The Christian Science Monitor back issues from October 2002:
New models for higher education; Report points to poorly trained grads, sagging completion rates, and low expectations in its call for an overhaul.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Mark Clayton Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The future of higher education arrived without fanfare for Kimberly McClish during her freshman orientation last fall, when she was handed a laminated notebook divider. On it were the "Principles of ...
Training Disabled Students.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Many states have made progress in integrating students with special needs into regular classrooms. They've also helped them get ready for the world of work by allowing them to stay in school until they are 21. That can mean on-site job training, as well as other programs to help parents ...
A tribute from a high school 'thug'.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Marjorie Coeyman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- In an age of despair over the state of public education, Mark Edmundson's memoir serves as a testimony to the magic that can occur - even in the least inspired of school settings - when the right ...
Colleges Are Flunking.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Colleges and universities in the US are flush with money and applicants, and yet nearly half of the students never finish a four-year program. That low retention rate indicates something's seriously amiss in higher education. Bad high schools can get only so much blame. Yes, 53 ...
Parents, step forward.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Amelia Newcomb When I moved to Washington, D.C., a number of years ago, I learned one thing very quickly about the school my children would attend. Get involved, neighbors told me - but don't overdo it. The reason? The principal was not of a mind to spend time each day ...
'Mack' trucks into high schools to pitch technical careers.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Seth Stern Last week, a 53-foot tractor-trailer rolled up to the curb outside the public high school in Cambridge, Mass. Mack Trucks Inc.'s museum on wheels was visiting the latest stop on a national high school tour designed to sell students on technical careers. And ...
Exercising the right to not remain silent.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Seth Stern Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor As a resident alien, high school student Olga Nunez doesn't like the contents of the letter she's reading one bit. "Your name was brought to our attention because, among other things, you came to ...
Delicious history.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Rachel Dickinson Imagine a year of lunches without a single potato chip, apple slice, or carrot stick. No French fries, no ketchup, no tacos. And forget about corn flakes for breakfast, too. That's the kind of menu you'd be facing if enterprising humans hadn't ...
Blessing others - and a lesson from dark times; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Maria Rimkus, a young German in the 1940s, couldn't reconcile with her Christian faith the treatment that the Jews were receiving in Nazi Germany, and she decided to act. She brought food to the forced laborers working for a pharmaceutical factory in her neighborhood and, upon seeing Ruth, ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Oct 01, 2002 ... * LIGHT AND SHADOW: Prague correspondent Arie Farnam says she was happy to report good news in her update on the lives of Roma in the Czech Republic (page 10). "Sometimes it's hard to reconcile the extremes of this country," says Arie. "I know so many Romany families in distress - people ...
Growing a Woman President.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Even before the results are in, Hawaii's gubernatorial election this November has shattered the proverbial glass ceiling for women. Both Republican and Democratic candidates are female. In five other states, women running for governor stand a chance of winning, possibly doubling ...
Around Afghanistan in 80 bumpy hours; An Afghan road trip offers plenty of opportunities to meet with locals, but don't expect paved highways.(WORLD)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Philip Smucker Special to The Christian Science Monitor Our journey began at dawn in Kabul as we broke through the bustle of kebab carts and headed past farmers wearing plexiglass face shields, probing the parched earth for land mines. We rode north toward the ...
Condition critical as African doctors head overseas; Britain plans to bring in doctors from South Africa to help alleviate hospital waiting lists.(WORLD)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Nicole Itano Special to The Christian Science Monitor JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Sikiniwe Khumalo tends to 40 patients during a single shift as a nurse at the Helen Joseph Hospital here. That's too many, she says, for her to offer more than basic medical care, and ...
Czech Roma see discrimination begin to ebb; New antiracism efforts, mixed housing, and recent court decisions signal change.(WORLD)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Arie Farnam Special to The Christian Science Monitor PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC -- Being accepted into the law faculty of prestigious Charles University is a formidable achievement for anyone in the Czech Republic. For Jaroslav Drobek and two other Romany students who will ...
Letters.(OPINION)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Environmental activists often misrepresented Regarding your Sept. 26 article "In US, a rise of violent environmental tactics": I was extremely disappointed by the implication that animal-rights activists are the same as environmental activists. There is little overlap between ...
Comparative American dynasties.(OPINION)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Godfrey Sperling WASHINGTON -- I haven't seen it noted and it's probably arcane information of interest only to members of the hot-stove league of political observers who are always talking politics. But it's time someone mentioned that, should the president be ...
To Israel, Arafat a necessary evil; A 10-day siege of Yasser Arafat's compound ended this week, leaving the Palestinian leader in power.(WORLD)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Ben Lynfield Special to The Christian Science Monitor RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- Judging from the heaps of rubble that used to be the nerve center of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has narrowly escaped the rubbish bin of history. But ...
Middle Earth or middle school?(OPINION)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Madora McKenzie Kibbe BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- This is the story I'm constantly told by media, well-meaning friends, and bestselling experts: My kids have just entered uncharted territory, filled with dark secrets and battles for power and glorious alliances. Groups, ...
Slack economy jams campuses; A baby boom 'echo' and scarce job openings have sent college enrollment soaring. Schools are straining to keep up.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Kris Axtman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HOUSTON -- The University of Houston seniors sit on a bench outside the student center, eating Trix from a Ziploc bag and watching the crush of humanity. This year, there's even more humanity to see: Here, and ...
Iraq's way: pledge and retreat; By meeting with UN arms experts, Iraq hopes to divide the Security Council.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is playing classic bob-and-weave diplomacy as he attempts to avoid or delay UN Security Council action against him. By first saying that UN weapons inspectors ...
Labor's muscle on Pacific docks; Work stoppage in the West could cost $1 billion a day.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Mark Sappenfield and Ron Scherer Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor SAN FRANCISCO -- Few unions can cause this kind of a ruckus anymore. Forty years ago, it was the steelworkers, roiling President Kennedy and national inflation when they called ...
Bans on ex-con voting reviewed; Eighty percent of Americans want to let freed felons vote. Thirteen states disagree.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- When Thomas Johnson moved from New York City in 1996 to start a prison aftercare ministry in Gainesville, Fla., he received critical support from several local elected officials. So, when election ...
On Main Street, economy edges out Iraq; Some Republicans worry that voter anxiety could hurt them on Election Day.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- While Washington is fixing on the prospect of war with Iraq, voters are getting more anxious about the economy - a shift that's worrisome to some GOP candidates in close races. ...
As profits go down, workers dress up.(USA)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Byline: Christina McCarroll Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Every revolution has its backlash. And so it is with "business casual" - a movement that began in the 1980s with "dress-down Fridays" and gained speed in the mid-'90s, as dotcoms launched the reign of ...
Upholding the Right Torch.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Democrats, desperate to retain control of the Senate, apparently saw to it that New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli's political torch was finally snuffed out. The Senate ethics committee, which found Senator Torricelli had improperly taken gifts from a constituent, helped force ...
Curbing Forest Fires.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 02, 2002 ... A not-so-natural disaster befell many Western states this summer - massive forest fires - but that fact hasn't sparked the Senate to find a compromise among several different measures aimed at curbing future fires in national forests. The senators must act soon to help the ...
Finding brilliance in fall and beyond.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Elizabeth Lund In New England, a few trees have started to blush with fall color. But once all the red and gold leaves have fallen, many people will begin to really notice their local landscapes. Without fall's finery, neon signs appear much brighter. ...
Down-to-earth houses.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Phil Elderkin Special to The Christian Science Monitor HESPERIA, CALIF. -- The idea of building a beehivelike house out of moist dirt mixed with some loose cement, scooped into standard-size sandbags, and held together by strands of barbed wire sounds like something Rube ...
Etc...(NEWS IN BRIEF)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Compiled from staff and wire reports Um, we need that back Often, we hear how overpaid professional athletes are as compared to, say, school-teachers. But that doesn't take into account the unidentified teacher in Detroit who presumably was more than a little ...
Inuit ingenuity finds a warm reception; The Arctic musk ox provides warmth and welcome income to several generations of women in remote Alaskan villages.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Gerry Watkins Special to The Christian Science Monitor Inuit women in Alaska have been turning straw into gold for more than 30 years. Their "straw," however, is actually hair, musk ox hair, which has created some golden opportunities. In the 1960s, Arctic ...
Conserving American character, town by town.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Ross Atkin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor As a conservationist, Ed McMahon wants to protect American communities from a creeping sense of sameness. No, this Ed McMahon isn't Johnny Carson's old sidekick and TV pitchman. He's director of land-use ...
These days, you can't be too careful - or can you?(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Marilyn Gardner WANTED: Parents to volunteer in their children's schools. Help teachers with reading, after-school programs, and field trips. All volunteers must first pass a security check conducted by the Criminal Records Bureau. * * * This ad ...
Doing the laundry gets a high-tech spin; What will they think of next? Now there's no excuse not to empty the dryer on time.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Elizabeth Armstrong Special to The Christian Science Monitor A college student is sitting in her dorm room copying equations from her physics book when she gets the call: Her second load of laundry has just finished washing. She bookmarks the page, grabs her debit card, ...
I'd never have known all this if I hadn't had children.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Gwen Morrison As the mother of four children, ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, I've picked up a few ideas along the way. Most of what I've learned has come to me through watching my children, and noticing their view of this world we all live in. I've ...
One taco stand worth standing for; Fans of La Super Rica line up daily for its fresh, authentic Mexican food.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Jennifer Wolcott Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- If it weren't for the line spilling out its door, passersby might not even notice La Super Rica. The humble taco stand on a residential street in downtown Santa Barbara doesn't have ...
A young volunteer finds fertile ground for his efforts.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Chase Clements Special to The Christian Science Monitor There they were, a kaleidoscope of cheerful, vibrant flowers, where just days before only dirt, grass, and weeds stood in their place. I had gotten the inspiration earlier in the summer to make my ...
'Swords into plowshares'; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 02, 2002 ... About 15 years ago, I was the eye-witness to a double murder in front of our house. I remember the fear and mistrust I felt toward all kinds of people after this incident, and the insecurity and anxiety that accompanied this shocking event. I found in "Science and Health with ...
Meet the 10 grandmas that I'm married to.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Roderick Nordell During the eternity before our children had children, I tried to comfort everybody by asking, "Who wants to be married to a grandmother anyway?" Now that the toddlers have arrived, I am not married to a grandmother but to at least 10 of them: ...
The model of a modern major opera fan.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Christopher Andreae A wandering minstrel I am not. Nor have I ever been the model of a modern major general. Although I would like to be able to claim that a more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist or admit that I have walked down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in ...
Antiwar voices rise, but with twist; Europe saw massive peace protests over the weekend, but UN-led action against Iraq finds favor.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS -- From Washington to Rome and from London to Sydney, the peace signs, the antiwar slogans, and the chants that rallied hundreds of thousands of demonstrators against an invasion of Iraq last weekend recalled ...
G&S live on.(THE HOME FORUM)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: C.A. "There are few greater pleasures in life than a really good performance of Gilbert and Sullivan." So begins a review (by Rodney Mills, in The Times) of a production of the Victorian comic opera duo's "Iolanthe" at London's Savoy Theatre. Nothing unusual about that ...
US stance on Iraq: a UN compromise now likely; Washington shows signs of softening its demand for a tough, one-step approach.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Michael J. Jordan Special to The Christian Science Monitor UNITED NATIONS -- As horse-trading continues over a proposed new US-British UN resolution that threatens Iraq with force, indications are the Bush administration may be willing to bend. Washington is ...
As Iraq teeters, Iran weighs its options; Iraq's foreign minister visited Tehran this week. Britain's foreign secretary will visit next week.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Michael Theodoulou Special to The Christian Science Monitor TEHRAN, IRAN -- Like most Iranians, Majid Ahmadi has good reason to want Saddam Hussein ousted. Now a mild-mannered civil servant, he was a 17-year-old volunteer soldier when he was captured by Iraqi ...
Iraq shifts US-Israeli equation; US pressure was central to Israel's decision to halt its siege of Arafat's compound this week.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Cameron W. Barr Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JERUSALEM -- Last April, as Israeli troops reoccupied Palestinian cities and laid siege to Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, President Bush and other US officials repeatedly demanded ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Cultural snapshot * A LESSON IN POLYGAMY: Reporters' own beliefs are often challenged by the people they interview. In today's story about Spanish converts to Islam, American Sara Miller admits that she didn't know much about Islam before she interviewed Kamila Toby (page 7) ....
A Spanish bridge to Islam; Spain's Muslim converts reach out to Moroccan immigrant women and children.(WORLD)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Sara B. Miller Special to The Christian Science Monitor MADRID -- As a teenager, Elena Rodriguez Arteaga visited the Alhambra, Granada's great Moorish citadel, and became intrigued with Spain's Muslim past. She studied its role in her overwhelmingly Catholic country, and ...
Letters.(OPINION)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Privacy rights should have its limits In response to your Sept. 25 article "Child abuse video reveals how often we're on camera," about the privacy issues raised by the capture of child abuse on a security camera in the parking lot of a Florida mall: What privacy issues? ...
Small voices in a forgotten war; For more than a decade, the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group, has terrorized northern Uganda, abducting children, forcing them to serve as fighters, workers, and concubines. The Christian Children's Fund collected written testimony from children who were abducted this summer but escaped. Excerpts here are from three teens whose education in village schools near Gulu the fund sponsors.(OPINION)
Oct 02, 2002 ... On the night of Aug. 13, as I read a book in front of my hut where I sleep with my brother, I looked up and saw 18 soldiers in Army uniforms marching. I thought it was government soldiers doing patrol in the village. [But] the group came straight to me, rounded me up, all their guns facing ...
Do Iraqis want invasion? Ask victims of despots past.(OPINION)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: John Hughes SALT LAKE CITY -- Much of my career in journalism has been spent viewing, and writing about, wars and revolutions and turmoil in different quarters of the globe. Some foreign correspondents get jaded about all this, but my most precious memories are of the ...
As tastes shift, fast-food giants swallow hard.(USA)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Noel C. Paul Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ED WHOLLY is the kind of man one might expect to eat a cheeseburger and fries with little hesitation, and without remorse. Thick chested, with legs the size of young oak trees, Mr. Wholley (pronounced ...
For Bush, dollars and cents drive land-use policies; Controversial moves include a plan to make logging for fire prevention profitable by clearing some big trees.(USA)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. -- Seasonal rains and blessedly cooler weather have pretty much brought an end to this year's scorching fire season across the West. But the heat and smoke of the political battle ...
Torricelli pullout: wrong year for ethics baggage; As incumbent Senator withdraws, New Jersey Democrats seek a replacement.(USA)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- For months, Americans have watched a parade of ethically challenged businessmen - but there wasn't much they could do about it. Now, they're turning to an area where they can have a say: politics. ...
Congress says it sees Jerusalem as Israel's capital; Although Bush says he doesn't recognize the provision, the new US law is sure to upset Arabs.(USA)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- Even in the roiling Middle East, few topics raise as much passion as the future status of Jerusalem. So President Bush's signature Monday on a law that requires the United States to identify ...
Inside the Army's quest for agility, speed; An armored vehicle called the Stryker embodies the effort to bridge gap between light and heavy units.(USA)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Byline: Ann Scott Tyson Special Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor FT. LEWIS, WASH. -- In pine-covered foothills below Mt. Rainier, camouflaged US troops are staging raids, assaulting mock villages, and fording rivers in a new, eight-wheeled armored vehicle that the ...
Building blocks.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Amelia Newcomb When I pick up my hometown paper each Thursday, it's almost guaranteed that a story on housing will be front-page news. Lack of affordable homes, a former shipyard's development, senior housing, traffic - all parade regularly above the fold as my town of ...
Afghan Women.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 03, 2002 ... If a stable, progressive Afghanistan is ever to rise from the dust of war and misrule, it will need the talents of all its citizens - most notably its women. Afghan women were relentlessly repressed by the Taliban. With that repression lifted by the American military, they are ...
Bypassing Brazil on Free Trade.(EDITORIAL)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Armed with "fast track" negotiating authority from Congress, the Bush administration is ready to steam ahead toward freer trade, starting with Latin America. But then, there's Brazil. A leftist nationalist named Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears set to win Brazil's ...
Hounding the hunters; Passions run high as Parliament weighs proposals to restrict or ban fox hunting, a favored pastime among England's rural dwellers.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LONDON -- One of the more divisive issues in Britain right now is not whether to do away with the monarchy (though that question is far from resolved), but whether to dispense with another English tradition: fox ...
Dead zones may not be so dead after all; New research finds thriving colonies of tiny worms and bacteria in oxygen-depleted water and notes the significant economic impact.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Some 200 miles west of Acapulco, Mexico, Volcano 7 rises 8,600 feet from the ocean floor. A range of odd organisms grows along the seamount's flanks, but the volcano is not exactly a hotbed of ...
Pollution puts coral reefs off Florida's coast in peril; Agricultural run-off and sewage encourage algae.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: John Christopher Fine Special to The Christian Science Monitor BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. -- Forty-two madrepore corals were dead, counted during an hour-long dive 50 feet down in the Atlantic waters off Boynton Beach, Fla. Others were half-dead, with stark white patches on ...
What's in a name? Little of real value; Two years after her wildly successful 'White Teeth,' Zadie Smith takes a bite out of celebrity culture.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Ron Charles Book reviewing is ordinarily an honorable process, like say, college admissions, in which righteous judgment flows from disinterested appraisal of a subject's merit. There are, of course, minor abuses now and then. Last year, for instance, Christopher Buckley ...
World's greatest computer hacker raises alarm; Barred from writing about his own case for 10 years, Kevin Mitnick describes classic computer crimes - and how to thwart them.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Simson Garfinkel Kevin Mitnick may have been the greatest computer hacker the world has ever known. At least, the FBI treated him that way. In the 1980s, Mitnick allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to Pacific Bell, Digital Equipment, and the North American ...
The antiglobalization battle plan; To fight corporate power around the world, protesters must know the enemy and start organizing - instead of just shouting.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Tristan Jones There are a few standard ingredients that no self-respecting protest book with an eye to the bestseller lists should be without. "The Silent Takeover" - a book that has rapidly made its author one of the world's most prominent critics of globalization - ...
In Holland, the pressures of American-style urban sprawl; After decades of socially conscious architecture, the Dutch lean toward more isolated, car-dependent suburban models.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Jane Holtz Kay Special to The Christian Science Monitor AMSTERDAM -- Water is to Holland as plains and hills are to America - a clean slate for building. Yet, for all its history in pluckily turning bog and sea into buildable land, the Netherlands' dedication to urban ...
Rare bears going through a dark phase; Politics and culture may destroy these animals before scientists can determine what they are.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Byline: Lori Valigra In "Search for the Golden Moon Bear," nature writer Sy Montgomery once again demonstrates her dogged perseverance in tracking her subject, in this case, the elusive golden moon bear, which if found, could become a new species of bear. Like a war ...