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Articles in Dec 10, 2001, issue of Insight on the News
- Free congress foundation will be more wary in the future
by Hans S. Nichols - Worse than we thought: a reporter spent a year at a midwestern high school to find out firsthand what's happening in America's classrooms. She found `a malaise, a low-lying depression all the time.'
by Julia Duin - Mark my words … I mean what I say
- Coverage tactics draw media into line of fire
by Warren D. Johnson - Automated systems aren't the only things escaping grasp of INS
by Sean Paige - Sudden surge in interest in near East: Americans are enrolling in courses on Islam, Arabic and international relations
by Julia Duin - Reza Pahlavi pulls for democracy: the heir to the Iranian throne says that providing political freedom and real economic oppurtunity to repressed peoples is the best way to defeat terrorism
by Ted Hayes - Terrorists could use railcars as vehicles of destruction
by Arlene Miller - Daniels is thriving in the lion's den
by Sean Paige - U.S. borders prove porous: legal and illegal foreign residents represent a 57 percent increase in the immigrant population
by August Gribbin - Q: should the United Nations support more family-planning services for poor countries?
by Werner Fornos - Open eyes to immigration policy before it's too late
by Donald Haverstrom - A renewal of anxieties
by Paul M. Rodriguez - Bigger better? Terrorism has ignited debate about the future of tall buildings in America
by Julia Duin - In the shadow of August 1914
by Rand H. Fishbein - Ecoterrorism: An overlooked threat to the United States
by Paul (American choreographer) Taylor - What role did sex have to play in terrorists' hostility?
by Mary Greene - Rumsfeld: plaques of biblical job: Donald Rumsfeld inherited a demoralized military where warrior qualities had lost out to political correctness. Today, he is winning on two fronts: Afghanistan and the Pentagon
by J. Michael Waller - Afghan exiles also pray for fall of Taliban: refugees struggling to survive in Pakistan long to return to a country free of extremism and with a chance to work and study
by Willis Witter - A letter from the editor
by Paul M. Rodriguez - Red cross feathers its own nest first: after receiving $546 million to aid victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Red Cross admits giving only the equivalent of two weeks' financial assistance to families
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara - Web wise: Smart cybersurfers choose the right search engine for specific research projects
by Christian Toto - Media engaged in game of chicken little
by Jamie Dettmer - Winning seems to require having luck on your side
by Stephen Goode - Preparing for patient zero: the government must prepare for the possibility of a terrorist-unleashed smallpox epidemic that could kill millions and overwhelm the U.S. health-care system
by Timothy W. Maier - Skaggs says it's no time for hoaxes
by John Elvin - Terrorists from the '60s are celebrated today
by Wood West - Wise wisecracks from a great wit, Mark Twain
by Stephen Goode - Present, but unaccounted for: the whereabouts of thousands of foreign students in the U.S. are unknown because of an outdated tracking system and because schools fought requests for data
by Sheila R. Cherry - Too bad we can't define some of these stories as hoaxes
- New study finds American high schools fail to graduate one in four students
by Hans S. Nichols - Tennessee tax fight a warning to others: Tennesseans of all political stripes are taking sides on a proposal to implement a state income tax. Spenders have run up a huge $1 billion state budget shortfall
by Tony Hays - Readin', writin' and radicalism
- Saudis head home
by Hans S. Nichols - Cold war in the hot zone: U.S. experts are reviewing the germ-warfare capabilities of other countries, including Russia, which once had the biggest biological-weapons program in the world
by Nicholas Kralev - Religious repression still rules in Vietnam
by John Elvin