USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in July 2004 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• Hollywood time is not geological time
• The new health savings accounts
  by Jeff A. Schnepper
• Splish splash it's more fun than taking a bath
• Two stars for peace: "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."
  by Martine Rothblatt
• Creating a more secure America: 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
  by David Cortright
• Barbecue tips for summer grillers
• How to overcome your estate planning blues: "it takes time, costs money, raises difficult family issues, and revolves around something most of us do not want to think about—death."
  by David Yeske
• Stow N Go is good to go
• What we don't know about terrorism
  by Llewellyn D. Howell
• Rising interest rates unnerve homebuyers
• A misplaced mania for milk: "increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors not only to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, but prostate cancer, allergies, and possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cau
  by Amy Joy Lanou
• You've got the power of water in your hand
• Fireworks have potential to blast hearing health
• Death's indelible impression: "… 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 perceptibly … as if the Earth had taken a delicate
• Sound the alarm on summer burglars
• A head start to nowhere? 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 stubbornly large … Perhaps … no government program ever can comp
  by Krista Kafer
• An elegant solution for a music & video library
• Shoot first, talk later: how the U.S. has abandoned diplomacy
  by Craig R. Eisendrath
• As the constitution color-blind? "… 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' minor
  by Edward J. Erler
• Leaving mosquitoes out of Wetland restoration
• Everything is ducky
  by Wes D. Gehring
• Museum memo
• Seurat and the making of "La Grande Jatte": 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."
  by Douglas W. Druick
• The influence of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on hip hop: "… 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 value
  by Richard Brent Turner
• U.S. agricultural exports heading for a record
• Backyard security againts skeeter attack
• Three tales of starfaring visitors. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Starship Troopers," "Starman"
• Picnic pests or ecological marvels? 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
• Carbon monoxide poisoning on boats
• Cooling off the fury of sun glare
• Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism
  by Steven G. Kellman
• The Saudis have America over a barrel
  by Lester R. Brown
• Adios fuel stops; I'm telecommuting
• Summer travel checklist: childproof the vitamins
• Protecting people inside buildings: "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 agents—that is driving the current revolut
  by Michael C. Janus
• Funky cocktails
• The Heart of the Matter: the Three Key Breakthroughs to Preventing Heart Attacks
  by Gerald F. Kreyche
• Giant media monopolies hurt everyone
  by Joe Saltzman
• Lightning strikes—even indoors
• Travel snacks can spoil vacation
• Media bias and the culture wars
  by Robert J. Bresler
• Sustaining silky smooth sexy summer skin
• Loud and Clear
  by Raymond L. Fischer
• Dissent is as American as apple pie: "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 nat
  by Ralph F. Young
• Local newspapers key to public opinion in war
• Government is great teen job source
• The bad news is really good news: 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
  by Murray Weidenbaum
• Burden bearing beach buggy
• Government and religion
  by Gerald F. Kreyche
• The corporate name game
  by Michael A. Leeds
• Activity sharing with your pet