Brian Wilson and James Kraska

BOOK REVIEW
Songwriter George F. Root Finally Gets His Due
Peter Cliffe

REMEMBERING HISTORY
When the Circus Was Big Time
Jack Trammell

TALES OF FIRE AND STRIFE
ID Disc Bears Witness to Combat Injury
Joseph Stahl

VOICES FROM THE PAST
Lincoln Diarist Remains a Mystery
John M. Taylor.