The Christian Science Monitor back issues from September 2007:
Perilous privacy at Virginia Tech.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Colleges didn't need last week's report on the Virginia Tech shootings to address a key finding: a faster alert during the crisis may have saved lives. Many colleges have already set blast-notice plans. But here's what needs careful study: the report's conclusions about privacy. ...
Letters to the Editor.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Public schools must offer mentors to new teachers I read with interest the Aug. 30 article, "How should teachers be graded?," and recall that for the 45 years I have been in education, I have been evaluated each year by principals, supervisors, or colleagues in five different ...
George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette: revolutionary friends.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Randy Dotinga They were quite the odd couple - a dour middle-aged frontiersman with a spotted military history and an upstart teenage Frenchman who grew up with princes and loved to think the best of everyone and everything. But it was thanks in large part to ...
When literature goes up in flames.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Yvonne Zipp In the Massachusetts Canon of Oops, there's the Big Dig, Bill Buckner, and Sam Pulsifer. The fictional hero of Brock Clarke's fifth novel, the fabulously titled An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England was a teen when he dropped a lit cigarette ...
Book bits.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2007 ... 3 books about Kerouac It was exactly 50 years ago tomorrow - on Sept. 5, 1957 - that Jack Kerouac's beat-generation classic "On the Road" first hit bookstores. This September, to celebrate that anniversary, bookstores will again be awash in Kerouac. On the Road: The ...
'A battle for the soul of education'.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo I wonder if urban teachers await each new book by Jonathan Kozol as eagerly as their students anticipated the latest Harry Potter. After all, Kozol casts a light on their classrooms that make them seem places of magic and mystery where each small ...
In 'The Assassin's Song,' a young Indian seeks to flee his past.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Terry Hong At the heart of M.G. Vassanji's sixth novel, The Assassin's Song, is an exercise in perspective. Definitions of right and wrong, truth and deception, the chosen and outcast - especially in matters having to do with religion - all depend on who's asking and ...
An Afghan village girl blossoms in the city.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Kabul -- To publish an unsigned article or to use pseudonyms is an exception to Monitor policy. The housekeeper profiled in this story is wanted by authorities in her village for running away from a betrothal made when she was 6 months old. For security reasons, the writer is not named and ...
Bush makes surprise, on-scene assessment of progress in Iraq.(WEB)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Deb Riechmann and Robert Burns Associated Press Writers Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq -- President Bush and his national security team made a first-hand, on-the-ground assessment of the war in Iraq and prospects for political reconciliation Monday before a showdown with ...
Prayer for our schools and children.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 04, 2007 ... According to the National Education Association's website, schools "continue to be one of the most secure places for our children," statistically speaking. But the NEA's "Safe Schools Program" for communities and schools shows that it isn't ignoring conditions that can lead to violence. It ...
The worries floated away as quickly as the canoe.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Robert Klose My son was in crisis. He would shortly begin middle school and had conjured up all sorts of threatening scenarios to rationalize his dread of this big step. "Some of the teachers are mean," he said, as if speaking from experience. "And what if I ...
These books present nature in living color.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Kris Bordessa Everyone knows that books have authors. But kids' picture books also need an artist to bring the writer's words to life. That's what artist Sylvia Long does. "An Egg Is Quiet" was a collaboration with author Dianna Hutts Aston. Open its pages, and speckled ...
Lebanon's rising jihadi threat.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Nicholas Blanford Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nahr Al-Bared, Lebanon -- Lebanese military helicopters flew low Monday over the smoking ruins of this Palestinian refugee camp as soldiers scoured the nearby countryside for remnants of the Al ...
Britain decides boundaries of stem-cell tech.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor LONDON -- Britain is poised to make a landmark ruling Wednesday on whether scientists can fuse human cells with animal eggs to develop stem cells for therapeutic purposes, a contentious process hitherto ...
The US and North Korea near diplomatic thaw.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The deal struck by the top US and North Korean negotiators in Geneva for North Korea to live up to its promise to give up its nuclear weapons program apparently comes with crucial US concessions. ...
At home, Korean ex-hostages face tough questions.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Robert Neff and Donald Kirk Contributor of The Christian Science Monitor | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Seoul, South Korea; and Washington -- The ordeal of Korean Christian aid workers at the hands of Taliban captors in Afghanistan has provoked bitter ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... * Happy to Pose: As Lebanese troops celebrated the end of fighting militants at the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli, Lebanon, the atmosphere changed notably, says correspondent Nicholas Blanford (see story). "Now that they're no longer fighting, the soldiers love having their pictures ...
Israelis debate care for Holocaust victims.(WORLD)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Tel Aviv -- Jenya Rozenshtein's identification card introduced her as a survivor of the Mogilev ghetto during the Nazi occupation of the former Soviet Union. Six decades later, she says that she's feeling ...
America's Craig-like credibility gap.(OPINION)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Douglas A. Borer MONTEREY, CALIF. -- The lack of political credibility that delineates the rapid fall from grace of Idaho's senior senator is analogous to that facing America's diminished role as global leader in 2007. At first glance, the gay-sex scandal involving ...
College counselor to parents: Relax.(OPINION)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Patrick O'Connor Detroit -- It must be September, because the parents of high school seniors are panicked about college. As a high school counselor, I did everything but give away free gas to get parents to visit me in the spring, but usually to no avail. Now, I'm buying ...
Great global shift to service jobs.(USA)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Trumbull and Andrew Downie Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Boston; and S㣯Paulo, Brazil -- The life story of Brazilian Valdir de Santos, who has gone from farmhand to taxi driver, is in essence ...
As New Orleans restarts its schools, most are now charter schools.(USA)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW ORLEANS -- In three New Orleans neighborhoods, young teachers and administrators at charter schools are preparing with haste for the doors to swing open Tuesday. In the diverse community of ...
In Padilla interrogation, no checks or balances.(USA)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor When admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complained in a Guantanamo Bay hearing earlier this year that he'd been tortured by US interrogators, the presiding military officer assured him the charges ...
Can parties impose order on '08 calendar?(USA)(Calendar)
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Ariel Sabar Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The national political parties will face a moment of truth in coming weeks: Can they impose order on a primary calendar that has states leaping over one another to host the first presidential ...
The great game over Burma.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 05, 2007 ... China and the US are budding partners in Asia - aside from their usual rivalry - after they forced North Korea to partially relent on its nuclear ambitions. Now they should work jointly on another repressive regime, Burma's junta, and free the world's most famous political prisoner, Aung ...
Letters to the Editor.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Lenders need to lessen the burden on mortgage holders In response to the Aug. 30 article, "Subprime loans face big hikes," about interest rates on homes going up, the piece made me realize that this whole subprime mortgage business is about greed and not survival. When ...
Fifty years later, 'On the Road' still beckons.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Bina Venkataraman Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Lowell, Mass. -- Fifty years after the publication of "On the Road," people still flock to Jack Kerouac's most famous work. Nearly 100,000 copies of it sell in the United States each year (up from a steady ...
In Africa, lives are improved without handouts.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Stephanie Hanes Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Beira, Mozambique -- When Joao Bueno and his team of field workers first visited the dusty village of Inhamizua, Mozambique, they knew they had a tough sell. They weren't offering money, food, or ...
A 'girlfriend getaway' unites us.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Marilyn Gardner Columnist Lake Geneva, Wis. -- "Girlfriend getaways" is the alliterative phrase the travel industry uses to describe an increasingly popular category of travelers - women who vacation now and then without the men and families in their lives. ...
Iowa farmer builds polo ground of dreams.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Sean J. Miller Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Bettendorf, Iowa -- Along a narrow country road on the edge of town here, cornfields and houses loom side by side out of the rich flat earth. It's a typical landscape in this once sleepy suburban community, ...
Family love.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 05, 2007 ... A number of years ago, my dad was ill, and I didn't think my brother was doing enough to help. It seemed as if all the weight was on my shoulders, and I was angry about it. I was also disturbed by an unspoken emotional distance between these good men that needed to be resolved. ...
Kids in the pond and a mom on the outs.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: April Austin Spring in suburban Boston always means rain showers, but last year the rains were of biblical proportions. By late May, the pond near my son's elementary school had expanded past its banks, swollen by storm-water runoff. Normally, this would be a ...
Bruschetta - love at first bite.(THE HOME FORUM)(Recipe)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Terry Miller Shannon Have you ever tasted something so exquisite you couldn't forget it? That's what happened to me last summer. The more I tried to put the dish out of my mind, the more it haunted me. On our cool, foggy Oregon coast - unlike the rest of the ...
A quieter Anbar Province rebuilds.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Gordon Lubold Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Fallujah, Iraq -- When Marine Lt. Col. Bill Mullen showed up at the city council meeting here Tuesday, everyone wanted a piece of him. There was the sheikh who wants to open a school, the judge who wants the ...
China ready to leap from industrial to information-age economy.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Beijing -- After 30 years of securing China's role as the cut-rate factory to the world, its central planners are pouring money and political will into becoming an innovation economy. But like other ...
Elusive credit means Zambians build slowly.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Joseph J. Schatz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Lusaka, Zambia -- Like many towns and cities across Africa, the landscape of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, is dotted with partially built houses. One of them belongs to Kelvin Phiri, a 30-year-old ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... * With the Troops in Iraq: Pentagon staff writer Gordon Lubold, now embedded with American forces in Iraq, has found his level of access surprisingly good. During his last visit to the field in 2004, he says that the media was seen by US officials as not only the messenger that the war ...
Ireland steps up as immigration leader.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Seaver Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor Dublin, Ireland -- As Europe wrestles with its relatively new status as an immigrant continent, an unlikely leader is emerging: Ireland. Historically known for its high emigration rates, the island ...
Cambodia's garment mills face impasse.(WORLD)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Erika Kinetz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Phnom Penh, Cambodia -- Not much gets made in Cambodia except clothes. Garments account for an astonishing 80 percent of this impoverished Southeast Asian nation's exports, and the World Bank ...
Are CEOs worth that much more?(OPINION)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Sarah Anderson Washington -- Healthy democracies and dynamic economies require strong leadership in every sector of society. But current pay practices send quite a different message: Only corporate leadership really matters. The enormous size of today's CEO ...
Gun debate muzzles the middle ground.(OPINION)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Rachel Graves Orlando, Fla. -- Two years ago, Florida enacted a law that allows anyone who feels threatened anywhere to use deadly force. Today the National Rifle Association (NRA) is shepherding similar laws through legislatures across the country. The ...
Thompson to face high expectations.(USA)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- He has played both a real president (Ulysses S. Grant) and a fictional one on TV, and now, at last, former actor/senator/lobbyist Fred Thompson is ready to audition for the real deal, as he ...
Air taxi an upgrade for the private jet set.(USA)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- In a hangar outside Boston sits a small, sleek jet waiting for final approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to take to the skies with paying passengers. It's the first Very ...
Bush recasting the war as not just about Iraq.(USA)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- It was hardly happenstance that President Bush chose to visit Iraq's Anbar Province on Monday - and not Baghdad - to set the stage for crucial congressional deliberations on US Iraq policy. ...
Hudson River to get 24/7 scrutiny.(USA)
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Over the centuries, New York's Hudson River has borne a nation's cargo, inspired its first unique art tradition, and absorbed the detritus of millions of people within its watershed. Now, the ...
Heading off subprime woes.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Interest rates are about to reset for an estimated 2.5 million holders of subprime mortgages. That will increase their monthly payments 30 to 50 percent. That may well set off a new wave of foreclosures, hurt credit markets again, perhaps increasing the risk of recession. Should government ...
Letters to the editor.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Don't legitimize terrorism as a 'holy war' In response to the Sept. 4 article, "Lebanon's jihadi threat," I am writing to ask that the Monitor and other newspapers start using accurate terminology when referring to terrorists, specifically those who do it in the name of Islam. ...
A mosque in America's heartland.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Jane Lampman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Perrysburg, Ohio -- From Interstate 75, the sight is striking: A gleaming white mosque with twin minarets in the classical Islamic style rises out of the Ohio countryside. A visit to the Islamic Center ...
Early alcohol use leads to abuse.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor For six years, John Donovan's "hobby" was to dig up hard-to-find data on children's use of alcohol. With so much attention paid to binge drinking by high-schoolers and college students, he wanted to ...
US sends a jazzy message overseas.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Moises Velasquez-Manoff Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- Like many a musician, bassist Ari Roland has long dreamt of changing the world with music. Now, as a State Department-funded "jazz ambassador," that dream has come true. A native New ...
On the horizon: news from the frontiers of science.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Peter N. Spotts Astronomers solve asteroid mystery Imagine reconstructing an entire game of billiards from the last few shots. That's akin to the "what dunnit" US and Czech astronomers assigned themselves. They were looking for the source of a ...
A New Hampshire mom walks her talk for Ron Paul.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Ariel Sabar Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Dover, N.H. -- Before her recent leap into presidential politics, Kelly Halldorson, in bell-bottoms and Birkenstocks, would have struck most folks as little more than a slightly crunchy soccer mom. She drives a ...
God provides the music.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 06, 2007 ... I had once played both piano and organ, but when family responsibilities became heavy, I quit playing. Then, after many years without performing, I received a call from an old friend, asking me to play the organ for her husband's funeral. My heart reached out to her, and as much ...
The silent treatment: a quiz for kids.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Felice Prager How many of these words can you guess? They all have at least one silent letter. A silent letter is needed to spell the word correctly, but it isn't pronounced. We have given you the silent letter in each word to help you figure them out. (Note: silent e's ...
Althea Gibson: tennis champ, sports pioneer.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Jessica Worful Tennis star Althea Gibson had game. Whether she was playing in the streets of Harlem in New York City or on a court in France, Ms. Gibson was a fierce competitor. So much so that in 1957 she became the first African-American to win Britain's most famous ...
India's intriguing backwaters.(THE HOME FORUM)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Bina Venkataraman Kumarakom, India -- I came to explore the backwaters of the state of Kerala, a region popularized in Arundhati Roy's novel "The God of Small Things," with my father, who grew up in a neighboring state. Close to the Arabian Sea, this 550-mile network of ...
Can Ch㡶z free FARC hostages?(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Sibylla Brodzinsky Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Bogot㡬colombia -- Juan Sebastian Lozada tries not to get his hopes up too high. His mother has been a hostage of Colombia's leftist rebels for six years, one of 45 pawns in a deadlocked political ...
British see Army bruised by Iraq.(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor London -- When 18,000 British troops took control of southern Iraq after the 2003 invasion, they did so with a formidable reputation enhanced by successful recent interventions in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and ...
Israel to grant Darfur refugees citizenship.(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Jerusalem -- Israel said Wednesday that it would grant citizenship to several hundred refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan, following a burgeoning debate over how to handle the influx of refugees from the ...
'Massive' bombing plot puts home-grown terror under Europe's spotlight.(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: William Boston Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Berlin -- Just days before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, European security forces in Germany and Denmark uncovered two terrorist cells that officials said ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... * A Maidless Saudi: Reporter Rasheed Abou-Alsamh admits that he doesn't see Asian maids the way most Saudis do. "As a Saudi-American who did not grow up with maids, I've always viewed them as approachable and treated them as I would any other human being. This has gotten me ...
Cases of abuse rise for Saudi foreign help.(WORLD)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Rasheed Abou-Alsamh Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- The brutality of attacks on four Indonesian maids last month in the Saudi town of Aflaj shocked even the most hardened observers in this kingdom, where employers have a long ...
Deepening the American dream.(OPINION)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Eduardo J. Padr㮠 Miami -- There are those who tell us that faith in the American dream is dying; that the dream is now more an illusion of material success at the expense of deeper traditions. The philosopher Jacob Needleman, in his essay "Two Dreams ...
Stopping forest loss in the land of Thoreau.(USA)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Caitlin Carpenter Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor It's enough to make Henry David Thoreau weep. New England - the home of Vermont maple trees bursting with sweet syrup, and balsam fir and red spruce spread across New Hampshire's White Mountains - ...
Iraq progress report: views at war.(USA)
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- Violence in Iraq is down - unless it isn't. The surge of US troops into Baghdad has eliminated havens for outlaws - or not. The Iraqi government has sent three brigades to help curb Baghdad violence ...