The Christian Science Monitor back issues from January 2003:
Mexican IDs in the US...(EDITORIAL)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Entering the US without a visa is a bit like downloading copyrighted music off the Internet. So many people do it and the benefits seem so great, who really cares if it's illegal? That "pragmatic" attitude toward illegal migrants has become so pervasive that Mexico now feels no ...
... US Benefits for Mexicans.(EDITORIAL)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Mexico's President Vicente Fox long has pressed the US to relax immigration rules between the two countries. But Sept. 11 intervened, and now tighter, not looser, borders are the order of the day in fighting terrorism. Enter a new proposed US-Mexico agreement that will ...
CD industry lacks formula for success; Illegal copying, typically by young listeners, is blamed for worst music sales in a decade.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Lynne Margolis Special to The Christian Science Monitor Did you get a CD in your Christmas stocking this year? The recording industry sure hopes so. But even if you purchased some of the 624.2 million CDs sold in the United States as of Dec. 22, record labels ...
The Brother of invention.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Susan Llewelyn Leach In 1972, Hewlett Packard came out with the HP-35 - the radical idea of a calculator small enough it could slip into your shirt pocket. My father, a physicist, bought one immediately. On returning home to London from a trip to the States, ...
Tinkering with clouds; Researchers say evolving technologies could allow manipulation of major weather patterns. But should humans tamper?(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor On Sept. 11, 1992, hurricane Iniki slammed into the Hawaiian island of Kauai, packing winds gusting up to 175 m.p.h. The storm inflicted an estimated $2 billion in damage and 105 casualties, ...
A palace at the top of the world; The Incas may be gone, but their vistas still take our breath away.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Diana Muir In the mountains of Peru, entire cities have been lost since they were abandoned by the last Incas five centuries ago. Hugh Thomson - young, British, and with no idea what he wanted to do with his life - found the idea of discovering one irresistible. ...
The mother of invention; A new history of America looks back through the lens of technology.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Alan Earls "Inventing America," a comprehensive new history of the United States, arrives as if to offer a respite from the culture wars. As both a textbook and a highly readable narrative, the volume takes a fresh look at America, not as a 19th-century primer might have ...
The retirement problem; After a lifetime of self-sacrifice, how can one enjoy all that newfound freedom?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Ron Charles Who really wants to read Anita Brookner's repellently accurate novels about the intricacies of loneliness? I'm sure this isn't a question that troubles the Booker Prize-winning author, who's managed to publish a book a year since 1981. But a critic ...
Silos vs. subdivisions; As more and more farmland is plowed under for housing developments, people wonder how to make room for both the cows and the kids.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Ross Atkin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor For years, America's urban areas have been letting out their overalls, spreading into the surrounding countryside. As a result, developers and farmers are caught in a tug of war, both sides using "this land is my ...
A growing appetite for smaller portions.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Marilyn Gardner For decaded, the comic-strip character Dagwood Bumstead was a man ahead of his time, at least when the subject turned to food. Whenever he wanted a midnight snack, Dagwood would tiptoe into the kitchen and make a huge sandwich, piling it high ...
Eggs Benedict still reigns supreme; The origin of this dish is a topic of debate, but its royal reputation is inarguable.(FEATURES)(HOMEFRONT)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: John Edward Young Special to The Christian Science Monitor Lounging luxuriantly on a toasted English-muffin throne upholstered with ham, swathed in a golden robe of rich hollandaise sauce, and crowned with a sprinkling of caviar or, for those most royal occasions, a thin ...
A New Year's wish; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 02, 2003 ... In some parts of India there's a custom of approaching a family member or friend on New Year's Day and asking if he or she would like to "see the Lord." The individual replies affirmatively, and then is blindfolded and led to a different part of the house. The blindfold is removed and a ...
Welcome to our henhouse, Honey.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Betsy Ramelkamp "Welcome to the henhouse, Honey," said my husband, as he paid the taxi driver and turned me by my free arm toward our new home. I was holding our sleeping 4-month-old baby in the other arm. I hadn't believed Joe when he told me over the phone that we ...
Lessons in friendship from my 'communist' cousins.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Edward T. Ordman Children are remarkably gullible. All young children, so far as I know, believe that what goes on in their family is normal and that the rest of the world is like that, too. Eventually they discover that other families are different, or maybe even that ...
Palestinian factions may curb intifada; Hamas and Fatah are set to meet, raising hopes for less violence in Israel.(WORLD)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Cameron W. Barr Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JERUSALEM -- Representatives of the two main Palestinian factions are preparing for meetings in Cairo in the coming days that could yield a common political agenda, including a renunciation of terrorist ...
Spies keep busy as ever, quietly; On Friday, Russia banned US Peace Corps volunteers, accusing them of espionage.(WORLD)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Fred Weir Special to The Christian Science Monitor MOSCOW -- Following Russia's historic rapprochement with the West after Sept. 11, even celluloid superspy James Bond has forgiven his traditional nemesis in Moscow and gone in search of fresh enemies. The latest Bond ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jan 02, 2003 ... * SPY TALE: Though he reports that espionage is alive and well in Russia (this page), Fred Weir says that in his 16 years living there he has had only one known encounter with a state security agent. "There have been times, of course, when I suspected I was being canvassed or sounded out," ...
Letters.(OPINION)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Not all African-Americans need rescuing In response to your Dec. 23 editorial "GOP Lessons, Post Lott": In your heartfelt explanation of how it is important for the GOP to reach out and connect to African-Americans, you left out one very important point: Which African-Americans ...
Brazil's new leader has big plans - but little money; Leftist da Silva takes office on New Year's day amid high expectations from Brazil's poor.(WORLD)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Andrew Downie Special to The Christian Science Monitor PARAISO DE CIMA, BRAZIL -- Brazil's new president rings in the New Year with a herculean task ahead: to transform Latin America's biggest economy and introduce costly social reforms with virtually no money. ...
Why we still need affirmative action.(OPINION)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Andrea Guerrero SAN DIEGO -- As a law student, I was in the last class of affirmative action beneficiaries at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1996, the State of California passed a measure to ban affirmative action practices at its public universities. Since ...
Stretching the truth to confuse the enemy - and us.(OPINION)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Pat M. Holt WASHINGTON -- There is a debate going on in the upper ranks of the government over how this country ought to present its image abroad. This particular debate has gone back and forth ever since the days of the Voice of America (VOA) in World War II ....
A recovery no one buys; Economic pickup forecast for '03, but shoppers feel pressed.(USA)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: David R. Francis Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The US economy enters 2003 in a peculiar pinch - with its growth prospects squeezed by excesses of the past and burdens of the future. Forecasters see the nation's economy growing a respectable 3.2 ...
New York's latest crime-buster: muzzling toy guns.(USA)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Ashley Chapman Special to The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- Her voice is impish and feminine, but her gun is menacing. "Give me your money," she says through a ski mask to a bank teller in New Jersey. The teller hands over $3,050, and the robber and another ...
Why Bush's war threats have extra gravitas; His foreign policy style, marked by decisiveness, prompts a more serious respect for US power.(USA)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- Washington types like to play a parlor game that might be called "What If?" Here's one round: What if Bill Clinton had still been president on Sept. 11? The former chief executive ...
On Pittsburgh tongues: a 'sammich dahntahn'; The Steel City's local dialect - Pittsburghese - has caught the imagination of ordinary folks and academics alike.(USA)
Jan 02, 2003 ... Byline: Sara B. Miller Special to The Christian Science Monitor PITTSBURGH -- "Yinz gowen dahntahn for a sammich, n'at? Redd up yer room first and watch aht for them slippy roads." When icy roads turn slippy and cleaning your room entails redding it up, there's only ...
Stopping Sports Rampages.(EDITORIAL)
Jan 03, 2003 ... A disturbing pattern of violence has taken hold at some colleges after sports contests against rival schools. Students celebrate with rampages, thinking destruction of property is within the bounds of appropriate enthusiasm. The past year saw particular violence on at least six ...
Bush Compassion in 2003.(EDITORIAL)
Jan 03, 2003 ... As George W. Bush nears the midpoint of his term, he has proven himself to be a wartime president, a tax-cutting president, and an education president. But America has yet to see most of the programs he promised during the 2000 campaign in an agenda he called compassionate ...
Two terms hewn from trees.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Nancy M. Kendall Lumber The name for the sawed wood we use to build our homes comes from a Germanic tribe called the Lombards (long beards), who invaded Italy in the 6th century and from whom Lombardy took its name. These Lombardi (Ital.) merchants ...
Built for the Bard; With a thatched roof and no lights or indoor plumbing, this is theater as Shakespeare would have liked it.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. LENOX, MASS. -- It's the kind of performance space that Shakespeare had in mind as he was writing his plays - right down to the thatched roof. Right now, the triple-decker theater - an exact ...
One man's journey from hero to traitor.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor His name is the American term for "traitor." He's the country's own Judas, a man who sold out his leader and his cause for a handful of silver. Or its Lucifer, the high-flying favorite of his patron, George ...
Artist cooks up food for thought.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Matthew Rose Special to The Christian Science Monitor WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- Man cannot live by bread alone. Sometimes you have to stick a piece in the toaster and call it art. One morning over breakfast, New Zealander Maurice Bennett eyed the lightly ...
Stars try out a new chair; This week, George Clooney becomes newest A-lister to shout 'Action!'.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: David Sterritt Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor Having an internationally famous face isn't enough for some movie stars nowadays. A growing number are moving to the business side of the camera, trading the actor's traditional mantra - "What's my ...
What's on TV; SHOWS FOR JAN. 5-10.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: M.S. Mason Sunday 1/5 Ten Minutes Older (Showtime, 10:45- 11 p.m.): A series of eight 10-minute films by established European directors begins Friday night with a meditation by Mike Figgis ("Leaving Las Vegas") on the discontinuity of memory. Every Sunday ...
An Arab Israeli pushes Israel's free-speech limit.(WORLD)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Ben Lynfield Special to The Christian Science Monitor JERUSALEM -- At first Israeli Arab leader Azmi Bishara, sipping cappuccino and quoting John Stuart Mill, seems more like an ivory tower intellectual than a challenge to the powerful Israeli state. But to ...
Sit right back & hear a tale of finales.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Yvonne Zipp Who doesn't like planning their "Friends" lives for them? When offered the chance to script the series finale, readers suggested everything from all six ending up happily married to Phoebe gaining custody of the triplets. Bob Thompson ...
Movie Guide.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... NEW RELEASES Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (R) Director: George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Drew Barrymore. (113 min.) Sterritt *** An apocryphal memoir by Chuck Barris inspired this partly true story, which blends his real ...
US bides time on N. Korean crisis; South Korea turns to Moscow for help in defusing tensions on the peninsula.(WORLD)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor As North Korea's Kim Jong Il moves to create a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea is - by default - taking the lead this week as diplomatic firefighter. In recent days, President ...
A legend in his own mind; The double life of 'Gong Show's' Chuck Barris, who claims he was an assassin.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: David Sterritt Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is in the news because it marks George Clooney's directing debut. Its most interesting angle, though, is the screenplay, written by Charlie Kaufman of "Adaptation" and "Being ...
The Cheese stands alone.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Leila Wombacher Knox Special to The Christian Science Monitor SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. -- For String Cheese Incident guitarist Billy Nershi, the assurance of success came in the form of a half-packed music hall on a snowy Colorado night, when 300 fans risked icy roads and ...
A photographic pioneer gets his due; Sheeler was the first to apply abstract principles to photos.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Susan Saccoccia Special to The Christian Science Monitor Few have done so much for American art to so little acclaim. As both a painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is one of America's pioneering modernists. Yet he is often cast as a niche ...
A career bookended by Broadway.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Tony Vellela Special to The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- Forty years ago, she was Broadway's reigning princess. Now, after an admittedly self-imposed exile, Patty Duke has returned to the New York stage in "Oklahoma!" "It was a real adrenaline rush," ...
Caracans split between boredom and business as usual; No movies, discos, or baseball in the capital during Venezuela's fifth week on strike.(WORLD)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Kris Axtman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- Venezuela's capital has become a tale of two cities. The month-long strike aimed at ousting President Hugo Chavez has all but shut down Caracas's wealthier east side, home to most ...
Prayer vigil; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Because of increased public awareness of terrorist threats and actual attacks around the world, a growing number of people have sought spiritual solace, comfort, and strength from prayer vigils. Prayer vigils, however, are nothing new, as I was reminded when I visited Wimborne, ...
Letters.(OPINION)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Help Africa to value itself Regarding your Dec. 27 article "Days wane for African 'big men' ": This well-written article gives the reader an accurate snapshot of the nature of African politics. My hope is for "new blood at the top," but how will this be possible with widespread ...
Why I prefer an ax over a chain saw; While wielding the ax i am pushing the cold back, like a wave, overcoming it....(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Robert Klose The other day I was out in the backyard, doing my Paul Bunyan routine as I swung my ax over my shoulder and came down hard and clean against the wood I'd hauled from the Penobscot River. The wood was dry and well-seasoned; if I was right on the mark, I could ...
We don't have winters like that no more.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: John Gould In my youth I heard the old seed stock folks say the winters were getting balmier, and we had nothing now like the old-time snows of the 1800s when people froze to death, or a blizzard like the night the Steamer Portland went down. Now, I spend my old age ...
Pro football's triumph of equal opportunity; For the first time, neither of the previous year's Super Bowl contenders made the NFL playoff cut.(USA)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Justin Brown Special to The Christian Science Monitor BALTIMORE -- This football season would have brought a smile to the face of Pete Rozelle. The late NFL commissioner - and visionary - dreamed of a day when every game would count, when every matchup would ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jan 03, 2003 ... * STRANGER IN A GHETTO: Reporter Arie Farnam has done several stories on Europe's Roma, so she wasn't too concerned when local journalists in Slovakia, even Romany journalists, warned her it was too dangerous to go to Lunik IX, the largest Romany ghetto in Slovakia (this page). She ...
Slovakian Roma forced to ghettos; Defying EU pressure, Slovakia is systematically segregating its Romany minority into ghettos, and barring their entrance into cities.(WORLD)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Arie Farnam Special to The Christian Science Monitor KOSICE, SLOVAKIA -- Teenager Lucie David still has nightmares about the evening two years ago when local police and neo-Nazi skinheads attacked her family's home in the small town of Stos in eastern Slovakia. ...
Calling all nitty gritty scribes.(OPINION)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Jeffrey Shaffer PORTLAND, ORE. -- The Homeland Security Department desperately needs a few good scribes right now, writers who know how to make their sentences jump off the page, so that Americans are properly informed about the dangers facing us in the war against ...
Fundamentals for peace-building in Sudan.(OPINION)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Peter D. Bell ATLANTA -- Monday could mark a bright beginning for Sudan, Africa's largest country. Peace talk negotiators will be reassembling in neighboring Kenya to tackle one of the longest-running wars in the world. Progress has been made since talks first began last ...
Preempting preemptive action.(OPINION)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON -- The Bush doctrine of preemptive action against the "catastrophic" danger of rogue states with weapons of mass destruction has faced its first test in North Korea, and seems to have flunked. The doctrine was first enunciated in the ...
Democrats face crunch time for '04; As Sen. John Edwards joins the presidential fray, a scurry for the nomination begins.(USA)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Liz Marlantes Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The ashes are barely cool from the 2002 election, but already it's showtime for the 2004 presidential hopefuls. Candidates angling for the Democratic presidential nomination come under ...
Where the train stops, just for you, in the wilds.(USA)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Yereth Rosen Special to The Christian Science Monitor SUSITNA RIVER VALLEY, ALASKA -- In the shadow of Mt. McKinley, at the shack that serves as the depot for the tiny town of Talkeetna, two dozen people and six dogs board an Alaska Railroad train on a crisp morning, ...
Revenge of the (quarterback) nerds.(USA)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Mark Sappenfield Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ORINDA, CALIF., AND TEMPE, ARIZ. -- Friday night, on television or from the 50-yard line, they will look perfectly normal. When college football's championship kicks off at the Fiesta Bowl here in ...
Don of a new era; A cold-war warrior confronts the age of terrorism.(USA)
Jan 03, 2003 ... Byline: Ann Scott Tyson Special correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor It's a classic scene from what might be called "The World According to Don Rumsfeld." On a raw November day in Bratislava, the US Defense secretary strides onto a red carpet, places his hand over his ...
Battle brews over benefits.(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: David R. Francis When running for office, President Bush billed himself as a "compassionate conservative." By now, few ardent liberals accept that self-description. The danger to Republicans is that the political middle will question this terminology. Many ...
Happy Ending for Cyprus?(EDITORIAL)
Jan 06, 2003 ... After nearly 30 years of bitter division, the "Greek tragedy" of Cyprus could end with a smile. If so, let it be a lesson that pressure from key outsiders; a reasonable plan for peace; and a big, fat carrot are essential ingredients for resolving such long-standing disputes. ...
Untaxing Dividends.(EDITORIAL)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Wrong name, Mr. President. The economic stimulus package you plan to announce on Tuesday should be called an economic sustainability package. Despite the lagging indicator of 6 percent unemployment, the economy is already getting back on its feet after a Big Shakeout ...
Take that back! Return policies vary widely during the season when shoppers undo their giving. But the way to avoid hassles remains the same: Bring a receipt.(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: Steven Savides Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The biggest surprise of the holidays for Kimberly Moreland did not come when she opened her gifts, but when she tried to return one. A month before Christmas, Ms. Moreland learned that an Xbox video ...
Learning some fashion sense.(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: Vic Roberts The meeting held last month to discuss this week's cover story began with a forlorn co-worker lamenting that his favorite belt had broken. He said he would need to buy a new one as the other men in the room nodded in agreement. The ...
Labor shortage ahead?(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: Neal Learner Special to The Christian Science Monitor Despite the current job slump, the United States will face an unprecedented labor shortage in the years ahead, some workplace analysts warn. A government-projected shortfall of some 10 million workers by ...
It's dirty work, and these women gotta do it.(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: Dave Donelson Special to The Christian Science Monitor Few women embrace the idea of being a construction worker. Only 153,000 women worked in the construction trades in 2001, according to the US Department of Labor. That's only 2.4 percent of the total construction ...
Etc...(NEWS IN BRIEF)
Jan 06, 2003 ... Byline: Compiled from wire reports by staff To protect and to be seen Say you're driving in Sweden and violate local laws regulating the operation of motor vehicles. What's going to pull you over? It may not be a familiar blue-and-white police car, but one sporting a ...
Stones crying out loud; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jan 06, 2003 ... There are prominent criminal cases in the news that drag on, frustrating the patience of both law officers and the public. But there is something working on behalf of human investigation that is often overlooked or downplayed in the resolution of crime - the self-revealing nature of all ...