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Articles in April 29, 2002, issue of Insight on the News

• The Muslim numbers game is subject to fuzzy math
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Death of the West
  by Rex Roberts
• New York State won't give an inch in metric battle
  by John Elvin
• Pentagon is casting a wide net to catch credit-card personal shoppers
  by Sean Paige
• A journalistic revival
  by William Murchison
• Drug smugglers are massacring dolphins
  by John Elvin
• Open-space programs feeling budget squeeze
  by Sean Paige
• Criminalizing playtime; schools are banning children from playing traditional games now deemed too violent or exclusionary. Civil-rights activists say the punishments are worse than the crimes
  by Ellen Sorokin
• Forest service violated ranchers' rights
  by John Elvin
• Middle East takes center stage
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Critics decry `free-speech zones'
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
• Broken wings: both current and former employees of DynCorp, one of the federal government's largest contractors, have accused the company of taking a fly-by-night attitude toward maintenance of military aircraft
  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
• World tribunal a done deal; the International Criminal Court is four signatories short of ratification, which could happen this April
  by Tom Carter
• Still crusading against corruption; Frank Serpico famously risked his life to break through the `blue wall of silence' and expose wrongdoing in the NYPD. Today, he still refuses to look the other way
  by Martin Edwin Andersen
• Chevron oil and the Savimbi problem; how key U.S. political figures collaborated with oil-giant Chevron, an important partner of the corrupt regime in Angola. Jonas Savimbi was assassinated and the war ended
  by James P. Lucier
• High court will hear three-strikes case
  by Michael Kirkland
• Symposium
  by Milton R. Copulos
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Troops vulnerable to missile attack; as rogue states were upgrading their theater-missile arsenals, the Clinton team thwarted U.S. deployment of the next generation of patriot antimissile batteries
  by Martin Leibstone
• Will baseball strike out again? Commissioner Bud Selig's favorite words are hope and faith. But Major League Baseball's fractious labor situation translates them as distrust and disharmony
  by Eric Fisher
• IRS prepares to intensify its kinder, gentler audits
  by Daniel J. Pilla
• Moral has changed in updated tale of the ant and grasshopper
  by Stephen Goode
• Bush team thumbs its nose at FOIA; the Bush administration has taken a hard line against releasing government records as required by law. Critics from the left and the right are responding with lawsuits
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Flow of illegals `inevitable': a Mexican agency predicts that the Mexican-born U.S. population will at least double, up to 18 million, by the year 2030
  by August Gribbin
• Conventional war-fighting remains U.S. mission
  by William R. Hawkins
• Eat, drink and be Italian or Japanese
  by Stephen Goode
• Local governments employ leaky logic; U.S. municipalities that sell their water utilities to defray the costs of upgrading infrastructure may find themselves at the mercy of multinational corporations
  by Sheila R. Cherry
• 1930 Ad
  by Joyce Howard
• Holy Land dispute could keep Saddam safe
  by Jamie Dettmer
• European Union seems determined to star in space opera
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Why didn't I think of that? Many of today's seemingly simplistic `necessities' were once just budding ideas in the minds of inventors who recognized a good opportunity when they saw one
  by Brandon Spun
• Peltier supporters plan to sue FBI agents
  by John Elvin
• French judge stands as America's secret ally
  by Kenneth R. Timmerman