The World and I back issues from August 2004:
Beguiled by the Brontes.(The Bronte Myth)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Daphne Athas is a novelist and essayist who received the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Mentor Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches. Lucasta Miller's encyclopedic account of works inspired by the Brontes' books and lives is also a narrative of ...
A Choosing People.(American Judaism: A History)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history emeritus at Seton Hall University. Syracuse University Press will be publishing a collection of his essays this fall. A new history of American Judaism shows its diverse nature. AMERICAN JUDAISM A History ...
Amid the Rubble: Survivors of Bam's Earthquake.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Tim Pitts is a freelance photojournalist. On December 26, 2003, a devastating earthquake struck the Kerman province of Iran, killing over 43,000 people. The earthquake, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck at 5:26 in the morning, when most of the city of Bam's 140,000 ...
The Charted Wilderness: The Map Lewis and Clark Followed.(Meriwether Lewis )
Aug 01, 2004; ... Alice Beck Kehoe is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. Lewis and Clark stand in the middle of Montana, at the junction of two rivers. Which to follow? Which can they bet will lead them to a pass through the Rockies? Lewis decides to take the river ...
On the Shores of Islands: The Ocean Feeds the Zanzibar Archipelago.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Wendy Stone is a freelance photojournalist, represented in the United States by Corbis, and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. A thousand years of trade, settlement, and Islamic expansion have left historic ruins up and down the East African coast. In the second century, the Greeks ...
Film as Political Vehicle: Two Films Offer Insight into Today's Iraq.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Film as outlet for political comment is anything but a new concept. Debatably, the two most important silent films ever made were Sergei Eisenstein's ode to the Russian Revolution Potemkin in 1916 and D.W. Griffith's less than politically correct civil war epic Birth of a Nation in 1919 ....
Antiliberal Perestroika: A New 'Transition' in Russia.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Vladimir Shlapentokh is professor in the sociology department at Michigan State University. The author wishes to thank Joshua Woods for his editorial contribution to this article. In late January 2004, Egor Gaidar, a prominent Russian democratic leader, was asked on television ...
Mountain Monarchs.(mouintain sheeps)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Dwight G. Smith is professor and chairman of the Biology Department at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. North America's wild sheep have conquered some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain, but the stability of their populations remains uncertain. ...
German Phoenix: East Berlin's Capital Statement.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Fred Stern, currently based in Loenia, New Jersey, is a writer on art and architectural subjects for ArtNet and other publications. When the Berlin Wall came down on that November day in 1989, East Berliners walked west, West Berliners east, and both found two different worlds. ...
Stromboli Calling: Where Aeolus Blows and Vulcan Fumes.(Aeolian Islands )
Aug 01, 2004; ... Peter Bridges is a freelance writer. I woke in dimness in some moving place, then realized I was in our cabin on the Vittore Carpaccio southbound from Naples. Quickly I shaved and dressed. My wife, in the top berth, was pretending to be asleep. I said, "Stromboli's coming up," ...
Lower Castes Gain an Upper Hand: Indian Political Arena Gets New Power Brokers.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Mike McPhate is a freelance writer. As Laloo Prasad Yadav, the low-caste head of the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal party in northern India's Bihar state, reclined in a lawn chair outside his mansion and aired his shirtless potbelly in the evening breeze, a villager of the ...
EU Expansion Reshapes Future of Europe: New Magazine Will Explore Ramifications.(European Union)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Louis R. Golino is a freelance writer. The largest enlargement of the European Union in its history, which formally took place on May 1, is an important geopolitical development that should be of considerable interest to Americans, specialists on Europe say. Ten ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Chasing the Elusive Man Who Designed Atomic Bombs.(Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma )(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Jeffrey Marsh is a freelance writer who has written widely on scientific topics and public issues ranging from nuclear strategy to social policy. OPPENHEIMER: PORTRAIT OF AN ENIGMA By Jeremy Bernstein Ivan R. Dee $25, 223 pages, illus. ...
Beating Heart Disease: No. 1 Killer Suffers Lack of Proper Funding.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Shelley Widhalm is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Pink ribbons remind women of breast cancer, and the Red Dress Pin is doing the job for the nation's No. 1 killer, heart disease. "Not too many years ago, we thought of heart disease as a disease of ...
The Art of Bonsai: Little Big Trees Marry Science and Aesthetics.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Christian Toto is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Bruce Lee movies inspired Terrance Adkins to take up the martial arts in the early 1970s. The iconic films also persuaded Adkins to consider Asian culture in general, and bonsai trees in particular. Adkins, 52, quickly ...
Luminously Figurative: Rare Look at Quirky West Coast Movement.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Joanna Shaw-Eagle is a staff writer for The Washington Times. The Kreeger Museum's current exhibit of San Francisco Bay-area figurative art and its offshoots is called "The True Artist Is an Amazing Luminous Fountain." That epigraph, originally written by artist Bruce Nauman in ...
Homeschooling Is in a Class of Its Own: Nontraditional Learning Gets High Marks.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Karen Goldberg Goff is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Paige Peterson had a full slate of graduation activities scheduled for last spring. The 17-year-old from Sterling Park, Virginia, participated in a graduation ceremony and dance at her boyfriend's prom. ...
Changes for Homeschoolers.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Karen Goldberg Goff is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Forty percent of colleges and universities reported an increase in applications from homeschoolers in 2003, according to the National Association of College Admission Counselors (NACAC), a professional organization ....
A Mother's Day: Today's Women Seek More Respect for the Tradition.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Cheryl Wetzstein is a staff writer for The Washington Times. The millions of flowers, cards, and phone calls shared on Mother's Day say it all: Motherhood is honored, cherished, and respected across the nation. Mothers, for the most part, accept these tokens with smiles, laughs, ...
The Warsaw Insurrection: How Polish Capital Ferociously Resisted World War II Occupiers.(Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Richard M. Watt's books of European history include Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate 1918-1939. RISING '44: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW By Norman Davies Viking $32.95, 784 pages, illus. World War II began with the 1939 invasion of Poland ...
Assessing Personality: Phlegmatic? Neurotic? Tests Can Help Find Out.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Jen Waters is a staff writer for The Washington Times. After taking the Myers-Briggs personality test, a person is categorized by four of eight distinguishing factors, but these classifications are only some of the many ways people can be understood. "For thousands of ...
Not 'Unadoptable': New Effort to Find Homes for Older Foster Children.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Lisa Rauschart is a freelance writer. The little boy was more silent than most, withdrawn really. Yet his new adoptive mother was still surprised by what happened one morning after she sent her children into the hallway so she could make up their beds. Called away unexpectedly ...
When There's More Than One.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Parents who adopt older children are sometimes faced with adopting a sibling or two. While adopting children "in sets" can be helpful for the youngsters, it can raise distinct challenges for the parents. "Wherever there are more children, there can be more troubles," says ...
Roosevelt's Reformers: How Democrats Changed During FDR Years.(The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ )(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... John S. Monagan is a retired U.S. congressman from Connecticut. His books include The Grand Panjandrum: Mellow Years of Justice Holmes and his autobiography A Pleasant Institution: Key--C Major. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ROOSEVELT Brokers of Ideas and Power From FDR to ...
Global Fund Optimistic About AIDS Battle: Growing Caseloads in India, China Cause Concern.(The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria)(interview)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2004; ... John Zarocostas is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Richard G.A. Feachem is executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. He was interviewed recently in Geneva by John Zarocostas and asked about the status of global efforts to stem the ...
Dimming of Vision: Age-Related Sight Loss in Adults 50 and Older.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Ann Geracimos is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Walter Ross, a 90-year-old New York City resident and former Reader's Digest roving editor, is legally blind from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) he has had for 37 years. He can't see enough to read or drive, and ...
Keen Eye in Handcrafting Violins.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Jen Waters is a staff for The Washington Times. David Ludwik Chrapkiewicz practices empirical science. As owner of Rapkievian Fine Violins in Washington Grove, Maryland, the violin maker uses trial and error to try to make the perfect instrument. He handcrafts about three ...
Sacrifice Is Honored: Memorial a Lasting Tribute to Heroes Who Saved the World and Changed It.(World War II)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Scott Galupo is a staff writer for The Washington Times. The World War II Memorial, sober and sunk low in a long frame of elms, rests between the two structures that anchor the Mall. The monument to America's first great warrior, George Washington, towers over it on one side ....
Value of Set Limits: A Discerning Eye.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Joanna Shaw-Eagle is a staff writer for The Washington Times. There are all kinds of art collectors, as the National Gallery's exhibit "American Masters From Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection" demonstrates. At the show's opening, Wilmerding, the ...
Poems of Old Truths Relearned.(Laws)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Amanda Kolson Hurley is a staff writer for The Washington Times. LAWS By Rachel Hadas Zoo Press $14.95, 92 pages LOAD-DATE: May 25, 2004 To say that no one reads poetry anymore is a truism. Even the best poetry written in English ...
How the State Protects Us From Ourselves.(The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Philip Gold is president of Aretea, a public and cultural affairs center, and author of Take Back the Right (forthcoming from Avalon Publishing). THE NAKED CROWD: RECLAIMING SECURITY AND FREEDOM IN AN ANXIOUS AGE By Jeffrey Rosen Random House ...
Wise Up With Chess: Youngsters Take Benefits to Class and Real Life, Too.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Jen Waters is a staff writer for The Washington Times. Kaleem Washington of Washington, D.C., is making the right moves. As a member of Olympic Chess House in the Northeast section of the city, he practices the popular game Tuesday and Thursday evenings. He also studies chess ...
Bold Ways With Wood Floors: Varied Trees Available, but People Also Recycle.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Christian Toto is a staff writer for The Washington Times. A few years ago, homeowners who wanted a hardwood floor had anywhere from 20 to 30 tree species from which to select. Today, that number has jumped to about 52, says Edward Korczak, executive director of the St ....
The Infinite Variety of John Gielgud: Letters Reveal Modest, Compassionate Man Behind Actor's Masks.(Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Martin Rubin is a writer and critic living in Pasadena, California. SIR JOHN GIELGUD: A LIFE IN LETTERS Introduced and edited by Richard Mangan Arcade $30, 564 pages, illus. Reading the letters of a famous person--particularly one you ...
Unearthing Clues to a Global Catastrophe.(Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History )(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Charles Rousseaux is a member of the editorial board of The Washington Times. GORGON: PALEONTOLOGY, OBSESSION, AND THE GREATEST CATASTROPHE IN EARTH'S HISTORY By Peter D. Ward Viking $27.95, 257 pages The Permian extinction was the ...
Ex-Soviet Republics Chafe at the West's Call for Rights: Seven Nations Seek to Relax Guidelines of OSCE.(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Christopher Pala is a staff writer for The Washington Times. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe played a key role during the 1970s and '80s in undermining communism by introducing the spirit of human rights into the countries under Moscow's thumb. In return, ...
Acorns to Oaks: Condoleezza Rice's Journey From the Jim Crow South to the White House.(Biography)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Arthur Herstein is managing editor of the American Clergy Magazine. Condoleezza Rice has experienced a wide range of life in America. In her formative years, she experienced life under the Jim Crow system in the South. She excelled in school, established herself in the academic ...
'God's Plan' Guided Reagan's Life.(Ronald Reagan)
Aug 01, 2004; ... James G. Lakely is a writer for The Washington Times. Ronald Reagan--who endured an alcoholic father, a poor childhood, uncertain college prospects, a failed marriage, political isolation in Hollywood, a declining movie career, a failed presidential bid, and an assassination ...
Legacy: Tax Cuts and the End of the USSR.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Ralph Z. Hallow and Donald Lambro are both political correspondents at The Washington Times. Ronald Reagan changed American politics by making conservatism and tax- cutting, free-market economics popular with middle-class voters, and ending the Cold War by defeating the "Evil ...
Philosophy of Ronald Reagan Lives On in Memorable Phrases.(quotations)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Quotes by Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was noted for his eloquence and wit, both in formal speeches and in ad-libbed humor. Here are some of his memorable phrases, excerpted from The Common Sense of an Uncommon Man (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998), a book compiled by the former ...
Silver Screen to White House; President Drew on His Entertainer's Training.(Ronald Reagan )(Biography)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Gary Arnold is film critic for The Washington Times. It was a line straight out of an old movie, but hardly anyone knew that at the time. "I paid for this microphone, Mr. Green," presidential candidate Ronald Reagan thundered at debate moderator Jon Breen, getting ...
Reagan's Secret Anti-Soviet War.(Ronald Reagan)
Aug 01, 2004 ... As president of the United States, Ronald Reagan initiated a sweeping and unprecedented program of covert action and economic warfare initiatives that acted to greatly weaken the Soviet economy, its support for "wars of liberation," and its hold on its power in Eastern Europe, former top ...
Diets: Breaking an Obesogenic Society.
Aug 01, 2004 ... Recognizing no simple course will suffice to suppress the swelling epidemic of overweight, specialists are cooking up extra large helpings of potential solutions. From politicians and policymakers to industrialists and investigators, a host of concerned interests has turned up the heat on ...
Tough Love From 'America's Dad'.(african americans, Bill Cosby)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Bill Cosby wants some low-income blacks to take responsibility for their lives and their futures and seize opportunities generations of African Americans fought, sacrificed, and sometimes died for to achieve. Call it tough love, a shout, a plea, an exhortation, a wake-up call to a hip-hop ...
If the Speed of Light Can Change.
Aug 01, 2004 ... The speed of light, one of the most sacrosanct of the universal physical constants, may have been lower as recently as two billion years ago--and not in some far corner of the universe, but right here on Earth. The controversial finding is turning up the heat on an already ...
Tourists Continue Flocking to Egypt.
Aug 01, 2004; ... John Zarocostas is a writer for The Washington Times. Last year's U.S.-led war against Iraq and the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome combined to deal a severe blow to the travel industry worldwide, but Egypt defied the trend, attracting a record 6 million foreign ...
Amending the Grievances: An Eastern Shore Fable?(Roads of the Heart)(Book Review)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Carol Herman is book editor at The Washington Times. Sometimes, good people do bad things. Parents abdicate responsibilities. Husbands cheat. Wives retaliate. Children grow sullen. In the real world, some muddle through such misadventures and keep things patched. Others find ...