Current back issues from March 2008:
Putin stakes out new power role.(Vladimir Putin)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Russian Leader "Satisfied" with Presidential Tenure, Plans to Keep Sway as No. 2 Moscow -- Vladimir Putin held forth for nearly five hours in a valedictory Kremlin news conference, saying he hopes to serve for years as prime minister under protege Dmitry Medvedev, who is ...
Tom Lantos's liberal anti-authoritarianism.(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... My first meeting with Tom Lantos occurred when we sat next to each other at an AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] dinner in 1978. Tom was working for Senator Joe Biden as an economist, I as a defense and international affairs budget analyst with the Senate Budget Committee ....
Born Irish, but with illegal parents.(George-Jordan Dimbo)(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... DUBLIN -- Cork-born and proud of it, George-Jordan Dimbo is top to toe the Irish lad. He studies Gaelic, eats rashers, plays hurling, prays to the saints, papers his walls with parochial school awards, and spends Saturdays at the telly watching Dustin the Turkey, a wisecracking puppet, ...
Us and them: the enduring power of ethnic nationalism.(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Projecting their own experience onto the rest of the world, Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. After all, in the United States people of varying ethnic origins live cheek by jowl in relative peace. Within two or three generations of immigration, their ...
The coming revolution in Africa.(agricultural industry)(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The heat is deadening. After a morning picking cotton on the side of a hill, Souley Madi, wearing a knock-off Nike T-shirt and thongs made from discarded tires, staggers down a steep slope, a heavy bag of cotton bolls on his back. Reaching his small compound 10 minutes later, he greets his ...
Islam at the ballot box.(United Assembly for Action)(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Pakistan's election has been portrayed by the Western media as a defeat for President Pervez Musharraf. The real losers were the Islamist parties. The latest analysis of the results shows that the parties linked, or at least sympathetic, to the Taliban and al Qaeda saw their ...
Polar Bears Adrift: policy decisions put them on thin ice.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Polar bears have long inspired awe, fear--and cuddly picture books for kids. Perhaps that is why, more than anything, these snow-colored giants of the Arctic have become symbols of the environmental train wreck that looks likely at the top of the globe. For all this public ...
Security and the falling dollar.(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Every year, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is briefed by the chief of U.S. intelligence on potential threats to the nation. The list is sobering, but usually predictable and typically includes global terrorism, nuclear proliferation and regional conflicts. But this ...
HIV vaccine may never be found, warns leading scientist.(human immunodeficiency virus)(David Baltimore)
Mar 01, 2008; ... A simple injection to protect against AIDS is no closer today than it was when the virus that causes it was first identified in the early 1980s, one of the world's leading HIV experts said today. Professor David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate who is President of the American ...
Flesh made soul a new theory in the neuroscience of spiritual experience.
Mar 01, 2008; ... September 25, 1974. I am on the delivery table at a maternity hospital run by Swiss-German midwives in Bafut, Cameroon. My daughter, Abi, arrives at 1:30 a.m. but because no bed is available, I lie awake in the kerosene lamplight waiting for the dawn. Mornings in this West ...
Staying to help in Iraq: we have finally reached a point where humanitarian assistance, from us and others, can have an impact.(Current Opinion)(Editorial)(Reprint)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The request is familiar to American ears: "Bring them home." But in Iraq, where I've just met with American and Iraqi leaders, the phrase carries a different meaning. It does not refer to the departure of U.S. troops, but to the return of the millions of innocent Iraqis who ...