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A Head Start to Nowhere Krista Kafer
Category: Education Published: July 2004
Four decades and $66,000,000,000 after Head Start was launched, "the school readiness gap between poor children and their middle class peers remains large. Perhaps no government program can compensate for what a hard life takes away."
 
A Misplaced Mania for Milk Amy Joy Lanou , A.R. Hogan
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2004
Increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, allergies, & possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cause constipation, ear infefections, colic, asthma. . .
 
Creating a More Secure America David Cortright
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2004
By employing cooperative engagement--the perfect antidote to the Bush Administration's insistence on preemptive unilateralism--the U.S. can bring its security doctrine more in line with global realities.
 
Death's Indelible Impression
Category: Focus on America Published: July 2004
"Sally Mann: What Remains" -- ". . . At the base of a hickory tree was a glistening pool of dark blood. I was tempted to touch its perfectly tensioned surface. Instead, as I stared, it shrank perceptively . . . As if the Earth had taken a delicate sip."
 
Dissent Is as American as Apple Pie Ralph Young
Category: American Thought Published: July 2004
"American citizens are torn by an ill-advised war and occupation led by leaders who, in seeking to stifle the sort of healthy debate democracy requires, do not seem to understand, indeed, who seem to shun, our nation's history."
 
How to Overcome Your Estate Planning Blues David Yeske
Category: Business & Finance Published: July 2004
"It takes time, costs money, raises difficult family issues, and revolves around something most of us do not want to think about--death."
 
Is the Constitution Color-Blind? Edward J. Erler
Category: Law & Justice Published: July 2004
". . . Class remedies, such as affirmative action and racial set-asides, assume that all members of the 'monolithic white majority' are guilty of racial class injuries and all members of 'discrete and insular' minorities are victims of such injuries."
 
Picnic Pests or Ecological Marvels?
Category: Ecology Published: July 2004
Ants--who have roamed the Earth since the days of the dinosaur--are expert farmers, fearsome warriors, voracious meat-eaters, and omnipresent socialites. Most of all, however, they are virtually indestructible.
 
Protecting People Inside Buildings Michael C. Janus , Robert Rudolph
Category: Science & Technology Published: July 2004
"It is the need to defend against the next generation of potential terrorist weapons--a witch's brew broadly designated as chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) agents--that is driving the current revolution in safety systems."
 
Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte" Douglas W. Druick , Gloria Groom
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2004
Viewers can "reassess the artist's unique status as a draughtsman, colorist, theorist, and 'painter of modern life,' as well as his talent in relation to his forebears and contemporaries.
 
Shoot First, Talk Later: How the U.S. has Abandoned Diplomacy Craig R. Eisendrath , Melvin A. Goodman
Category: Worldview Published: July 2004
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. had the opportunity to lead the world toward greater cooperation through diplomacy, int'l organization, and int'l law. Instead, the world is drifting toward military anarchy while democracy erodes at home.
 
The Bad News Is Really Good News Murray Weidenbaum
Category: Economics Published: July 2004
With South Korea flexing its considerable economic muscle on the world stage, the U.S. suddenly has a new competitor--and partner--in the ever-evolving global marketplace
 
The Influence of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on Hip Hop Richard Brent Turner
Category: Life in America Published: July 2004
". . . Success and prosperity for the majority of black Americans in the 21st century only will be achieved by a strong coalition of Christians and Muslims who are dedicated to the values of democracy and social justice."
 
Two Stars for Peace Martine Rothblatt
Category: Americans Abroad Published: July 2004
Every newly stitched American flag will declare that peace has been achieved by embracing Israelis and Palestinians as American citizens, and by welcoming their lands as unique--and equal--states."