The Christian Science Monitor back issues from July 2006:
Supreme Court's new man in the middle; The most significant development of the high court's 2005-2006 term, which ended last week, is the emergence of Justice Kennedy as the sole swing vote at the moderate center of the court.(USA)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Byline: Warren Richey WASHINGTON -- The US Supreme Court has grow nmore conservative with the addition of President Bush's two nominees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. But it will be a third justice, Anthony Kennedy, who will likely decide how far to the ...
Negotiating the blogosphere; A Christian Science perspective on daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 05, 2006 ... It's worth noting that although Web logs, or "blogs," haven't been around for more than about six years, the Technorati site (a search engine that monitors blogs) tracks 35.3 million of them and reports that the numbers are doubling every six months. And a Pew Internet and American Life ...
Budget woes looming beyond N.J.(USA)
Jul 05, 2006 ... Byline: Ron Scherer and Lauren Dake JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Franklin Soto takes a break from his job, sweeping and mopping the bus terminals in Journal Square, to buy lottery tickets at least twice a day. Sunday, however, was the first time in almost 30 years that he ...
Kentucky bans blogs in state offices; Bloggers and state employees are speaking out about what they say is a violation of free speech.(USA)
Jul 05, 2006 ... Byline: Patrik JonssonStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ATLANTA -- Long-time columnist Al Cross is considered the dean of Kentucky journalism. Mostly retired from print, these days Mr. Cross details the challenges of rural journalism on a Web log or "blog." ...
The bull takes a breather; Investors are puzzled: Profits are rising, jobs are up, inflation is at bay - so why is the market still not booming?(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 10, 2006 ... Byline: Martin SkalaCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor You can't blame mutual fund investors for feeling a bit confused. After a strong first quarter, the bull market appeared poised to carry that momentum into the second quarter. An expanding economy kept adding ...
States target employers of illegal migrants; This year, 30 states considered laws to sanction those who hire undocumented workers.(USA)
Jul 11, 2006 ... Byline: Daniel B. WoodStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LOS ANGELES -- While the US House holds on-the-road hearings on reforming federal immigration laws, states and localities have already passed a raft of statutes that take aim at the economic magnet drawing ...
American-born children shouldn't be deported; Immigration reform must ensure that the best interest of American children determines the fate of their undocumented parents.(OPINION)
Jul 17, 2006 ... Byline: Noreen M. Sugrue CHAMPAIGN, ILL. -- As the US government urgently seeks a unified policy to deal with illegal immigrants, law-enforcement officials seem to be paying more attention to enforcing current laws. In June 2006, for example, more than 2,400 ...
Whither the homespun Irish welcome? An Ireland vacation won't meet storybook expectations, but an open mind will go far.(OPINION)
Jul 18, 2006 ... Byline: Steve Coronella DUBLIN, IRELAND -- If you're considering a visit to Ireland this summer, you've probably been tempted by the prospect of finding some legendary "Irish hospitality." You may see yourself stepping off the plane at Shannon Airport, retrieving ...
Backstory: Mrs. Murphy, inflation detective; That lady in produce could be one of the government sleuths bringing you the monthly Consumer Price Index.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 19, 2006 ... Byline: Mark TrumbullStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NASHUA, N.H. -- It's 9:25 a.m., the kids are safely dropped off with relatives, and Beth Murphy is ready to embark on another binge of serial store-hopping. Before she picks her son and daughter up again in the ...
Bring back community policing.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: The Monitor's View Many US cities are witnessing a rise in violent crime, made more disturbing by the youths increasingly involved. This crime wave isn't towering like those of the past, but it should act as a warning that a storm may be approaching. ...
Etc...(NEWS IN BRIEF)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Compiled from wire reports by staff Dear Mr. Mayor, Why hasn't ... It's said that a New Yorker is never truly happy unless he (or she) is griping about something. Such as? Oh, you know: the noise, lax trash pickup, burned-out streetlights, even how poorly the ...
To take the yawn out of math equations, teach the teachers; In an effort to boost K-12 student achievement, the US Department of Education sends star teachers on tour to share their ideas.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Stacy A. TeicherStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HOPKINTON, MASS. -- They're quite a bit older than Mark Hannum's typical students. But they seem just as relieved to get to play with motion sensors and brightly colored basketballs rather than be lectured to ...
On your mark, get set: Science! Inspired by a Japanese cooking show, the 'Iron Science Teacher' competition aims for comprehension, not cuisine.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Pamela S. TurnerCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor SAN FRANCISCO -- Some of the best scientific experiments are the simplest. Think of Galileo dropping lead balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or Archimedes working out the principle of specific gravity ...
E-mail spam as a masterpiece in the making; A Romanian artist uses special algorithms to turn the text of unsolicited e-mail into digital images.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Stacy A. TeicherStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Don't let the spam get you down. With the right touch, an annoying message can become a masterpiece. When Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu looks at junk e-mails, he sees patterns - bits and bytes ...
Backstory: A town of foreign marriages; Taiwanese men, unable to find local brides, turn to brokered unions - with mixed results.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Simon MontlakeCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor SHIHDING, TAIWAN -- From the busy street outside, Tsai Huang-jin's one-room noodle shop looks like any other no-nonsense eatery in this tiny village. It has metal tables, grimy condiment jars, and rotating ...
Loneliness - God has an answer; A Christian Science perspective on daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 20, 2006 ... There may be times when any one of us feels lonely. But loneliness is never a permanent state of being. Through the grace of God, everyone is entitled to find a reason for hope and a way out of loneliness. Christian Science reveals God's true nature. It teaches what many people ...
Three ships and a New World; Thirteen years before the Pilgrims, English colonists set sail to find gold. They founded Virginia.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Lauren Dake Imagine sailing through tropical Caribbean islands to a land thought to be full of gold and untouched by other humans. Don't get your hopes too high - there won't be any kayaking or snorkeling stops on this voyage. Were you thinking this was going to be a ...
All in a day's work: 200,000 refugees and roving bandits; Few volunteers last six months in eastern Chad, but Claire Bourgeois has spent two years here for the UN.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Claire SoaresCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor ABECHE, CHAD -- Aid workers huddle over the breakfast table, visibly shellshocked by last night's shooting. A Spanish colleague is fighting for her life, after being shot by a man in military fatigues who made ...
Israel's tight window for action; Israel ramps up efforts to destroy Hizbullah before calls for a cease-fire intensify.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Joshua MitnickCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor CARMIEL, ISRAEL -- Moving to destroy Hizbullah outposts across its northern border, Israeli troops engaged in fierce battles with the Shiite militia inside Lebanon for the first time in the week-old war. ...
Asian pols face second-term blues; The elected leaders of Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines are all battling extraordinary efforts to cut short their tenures.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Simon MontlakeCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor BANGKOK, THAILAND -- It's tough being a two-term politician in East Asia these days. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is clinging to office after a disputed April 2 election that was later ...
Taiwan tunnel speeds rural change.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Simon Montlake It's a water-cooler view to die for: towering mountains, low-rise farmhouses, and a furrowed onion field. Not exactly a downtown location, but for Huang Sheng-yuan and his team of architects, Taiwan's pastoral east coast is the perfect spot for their ...
In Lebanon, UN force overwhelmed; Evacuating casualties of Israeli air strikes is a priority for UNIFIL.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Nicholas BlanfordCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor TYRE, LEBANON -- The escalating civilian death toll in south Lebanon from Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments, and the inability to evacuate casualties, is causing mounting alarm to United Nations ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... A Conflict Hits Home: When he returned from reporting Wednesday, correspondent Josh Mitnick found that a Katyusha rocket, launched by Hizbullah forces in Lebanon, had hit about a quarter-mile from the home he was staying at in the town of Kiryat Tivon, Israel. "I wasn't here at ...
Americans begin Lebanon evacuation; US citizens have joined the droves of foreigners based in Beirut already fleeing the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Lucy FielderContributor to The Christian Science Monitor BEIRUT, LEBANON -- The McVicar family heard the first boom while they stood in the check-in queue last week at Beirut's airport, hoping to board a plane home to the United States. "And then a man behind ...
'Revolving door' crowds British prisons with repeat offenders; Blair's home secretary is set to reveal his plan Thursday for crowded jails. Two-thirds of ex-inmates are sent back to jail within two years.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Mark Rice-OxleyCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor LONDON -- When Bobby Cummines came out of jail after serving 13 years for armed robbery, he was fortunate to have a good probation officer who helped him rebuild his life. "There were many times I ...
In Burundi, the beat goes on; The drum is an important symbol invested with deep spiritual meaning in this African nation.(WORLD)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Abraham McLaughlin Contrary to images many Americans have of Africa, in three years of reporting on the continent, I haven't seen any bare-breasted women in grass skirts - or heard all that many drums. So, it was a surprise for photographer Mel Freeman and me ...
Letters.(OPINION)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 20, 2006 ... How to get Afghan militias to support the National Army Tolerating the militias in Afghanistan as proposed in Greg Mills' and Terence McNamee's July 10 Opinion piece, "Finding the 'right stuff' in Afghanistan," serves to undermine the future of that country. It is necessary to ...
Israel's goals in the present conflict; Israel must show its military strength in order to deter terror attacks.(OPINION)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Nadav Morag LOS ANGELES -- The Israeli wars with Hizbullah in Lebanon and with the Palestinians in Gaza must be seen in the context of the pressing Israeli need to reestablish some semblance of a deterrent capacity. Israel's national security policy has ...
Why D.C. loves Goldman Sachs.(OPINION)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Clay Risen WASHINGTON -- It has been a good year for Goldman Sachs, and not just because the venerable investment bank has enjoyed a 50 percent stock increase. Last week, Henry Paulson, the firm's former chair, was sworn in as Treasury secretary. Back in ...
The Fed walks tightrope on interest rates; The mission: slow inflation without causing a slump.(USA)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Mark TrumbullStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Even as US economic growth appears to be cooling a bit, inflation is not. The pressure of rising prices goes beyond oil, judging by some components of the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index (CPI), released ...
Heat wave, drought hit US farmers hard.(USA)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Amanda PaulsonStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CHICAGO -- As America wilts from triple-digit temperatures this week, farmers and ranchers in the Midwest and West have been hit especially hard. They're watching the combination of heat and, in many places, ...
Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market; Reversing course, the Japanese automaker reveals it will make hybrid cars that can go even farther on electricity.(USA)(Industry overview)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Mark ClaytonStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The plug-ins are coming. Toyota's revelation Tuesday that it will develop a new "plug-in hybrid" - which uses a wall socket at night to charge and relies on an electric motor to go many miles before ...
Bush makes first veto on stem cells; Democrats pledge to make stem-cell research, which a majority of the public backs, an issue in the fall elections.(USA)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Linda FeldmannStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The "veto bubble" has finally burst. Five-and-a-half years into his presidency, George W. Bush has ended his record stretch of bill-signings as he rejected legislation Wednesday that would expand ...
A move to lift the veil on US spending; A huge database of all contracts, grants, and appropriations is one idea gaining traction in the Senate.(USA)
Jul 20, 2006 ... Byline: Gail Russell ChaddockStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- After a nearly fruitless long war to rein in wasteful government spending, the Senate's most relentless pork-busters are trying a new tack: unleash the energies - and ire - of 10,000 ...
Politics in the pew, the pew in politics.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: The Monitor's View President Bush's veto of a stem-cell research bill on religious and moral grounds is a sign of how much faith has infused US politics. In Congress, recent votes on a measure to define marriage saw many lawmakers citing God's will. Such examples raise ...
Noteworthy new music.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Norman Weinstein Ran Blake - All That Is Tied (Tompkins Square): At age 70, Blake has released numerous solo piano albums that, alas, if the world were just, would make him a living legend. An early combiner of jazz and classical styles, Blake has also long brought to ...
Movie Guide.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Movie review)
Jul 21, 2006 ... New in Theaters Clerks II (R) Director: Kevin Smith. With Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Jason Lee. (98 min.) After the Quick Stop grocery and video store burns to the ground, Dante and Randal (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson) start work at a burger joint ....
'Monster House' is worth a visit; The scary movie for kids is beautifully rendered in motion-capture animation.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Peter RainerFilm critic of The Christian Science Monitor The new animated feature, "Monster House," has as its executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, but the real star is its first-time, 29-year-old director, Gil Kenan, whose last film was a $400 ...
Restaurant of the future? Or Gimmick? Legal Sea Foods brings high tech to the dining experience.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Teresa M㩮ezStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The buzz was all about the technology. Legal Sea Foods, purveyor of traditional New England fare, was launching the restaurant of the future - or at least of today. Dubbed Legal Test Kitchen, LTK for short, ...
Backstory: Pass the p㢴, hold the pickiness; The 'stinkier the better' culinary philosophy of French chefs' kids means fuss-free dinnertime.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Maria C. HuntContributor to The Christian Science Monitor ENCINITAS, CALIF. -- Alexandra Vignau, a talkative girl with shiny brown hair and dark eyes, is a pretty typical third-grader. Like her girlfriends in San Diego, she's in love with horses, singer Shania Twain, and ...
Superman and me: yesterday and today; Being a fan of Superman was easier as a kid than it is as an adult.(WEB)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Jeremy Daubercsmonitor.com I've followed his adventures since I was a kid, and know how hard it is at times to be a fan. I feel bad for Superman. I'm sorry, but I do. Not because he's the last son of Krypton and thus all alone; not because all of his friends ...
Shyamalan's 'Lady' doesn't hold water.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Movie review)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Peter RainerFilm critic of The Christian Science Monitor M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" should be called "Dead in the Water." The idea for this ingrown idyll grew out of bedtime stories Shyamalan concocted for his daughters. One wonders if the girls had the ...
Life after the 30-second advertising spot; In response to ad-skipping technology, advertisers are turning ads into a storytelling medium.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Gloria GoodaleStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LOS ANGELES -- Network television has always used its shows to sell the sponsor's soap. But as audiences find more ways to zap those commercial messages (think TiVo) and spend less time watching TV overall, ...
Linked together; Caddies play the role of spouse, friend, confidant, and whipping boy.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Erik SpanbergCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor As Lanny Wadkins approached the first hole of a playoff that would determine the winner of the 1977 PGA Championship, tensions were running high. He was about to go head-to-head with Gene Littler, a past US Open ...
A taste of 'old' Europe; Legrace Benson of Ithaca, N.Y., spent 10 days in Albania.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Where did you go? Tirana, Krujee, and Durrees Plazh, in Albania. Tirana is the capital today. Krujee was the capital in late medieval times when Skanderbeg, the national hero, ruled. Durrees Plazh is the beach resort area adjacent to the seaport city of Durrees, an important Adriatic port ...
Into it: Janet Evanovich; Author Janet Evanovich, what are you ...(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... ... Reading? What I'm actually reading is Uncle Scrooge No. 355. have a subscription to Uncle Scrooge comics and they're wonderful because they're in this glossy, color format. I've been reading Uncle Scrooge since I was a little kid. Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and ...
Monitor picks.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Judy, Judy, Judy Zing went the heartstrings of Judy Garland fans everywhere when this latest compilation of their girl's top 20 songs came out on CD last month. The Essential Judy Garland, a collection of hits from her so-called golden era, a decade of recording with Capitol ...
Tubegazing: The Messengers.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Stephen Humphries The Messengers (TLC, starts July 23, 10 p.m. EDT): TLC's search for "the next great inspirational speaker" gives fresh meaning to televangelism. "The Messengers" brings together 10 orators - ranging from a Muslim youth lecturer to a social worker - and ...
A portable hard drive for photo transfers on the road.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Gloria Goodale So, you're on vacation and you've got a full week of Kodak moments to go, but a full week of photos already in the digital camera. Now, thousands of miles from your computer, your camera is blinking the bad news in your face: "memory card full." What do ...
If the pieces don't fit; A Christian Science perspective on daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 21, 2006 ... When I felt that the time was right for me to attend graduate school, I found a school in Cincinnati that offered me financial aid and a teaching position. But there were significant arrangements to make, such as where my daughter and I would live and where she would attend ...
Into the world with a nudge and a flap; How fledglings approach their first flight is much like how humans face something new.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Bill Sherwonit Stepping out the front door on my way to get the Sunday newspaper, I glance to my left, toward a birch tree at the lawn's edge. A wooden box is nailed to the birch about eight feet off the ground. And within that box is a brood of seven boreal chickadees, ...
Ins and outs of the ups and downs.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Ruth Walker I continue to learn from the questions my colleagues ask. A simple question about whether to capitalize a phrase in a magazine article prompted me to think about the role of the media in holding governments and other powerful actors to account. An ...
Iraq's police overwhelmed by violence; More than 3,000 Iraqis were killed in June, an escalation of the country's death toll.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Dan MurphyStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BAGHDAD -- At her home in central Baghdad, Niran al-Sammarai frets over the fate of her husband, kidnapped Saturday with 30 of his colleagues from a conference hall in one of the most heavily patrolled parts of ...
Hong Kong democrat speaks; Anson Chan, the former No. 2 in Hong Kong, broke a four-year silence to advocate democracy.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Robert MarquandStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HONG KONG -- When Anson Chan resigned as the longtime No. 2 of this city in 2001, she was legendary - hailed as a brilliant civil servant under both the British and Chinese. She left office amid a standing ...
Learning curve: Congolese master ballot basics; Part of voter education is getting people interested in voting, because elections here used to be worthless.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Mike PflanzCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, CONGO -- In the gloom of a dusty meeting hall, a circle of women in bright head scarves sit on hard school chairs, concentrating on what Felicien Nzitatira is writing on the blackboard: "Why to vote. How to ...
Israel presses Hizbullah as Lebanese flee; Israeli troops crossed into southern Lebanon for the second day Thursday, hoping to create a buffer zone 'clean of Hizbullah.'.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Joshua Mitnick and Nicholas BlanfordCorrespondents of The Christian Science Monitor KIBBUTZ HANITA, ISRAEL AND TYRE, LEBANON -- Israel continued its precision incursion Thursday over the border into Lebanon as the army seeks to destroy the Hizbullah bunkers and lookout ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... * Touring the Protest: Staff writer Sara Miller Llana notes that as she and her husband were coming into Oaxaca City, Mexico, two tourists from New Zealand saw her husband reading a Mexican newspaper with a picture of the strikers. "They asked what was going on as they did not speak ...
Tsunami responders primed by recent calamities; Relief groups say survivors are getting enough aid, at least in the emergency's initial stages.(WORLD)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Michael J. CorenContributor to The Christian Science Monitor PANGANDARAN, INDONESIA -- Hundreds of police, military, and relief workers continued to clear debris as well as retrieve and bury the dead three days after a tsunami struck this once idyllic coastal resort ...
Letters.(OPINION)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Ortega should try to distance himself from Chavez The July 7 article, "In Nicaragua, old US foe rises again," overlooked a key obstacle to Daniel Ortega's presidential bid: his political correlation, if any, to Hugo Chavez. Though the involvement of Mr. Chavez in the Nicaraguan ...
The vulnerable line of supply to US troops in Iraq.(OPINION)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Patrick Lang ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- American forces in Iraq are in danger of having their line of supply cut by guerrillas. Napoleon once said that "an army travels on its stomach." By that he meant that the problem of keeping an army supplied is the prerequisite for the ...
How Iran uses wars to divert attention from nuclear program; It appears Iran's threat that Israel would be wiped off the map was not just rhetoric.(OPINION)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON -- You don't hear much any more about "road maps," the "peace process," or "land for peace." The struggle for the Middle East has apparently entered a new phase in which Iran hijacks the Palestinian cause in order to establish its ...
Can force fell Hizbullah? Sheer might may curb Hizbullah's ability to strike, but it won't eradicate the militant group, analysts say.(USA)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Howard LaFranchiStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- As Israel continues to strike inside Lebanon in a bid to rout Hizbullah, the radical Islamist group is using two weapons to wage war: rockets and, more effective, TV images of civilian ...
New Orleans arrests spark 'mercy killing' debate.(USA)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: G. Jeffrey MacDonaldCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor Days after hurricane Katrina hit, Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans looked more like a battle zone than a hospital: flooded, without power or running water, temperatures topping 100 degrees F ....
Lost in Katrina and in new homes - whose pet now?(USA)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Patrik JonssonStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ATLANTA -- There's a spot on Army Lt. Jay Johnson's bed that is heavy with emptiness, he says, and it can only be filled with his beloved Missy. He was in Iraq when his family broke the news to him ...
In Northwest water clash, a push to talk; A 'summit' may be held to address fishing, farming, and environmental concerns in the Klamath River Basin.(USA)
Jul 21, 2006 ... Byline: Brad KnickerbockerStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. -- "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." So sang (with irony) the young ladies in the musical "Oklahoma!" as the young men brawled at a country dance. A variation on ...