The World and I articles from January 2005

The World and I archives from January 2005

Choosing Life: Developing a Common Vision for Korea.
January 1, 2005... Paul F. Chamberlin is president of Korea-U.S. Consulting Inc. and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Yahweh is recorded as saying in Deuteronomy (30:10) that "I have set before you...

Moving Beyond the "Sunshine Policy".
January 1, 2005... The Hon. Chi Ho Lew is former ambassador of South Korea to Yemen. With Kim Dae-jung, the former president of the Republic of Korea and the Nobel Peace Prize winner succeeded by President Roh Moo-hyun of the same political party, a review of...

Another Dynastic Power Transfer in North Korea?
January 1, 2005... Jong-Heon Lee is a correspondent with United Press International. The death during the summer of North Korea's "respected mother" Ko Yong Hi, wife of Kim Jong-il, has posed a question: Will there be another dynastic succession of power in...

The Economic Approach to Sociology.
January 1, 2005... James S. Coleman is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Sociological Research Association, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Sociology is a discipline...

Calder and Miro: Two Artists of a Century.
January 1, 2005... Joanna Shaw-Eagle, as art critic for The Washington Times, has received first place for arts criticism for daily newspapers from the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001 and 2004. She has also written in Art...

Caio Fonseca's Stunning One-Man Show.
January 1, 2005... Joanna Shaw-Eagle, as art critic for The Washington Times, has received first place for arts criticism for daily newspapers from the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001 and 2004. She has also written in Art...

Vanity Fair Shows Mira Nair's Flair for Novelty and "Outsiderism".
January 1, 2005... Scott Galupo has written for Legislative Digest on Capitol Hill, TechCentralStation.com, and National Review Online. He is now a film critic and features writer for The Washington Times. When Mira Nair landed in her native India for a...

The Drama Behind Star Wars.
January 1, 2005... Gary Arnold is a writer for The Washington Times. Star Wars Trilogy, the first DVD edition of George Lucas' science- fiction adventure saga, looms as an irresistible gift for moviegoers who first formed an attachment to this...

In the Depression Era, Gangsters' Spree Prompted Rise of the "G-men".(Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Michael Hedges covers defense and security issues for the Houston Chronicle's Washington bureau. PUBLIC ENEMIES: AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI, 1933-34 By Bryan Burrough Penguin Press, $27.95, 592 pages,...

Of Mischief and Havoc: Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer in His Centennial Year.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Bruce Allen writes regularly about new and classic fiction for the Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The Sewanee Review, and several other publications. He lives in Kittery, Maine. ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: COLLECTED STORIES By Isaac Bashevis...

A Tale of Lost Treasure That Proves True.(Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Bart McDowell is a former editor of Natioinal Geographic. VALVERDE'S GOLD: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST GREAT INCA TREASURE By Mark Honigsbaum Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 348 pages This treasure tale is true. And the treasure...

Truthful, Sweet Story of Refugee Life, by a Writer in Her Prime.(Heir to the Glimmering World)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Martin Rubin is a writer and critic in Pasadena, California. HEIR TO THE GLIMMERING WORLD By Cynthia Ozick Houghton Mifflin, $24, 310 pages Cynthia Ozick, a fierce and passionate polemicist in her essays, is notable in her...

A Cockroach-like Robot Leads a New Research Effort.
January 1, 2005... A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait--how they move without falling over. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced in September a $5 million,...

Mystery of a Salty Survivor.(ability of halobacterium to repair DNA could be boon to safeguarding against space radiation)
January 1, 2005... You can learn a lot from a microbe. Right now, a tiny creature from the Dead Sea is teaching scientists new things about biotechnology, cancer, possible life on other worlds. And that's just for starters. This microbe, called Halobacterium, may...

China's "Green Great Wall" Aims to Halt Desertification.
January 1, 2005... Yan Tai is deputy national desk editor at the World Journal, the largest Chinese-language daily newspaper in North America. She was formerly a correspondent for United Press International in Hong Kong. When Enhebatu Togochog left for...

Christian Proselytizers Face Government Hurdles in Largely Muslim Malaysia.
January 1, 2005... Ioannis Gatsiounis is a freelance writer. In multiethnic Malaysia, where Islam is the official faith but freedom of religion is guaranteed under the constitution, the majority Malays are born Muslim and apostasy is all but impossible for...

Former Soldiers Trade Guns for Scarce Textbooks in War-torn Sudan.
January 1, 2005... James Palmer is a writer with The Washington Times. Joseph Arok quit school in 1993 at 12 years of age to join southern Sudan's fight for liberation against the government in the north. Now, at 23, Arok has set aside his automatic rifle and...

The Formation of the United States.
January 1, 2005... Gordon L. Anderson is secretary-general of the Professors World Peace Academy and publisher of the International Journal on World Peace. He is editor of Morality and Religion in Liberal Democratic Societies and The Family in Global Transition....

The Tension Between Tribalism and Globalization.(Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Kenneth Gray is professor of international business at the School of Business and Industry at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. JIHAD VS. McWORLD: HOW GLOBALISM AND TRIBALISM ARE RESHAPING THE WORLD By Benjamin Barber...

The World's Kidnapping Epidemic.(Ransom: The Untold Story of International Kidnapping)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Vera Laska is professor of history at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. RANSOM: THE UNTOLD STORY OF INTERNATIONAL KIDNAPPING By Ann Hagedorn Auerbach New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998 481 pages, $25.00 "Kashmir...

Communicating Peace and Social Justice Through Families Worldwide.(Internet, telecommunications and mass media)
January 1, 2005... Norge W. Jerome is professor emerita of preventive medicine University of Kansas School of Medicine. As founder of the Committee (now Council) of Nutritional Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association in the early seventies,...

The Unity of Man and Science.
January 1, 2005... D.H.R. Barton is a Nobel laureate in chemistry who is a professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University in College Park, Texas. This article was presented as an address at the Twentieth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences....

Rewinding the Circadian Clock: 24-hour Bodily Cycles Are Not to Be Taken Lightly.
January 1, 2005... Christian Toto is a writer for The Washington Times. That morning light shining through the bedroom blinds does more than trumpet the start of another day. It triggers our circadian rhythms, telling the body's systems when to gear up for a...

Brittle Bones: Osteoporosis Is Affected by Age and Lack of Vitamin D.
January 1, 2005... Jen Waters is a writer for The Washington Times. Margaret Lucas of Washington, D.C., has pain in her bones. Her discomfort started after eight months of chemotherapy for colon cancer. Since her doctors are concerned that the treatment may...

Pac Is Back: Craze Turns Homes Into Eighties Arcades.(retro games like Pac-Man gain popularity as video games)
January 1, 2005... David Eldridge is a writer for The Washington Times. Why didn't somebody see this one coming? In a culture that is obsessively, endlessly recycling and reliving its own past (A "new" Beatles album, The Brady Bunch on DVD, Jim Carrey is the...

Sailing Far South: Surprises on a Trip Around Cape Horn.
January 1, 2005... Fred and Karen Eckert are writers for The Washington Times. "This is fantastic--it's far nicer than I had expected. The scenery is outstanding, the cities are pleasant, sort of European, and the people are very polite, very friendly." This...

Cybercafes From Cyberia to the Phlegmatic Dog.
January 1, 2005... T.K. Malloy is a writer for United Press International. Like ATMs, it may seem that cybercafes--these hip-hubs of access to the world of the Internet--have always been here, but it has only been ten years ago that the world's first Internet...

East Timor and Australia Wrestle Over Riches Beneath the Sea.
January 1, 2005... Janaki Kremmer is a writer with The Washington Times. Not so long ago, Australians were being feted for helping tiny East Timor, their northern neighbor, gain independence from Indonesia. But a tug of war over riches lying at the bottom of...

Russian Bear and Chinese Tiger Prowl for Footholds in Kazakhstan.
January 1, 2005... Douglas Burton has worked as an editor of Insight on the News and is freelance writer based in Greenbelt, Maryland. ALMATY, Kazakhstan It is said that President Nursultan Nazarbayev wakes up every day in Astana, his spanking-new...

Rebuilding Trust in the Middle East.
January 1, 2005... Alon Ben-Meir is the Middle East project director at the World Policy Institute and a professor of international relations at New York University. While the carnage in Israel and the occupied territories continued (during the first week of...

The Horrors of Housing on Indian Reservations.
January 1, 2005... Donna Borak is a correspondent with United Press International. Viola Kennison is no stranger to living in an overcrowded home under substandard conditions, without a job, and with no personal space. She's been living through it almost...

Eudora Welty as Photographer: A Passionate Observer.
January 1, 2005... Lloyd Eby is a contributing editor with The World & I Online. Editor's Note: Eudora Welty's estate does not allow her photographs to be used to illustrate online articles. Otherwise, we would have offered you examples of her brilliant work....

Tragic and Melodramatic: A Profile of Stendhal.
January 1, 2005... Cynthia Grenier is a contributing editor with The World & I Online. Stendhal, one of the giants of nineteenth-century French literature, came into the world in Grenoble, January 23, 1783, as Marie-Henri Beyle, although that was only one of...

The Life and Death-at-Home of an Ordinary Person.
January 1, 2005... Peter Gorman is a freelance writer based in Joshua, Texas. Lydia Cahuaza was no one you've ever heard of. She was just an ordinary person. Mother of six, grandmother of 16. She was my mother-in-law and she died last Spring in my home at 60,...

Australia's Metropolitan Jewels.
January 1, 2005... Jeanne Conte is a freelance author who lives in Powell, Ohio. Modern cities, most with grand harbors--cosmopolitan places of unique charm and ambiance--these are the intriguing cities of Australia. However, when Americans think of Australia...

Who Should Be Blamed: Neoconservatives and Their Critics.
January 1, 2005... Dmitry Shlapentokh is a professor of history at Indiana University in South Bend, Indiana. With all the political heat of the elections and the tribulations caused by the Iraq war and economic uncertainty, a considerable part of the...

Inroduction.
January 1, 2005... The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty. Thus, ever since, North and South Korea have remained technically at war. Throughout the long decades of the Cold War, the two countries were pawns on the geostrategic...