National Review articles from March 2007

National Review archives from March 2007

Act casual.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... In a recent edition of The Week (Dec. 18, 2006), you bemoaned the possible negative effects of a male contraceptive pill "in this age of regrettably casual promiscuity." If we took our promiscuity a bit more seriously, would the pill have your...

Sympathy for the devil.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... John Derbyshire may be NATIONAL REVIEW's resident atheist, but he's crossed a certain Rubicon by capitalizing the personal pronoun "His" in referring to Satan ("Flow Ho Ho," Feb. 12). I don't know whether Anton LaVey and his Church of Satan...

All in good time.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Though I agree with Ramesh Ponnuru's incisive take in many of its particulars ("The Home Front," Feb. 12), the sad truth is that the conservative resurgence is mostly out of our hands. Only when liberal government becomes intolerable to...

Child's play.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... In "The Home Front," Ramesh Ponnuru avers that our tax system benefits the childless at the expense of their more fecund countrymen. Yet as the average age of first-time parents goes up, the higher taxes Ponnuru suggests aiming at "affluent...

Barack Obama is complaining that the press doesn't take him seriously enough.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Barack Obama is complaining that the press doesn't take him seriously enough. Just this once, we're going to side with the media.

Like a lot of battle plans, Senate majority leader Harry Reid's didn't survive contact with the enemy.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Like a lot of battle plans, Senate majority leader Harry Reid's didn't survive contact with the enemy. He wanted his troops to inflict damage on President Bush by voting for a resolution against the surge. That would have been an easy vote for...

When it was reported that Speaker Pelosi had requested a military plane big enough to fly her and her entourage coast to coast nonstop, Republicans delightedly pounced on a scandalous "Air Pelosi" story.(The Week)(Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... When it was reported that Speaker Pelosi had requested a military plane big enough to fly her and her entourage coast to coast nonstop, Republicans delightedly pounced on a scandalous "Air Pelosi" story. The plane she purportedly requested can...

Sen. Hillary Clinton said that the record profits of "the oil companies" should be put in an alternative-energy fund.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Sen. Hillary Clinton said that the record profits of "the oil companies" should be put in an alternative-energy fund. She is right about the record profits: ExxonMobil made $39.5 billion last year, more than any other company in history. But...

60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough.".(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough." The Senator articulated inter alia that: "I... notice when I'm catching a cab, nobody's confused about that." In a later...

"What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?".(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?" What if, indeed? You won't get the answer in the Iowa caucuses, since Amanda Marcotte, who posted the question on her blog, no longer works for...

Three and a half years after the explosion over the CIA leak controversy, we have the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Three and a half years after the explosion over the CIA leak controversy, we have the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. And what have we learned? Well, testimony has revealed that...

Most of the commentary on President Bush's proposed 2008 budget has portrayed it as a blowout.(The Week)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Most of the commentary on President Bush's proposed 2008 budget has portrayed it as a blowout. It is indeed big: $2.9 trillion, up a trillion from when Bush took office. Much of that increase is attributable to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

A tired old song.
March 5, 2007... WHAT do Jimmy Carter and the Dixie Chicks have in common? They're southerners who've traded "up" on their southernness. They hit their best moments long ago, but have ridden positive press far beyond their natural shelf life. They think a lot...

Our trading partners are pressuring us to reduce our farm subsidies, and record-high crop prices make it a good time to act.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Our trading partners are pressuring us to reduce our farm subsidies, and record-high crop prices make it a good time to act. So President Bush has proposed cutting farm subsidies by as much as $4.5 billion over the next ten years. It is a...

Eliot Spitzer, the new Democratic governor of New York, is in a fight with the legislature over filling the position of the state's chief financial officer.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Eliot Spitzer, the new Democratic governor of New York, is in a fight with the legislature over filling the position of the state's chief financial officer. Spitzer nominated three number crunchers, but the Democratic-controlled Assembly chose...

And now to North Korea: when did Kim Jong Il become trustworthy?(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... And now to North Korea: When did Kim Jong Il become trustworthy? That's the question one asks in response to the deal over North Korea's nuclear program. Kim will get $400 million in fuel oil in exchange for shutting down the Yongbyon nuclear...

Senior American military officials gave a briefing in Baghdad on Iranian weapons that have killed 170 Americans and wounded 620 since 2004: EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, that release armor-cutting molten copper balls.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Senior American military officials gave a briefing in Baghdad on Iranian weapons that have killed 170 Americans and wounded 620 since 2004: EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, that release armor-cutting molten copper balls. The briefers...

If there is one aspect of War on Terror diplomacy that robs administration officials of their sleep more than any other, it is surely the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... If there is one aspect of War on Terror diplomacy that robs administration officials of their sleep more than any other, it is surely the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. John Negroponte testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee in January that...

The number of nations that extend formal diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China (which is to say, Taiwan) rather than to the People's Republic of China (Red China) is down to 24.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The number of nations that extend formal diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China (which is to say, Taiwan) rather than to the People's Republic of China (Red China) is down to 24. Grenada dropped off the list in January 2005, in return...

A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of cigarette smoke.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of...

The human-interest story of the fortnight is surely the one about Lisa Nowak, the lovesick astronaut.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The human-interest story of the fortnight is surely the one about Lisa Nowak, the lovesick astronaut. Aside from offering a rich trove of similes, allusions, and puns to witty editorialists ("star-crossed," "moonbat," "lust in space," "fatal...

The rule of gambling is that the house always wins.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The rule of gambling is that the house always wins. It is also the rule of sexual objectification and runaway celebrity culture, as Anna Nicole Smith's life showed. At moments she seemed the capable mistress of her fate. Who didn't smile when...

A little insight into the way we live now was offered the other day by Rick Kushman, TV columnist of the Sacramento Bee.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... A little insight into the way we live now was offered the other day by Rick Kushman, TV columnist of the Sacramento Bee. Mr. Kushman had been hobnobbing with studio people, and retailed the following story. Marc Cherry, the creator of ABC's hit...

Not all rallies are reported equal.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Not all rallies are reported equal. Washington recently saw two big public demonstrations: the March for Life, marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and another let's-abandon-Iraq-and-impeach-that-bastard-Bush extravaganza. None of the...

Sometimes a nomination needs a warning label.(The Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Sometimes a nomination needs a warning label. When the National Book Critics Circle picked Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept as one of five finalists in the criticism category, Eliot Weinberger, who announced the selections, called Bawer's book...

Thrill Me.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... THRILL ME Brownback doesn't; Huckabee's Too jejune to be my squeeze. Giuliani sounds like Oz, While McCain's recalling Ma's Souffle just before it fell. Romney's tugging at my bell, But the darned thing won't...

Terrorism? Islam? What connection?(This Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Terrorism? Islam? What connection? So implied Long Island University when it fired five seniors from their jobs as residence-hall assistants for making a spoof hostage video. In the film, which turned up on YouTube, the quintet demanded...

George Santayana, who taught there, called Harvard the "toy Athens" of America.(This Week)(Harvard University)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... George Santayana, who taught there, called Harvard the "toy Athens" of America. The toy Athens is looking pretty ragged these days. Harvard replaced former president Larry Summers, ousted in a faculty-led coup, with Drew Gilpin Faust. Faust...

The University of Wisconsin has decided to hire its first military-history professor in 15 years--an action that the student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, credits NATIONAL REVIEW with motivating.(This Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The University of Wisconsin has decided to hire its first military-history professor in 15 years--an action that the student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, credits NATIONAL REVIEW with motivating. Last fall, NR's John J. Miller reported on the...

The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism is given once a year, to a journalist who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism.".(This Week)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism is given once a year, to a journalist who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism." The award is worth $20,000. There is...

Rudy's run.(2008)(Rudy Giuliani)
March 5, 2007... RUDY GIULIANI is a compelling candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. He saved New York City, by restoring law and order and breaking with the disastrous urban liberalism of the 1970s. He will forever be honored for his...

Planet Gore.(PUBLIC POLICY)(Al Gore)
March 5, 2007... THE U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a summary of its latest report. The release has had the intended effect: generating fresh gloom and doom about global warming. The New York Times described the report as...

Ralph de Toledano, R.I.P.(OBITUARY)(Obituary)
March 5, 2007... RALPH DE TOLEDANO was the saddest man I ever knew. One only hopes that his death on February 3, at 90, ended that sadness, though it requires a very dogmatic belief in God to be confident of it. I heard from Toledano ("not de Toledano," he...

The great audacious hope: Senator Obama kicks off.(2008)(Barack Obama )
March 5, 2007... Durham, N.H. AT a town-hall meeting in the University of New Hampshire field house, Barack Obama says people can ask any question they like and promises to answer "without equivocation." There's applause, and hands go up all around the...

A mandate in Texas: the story of a compulsory vaccination and what it means.(PUBLIC POLICY)
March 5, 2007... ON February 2, Texas became the first state to require that young girls be vaccinated against some sexually transmitted viruses. This happened when Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that students receive a new vaccine before...

The death of the Hamilton Center: a case in upstate New York has implications all over.(EDUCATION)
March 5, 2007... ON August 24, 2006, Hamilton College president Joan Stewart, one of her top deans, and three professors toasted the birth of the Alexander Hamilton Center. They poured champagne, clinked glasses, and anticipated a bright future for their new...

Plots to behead: dealing with the phenomena of our time.(AT WAR)(Essay)
March 5, 2007... READERS of NATIONAL REVIEW, I know, will jump to no hasty or unwarranted conclusions when I inform them that I happened to be in Toronto when 17 young Muslims were arrested there for plotting to blow up the Canadian parliament and behead the...

Into Africa: to Timbuktu and back.(TRAVEL)
March 5, 2007... FINDING your way around Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, should be easy to do. Wide, ramshackle boulevards radiate from plazas and monuments --this is French Africa, after all--and even the hovel-lined dirt alleys are organized into a...

More: the crying need for a bigger U.S. military.
March 5, 2007... IN 1979, the captain of the USS Canisteo refused to certify his ship as seaworthy, because, in his opinion, his men had not been adequately trained. It was the first time in 15 years that a U.S. Navy captain had refused to take his ship to sea....

Fever in the Alps: global elites and global warming.(THE WORLD)(Essay)
March 5, 2007... Davos, Switzerland EVERY year, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum has a theme, and this year it's "The Shifting Power Equation." But the real theme here in Davos is global warming--it's on everyone's lips, and everyone's brain....

Huxley's period piece: Brave New World turns 75.(ESSAY)(Critical essay)
March 5, 2007... THIS year marks the 75th birthday of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, first published in February 1932. That novel became one of the most discussed works of literature of the 20th century. Its title, which Huxley took from Shakespeare's...

Our last nerve.(the bent pin)(Essay)
March 5, 2007... AMONG the intimacies that used to be saved for marriage were the words, "If you do that one more time I'll scream." Nerve-wracking, however, is not what it used to be. Our era of overexposed celebrities has turned us into molar-grinding...

Global warming.(HELP!!!)(Poem)
March 5, 2007... Global Warming I know Greenland is melting. I know the polar bears Look poorly in the Arctic; But I get those rude stares When, itchy in my woolies And Bloomingdale's best hide, I whispered to the...

Transcript from Larry King Live: February 10, 2008.(the long view)(Discussion)
March 5, 2007... LARRY KING: "Tomorrow night! The whole hour with former presidential candidate John Edwards, direct from the Wayside County Men's Correctional Facility! From Appleton, Wisconsin, hello!" CALLER: "Hi, Larry. Hi, Senator Clinton. I was...

Fight the real enemy.(The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11)(Book review)
March 5, 2007... The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza (Doubleday, 352 pp., $26.95) DINESH D'SOUZA's new book about the blame for 9/11 begins with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln--one that I did not know...

Bio hazard.(Next)(Book review)
March 5, 2007... Next, by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, 448 pp., $27.95) IN reviewing Next, Michael Crichton's new novel of the biotech future, I have to begin with a disclosure. Crichton now footnotes his novels, and in the endnotes to this one he cites...

St. John of Harvard yard.(Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition)(Book review)
March 5, 2007... Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition, by David Lewis Schaefer (Missouri, 368 pp., $24.95) HARVARD philosopher John Rawls's death in 2002 generated obituaries even more embarrassingly pompous than the sort...

To The Haunted Child.(Poem)
March 5, 2007... TO THE HAUNTED CHILD The circles underneath your violet eyes remain with me once I have closed my own. I know those ghosts the nightlight will disguise. I've seen the starkness in the half-starved bone, the straining...

God, man & sex.(book reviews)(Book review)
March 5, 2007... THE name of Milton Himmelfarb would deserve immortality if only for his coinage of the famous aphorism that Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans. A new anthology of his writings, Jews and Gentiles (Encounter, 273 pp.,...

And the winner is ...
March 5, 2007... WHY do we still care about the Oscars? The world of cinema is so awash in awards shows that nearly every movie gets to call itself a winner: If your favorite film doesn't take the New York Film Critics Circle laurels, maybe the London Critics'...

Move on.(CITY DESK)(newspaper Master's Voice )(Essay)
March 5, 2007... A MORGUE is a place where bodies are stored; a newspaper's morgue is a place where clippings are filed. Bodies lie in a morgue temporarily, awaiting burial; clippings are not buried, but slumber in their folders until the moment when someone...

China up there.(on the right)
March 5, 2007... NEW YORK, JANUARY 19 In August, President Bush approved a new U.S. policy on space exploration and on the military and commercial uses of space. The White House announced that the United States would not agree to any arrangements that...

Politics for a billion.(on the right)
March 5, 2007... NEW YORK, JANUARY 23 The round number is now $500 million. Five hundred million dollars is what each major party's presidential nominee is expected to spend between now and November 4, 2008. Today's story focuses on Hillary Clinton's...

Howard Hunt, R.I.P.(on the right)(rest in peace)(Biography)
March 5, 2007... NEW YORK, JANUARY 26 My name has been linked to that of Howard Hunt, who died on January 23, and I readily acknowledge that we were associates and close friends during the period (1951-52) when I worked for the CIA in Mexico. Howard Hunt...

We must go from Korea.(Letter to the editor)
March 19, 2007... I would like to comment briefly on Jim Talent's excellent article "More," calling for a bigger U.S. military (March 5). While I agree with him on the need to keep the armed forces equipped and staffed properly for their missions, I also can't...

Enemies at home and abroad.(Letter to the editor)
March 19, 2007... Some points on Roger Kimball's review of Dinesh D'Souza's new book, The Enemy at Home ("Fight the Real Enemy," March 5): American culture, under the persistent encouragement of the organized Left and its judges, has deteriorated terribly in...

Just a few trillions.(Letter to the editor)
March 19, 2007... In a recent edition of The Week (March 5), you stated that the "big news" about the 2008 budget proposed by President Bush "is that this budget makes a serious effort to rein in runaway entitlement costs." Thanks--I haven't had such a hearty...

Intelligent design?(Letter to the editor)
March 19, 2007... If I have it right, John Derbyshire believes that we must stop imagining that the warning proffered in Brave New World applies to our circumstances ("Huxley's Period Piece," March 5)--after all, designer babies "ought to be welcomed by free...

Does this mean that Hillary Clinton is too unethical.
March 19, 2007... Does this mean that Hillary Clinton is too unethical for Hollywood?

Election season nominally begins with the candidates announcing their campaigns; it truly begins with the first knife fight.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Election season nominally begins with the candidates announcing their campaigns; it truly begins with the first knife fight. The Clinton and Obama camps had that little rumble, thanks to David Geffen and Maureen Dowd. Geffen, the liberal...

John Edwards has a template for making sense out of Iraq.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... John Edwards has a template for making sense out of Iraq. He told a crowd in Nashua, N.H., that our presence there was like scolding a child for not making his bed, then making the bed repeatedly. "We're continuing to enable this bad behavior."...

Al Gore enjoyed a twofer on Oscar night.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Al Gore enjoyed a twofer on Oscar night. In case An Inconvenient Truth did not win for best documentary, he was given stage time with Leonardo DiCaprio to announce that the Oscars had gone green (presenters rode to the ceremony in hybrid...

Ramesh Ponnuru has the cover story in this issue of NR, making the conservative case for John McCain.
March 19, 2007... Ramesh Ponnuru has the cover story in this issue of NR, making the conservative case for John McCain. Lest any of our dear readers be confused, this is not an official endorsement, but a bylined piece that is part of our ongoing coverage of the...

A Washington Post expose found squalid conditions in a building that houses outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... A Washington Post expose found squalid conditions in a building that houses outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Embarrassed Army officials dispatched construction crews to remove mold, patch ceiling holes, and repair elevators. The...

In its initial stages, the Baghdad troop surge has shown promise.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... In its initial stages, the Baghdad troop surge has shown promise. Shiite thug-cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has apparently fled to Iran, and he has ordered his militia not to fight us. We have been able to pick off some of his top leaders, and the...

The courts are again considering whether our treatment of detainees should follow the standards of war, or of ordinary criminal cases.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The courts are again considering whether our treatment of detainees should follow the standards of war, or of ordinary criminal cases. In the latest decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Congress had stripped...

Some people try to split the difference on abortion by saying that the unborn should be protected after "viability" but not before it.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Some people try to split the difference on abortion by saying that the unborn should be protected after "viability" but not before it. This rule wouldn't make much sense: Early-stage fetuses require congenial environments to survive and thus...

The Supreme Court threw out an $80 million judgment against Philip Morris.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The Supreme Court threw out an $80 million judgment against Philip Morris. The plaintiff's lawyer had told the jury to think about all the people whom the company was hurting when it decided how much to award in punitive damages. But the Court...

Our spending on health care will double over the next decade, according to a new government study.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Our spending on health care will double over the next decade, according to a new government study. By 2016, almost a fifth of the economy will be devoted to health care. President Bush highlighted these facts while renewing his call to reform...

"This is one area where I think people stand entirely together," says New Jersey governor Jon Corzine.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... "This is one area where I think people stand entirely together," says New Jersey governor Jon Corzine. Too true. Whether they're Democrats or Republicans, governors would like federal money to help them pay for their health-care promises. When...

Senate Democrats want to give Transportation Security Administration employees collective-bargaining power.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Senate Democrats want to give Transportation Security Administration employees collective-bargaining power. Apparently their solution to recent TSA failures is to make incompetent employees even harder to fire. Last October, TSA screeners at...

Go flat--now.(tax rates)
March 19, 2007... 'OLD SCHOOL" progressives argue that marginal tax rates should increase with income. Their political might in the U.S. has led to a tax code that is steeply progressive. The bottom half of the income distribution pays almost no tax at all. The...

Since 1994, labor unions have reportedly donated more than half a billion dollars to Democratic candidates.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Since 1994, labor unions have reportedly donated more than half a billion dollars to Democratic candidates. Now that the Democrats have control of Congress, they've decided to repay Big Labor with the disingenuously named Employee Free Choice...

"The United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.".(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... "The United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area." Such is the opinion of Russian president Vladimir Putin, voiced at a meeting of the great and the good in Munich. It is rather--how shall we say?--fresh of him to...

Tony Blair Skiddoos.(Poem)
March 19, 2007... Tony Blair Skiddoos Call him poodle if you must; He manned Basra till a gust (Peerage scandals didn't help) Blew him homeward with a yelp. Back in Blighty, where "kow-tow!" Drowns out Mr. Blair's bow-wow, ...

When the Blues and Royals, a British cavalry regiment, deploy to Iraq in the next few months, Cornet Wales will go with them.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... When the Blues and Royals, a British cavalry regiment, deploy to Iraq in the next few months, Cornet Wales will go with them. He is better known as Prince Harry, younger son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, and third in line to the throne....

Prime Minister Tony Blair lit a small firestorm by announcing that, in the coming months, 1,600 out of a total of 7,100 British troops are to be withdrawn from Basra and its surrounding province in southern Iraq.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Prime Minister Tony Blair lit a small firestorm by announcing that, in the coming months, 1,600 out of a total of 7,100 British troops are to be withdrawn from Basra and its surrounding province in southern Iraq. Also in the coming months,...

Building bridges, normally a positive act, is cause for protest and violence in Jerusalem.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Building bridges, normally a positive act, is cause for protest and violence in Jerusalem. In early February, the Israel Antiquities Authority set about building a bridge to the Temple Mount to replace a walkway that had been damaged by snow in...

The ancient Chinese system of feng shui seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The ancient Chinese system of feng shui seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings. Consider, for example, the case of Fumin County, in southwest...

"I'll put a girdle round about the earth," says one of Shakespeare's characters.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... "I'll put a girdle round about the earth," says one of Shakespeare's characters. Forbes magazine has been round the earth putting girdles on its human inhabitants--to be exact, measuring how fat the inhabitants of the world's 194 nations and...

The names of sports teams are supposed to convey certain ideas: courage, valor, pride, and so on.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... The names of sports teams are supposed to convey certain ideas: courage, valor, pride, and so on. That's why many teams, such as the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Florida State Seminoles, have chosen Indian monikers and...

Jesse Jackson thinks there are too many white people in showbiz.(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Jesse Jackson thinks there are too many white people in showbiz. This might seem like an odd judgment, given the number of nonwhite faces in those Academy Award nomination clips, and given also that showbiz has been one of the major avenues for...

Following the astronaut love triangle story, reported here in our last issue, there has been some curiosity about NASA's procedures for dealing with an astronaut who becomes unhinged while in orbit.(United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)(Brief article)
March 19, 2007... Following the astronaut love triangle story, reported here in our last issue, there has been some curiosity about NASA's procedures for dealing with an astronaut who becomes unhinged while in orbit. NASA has now supplied the details from a...

A party of twelve Americans, senior citizens on a Caribbean cruise, were set upon by three muggers when visiting the beach district in Limon, Costa Rica.
March 19, 2007... A party of twelve Americans, senior citizens on a Caribbean cruise, were set upon by three muggers when visiting the beach district in Limon, Costa Rica. The muggers brandished a knife and a gun. The tourists responded with courage and vigor....