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Awaiting Armageddon: Is the Paranoia Justified? John L. Scherer
Category: Worldview Published: January 2004
"No one can say that major incidents never again will occur in the U.S., but successful attacks are much more difficult than people realize."
 
Balancing the Budget Via Veto Anthony W. Hawks
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2004
". . . A new set of checks and balances effctively would be created: Congressional spending would be checked by the president's reduction veto power, and abuse . . . Would be balanced by Congress' ability to cancel the power with a budget surplus."
 
Cynical Media Is Not Playing Fair Brit Hume
Category: Mass Media Published: January 2004
". . . When it comes to the exercise of American power in the world, particularly military power, thre seems to be a suspicion among those in the media--indeed, a suspicion bordering on a presumption--of illigetimacy, incompetence, and ineffectiveness."
 
Diane Arbus' Revelations of Life
Category: Focus on America Published: January 2004
Her "gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar continues to challenge our assumptions about the nature of everyday life and compels us to look at the world in a new way."
 
Disney World Rockets Into the 21st Century Stacey Eager Leavitt
Category: Going Places Published: January 2004
A futuristic space attraction, another visually astounding vacation village, and a dazzling fireworks display keep folks clamoring for the magic only Disney delivers.
 
Do Blacks Deserve a National Apology? Carol M. Swain
Category: American Thought Published: January 2004
Should today's citizenry be held morally and financially accountable for the misdeeds of America's forefathers?
 
Education Interventions: Possibilities for Improvement? Steven Riczo
Category: Education Published: January 2004
"It certainly would be legitimate for taxpayers--who foot the bill for the 90% of students who attend pubilc schools--to ask why, after three decades of reform, there is no measurable progress."
 
Felons Deserve the Right to Vote Elizabeth Hull
Category: Law & Justice Published: January 2004
"Disenfranchisement laws not only are unfair, they are undemocratic and injurious. They compromise the country's political legitimacy and its moral authority to exact obedience and loyalty from those it presumes to represent."
 
Fossil Fuel's Fear Factor Devra Davis
Category: Ecology Published: January 2004
"Because our environment is so much cleaner today than in previous decades, it is too easy to think of pollution as something far away, in the past, afflicting some distant land we will never see, or as a tragedy that will happen to someone else."
 
How Manet Saw the Sea Douglas Druick , Gloria Groom
Category: Museums Today Published: January 2004
The burgeoning French seaside resort culture produced an aesthetic exploration by the artist and his contemporaries that helped usher in the vanguard painting of the Impressionist movement.
 
Iraq: Should We Stay or Should We Go? Ebrahim Moosa
Category: Worldview Published: January 2004
It may be time for the U.S. to cut its losses in the Middle East by accelerating the process of American troop withdrawal to coincide with the takeover by a sovereign interim Iraqi government.
 
Natural Selection vs. Intelligent Design Michael Ruse
Category: Religion Published: January 2004
"Religion cannot and should not stand still. The Copernican Revolution may have been uncomfortable, but realizing that we are not the center of a tight little universe is a challenge that can only make religion stronger. The same is true of evolution."
 
PowerPhrases: The Key to Winning Respect Meryl Runion
Category: Life in America Published: January 2004
Saying what you mean and meaning what you say can help you become heard.
 
Surveying the Global Marketplace Murray Weidenbaum
Category: Economics Published: January 2004
"Half of Xerox's employees work on foreign soil and less than half of Sony's employees are Japanese. More than 50% of IBM's revenues originate overseas; the same is true for Citigroup, ExxonMobil, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, and many other corporate giants.
 
The Art of Managing Conflict Howard M. Guttman
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2004
It does no good to run away from disagreement and discord. Confronting conflict head-on will make any organization run smoother.
 
The Commercialization of Farming: Producing Meat for a Hungry World Danielle Nierenberg
Category: Science & Technology Published: January 2004
Change "will require a rethinking of our relationship with livestock and the price we are willing to pay for safe, sustainable, humanely-raised food."
 
The Devastating Toll of Alzheimer's Disease on Patients and Caregivers William Theis
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2004
"The impact of the disease extends well beyond those who have it. . . . At least 70% of those stricken live at home, where their families provide 75% of the needed care."