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Articles in May 17, 1999 issue of Insight on the News

• Mother distressed by State Department insensitivity
  by Maureen Dabbagh
• Flirting with KLA terrorists: support is building to arm the KLA to fight against the Serbs in Kosovo, though evidence suggests it is a drug-smuggling, leftist terrorist group with plans of conquest
  by J. Michael Waller
• Did you know?
  by John Elvin
• Proponents of equal pay unbalanced? Women's earnings continue to divide advocacy groups, even as two bills intended to counter discrimination wind their way through congress
  by Jennifer Kabbany
• Friends don't let war get in the way of fund-raising
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Buying votes with disaster relief: critics say the Clinton administration has rewritten the rules to more than double the opportunities to dole out federal funds under his presidential emergency powers
  by John Elvin
• Stressing values, christian colleges continue to grow
• Looking at two sides of violence: the massacre at Columbine High School creates pause for thought about the bombing strategy in Kosovo. How can we dissuade children from violence if we lightly make war?
  by Jamie Dettmer
• A few of labor's fruits may go to the GOP
  by John Elvin
• Courtroom dramatics: courts in two states will take up the issue of free speech vs. accountability, with filmmaker Oliver Stone in the hot seat in Louisiana for his controversial movie Natural Born Killers
  by Hugh Aynesworth
• Gulf war illness sufferer thankful for truthful reports
  by Shawn R. Parman
• China's military may get U.S. Base: the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co.'s bid to operate from the Long Beach Naval Station foundered amid controversy, but the City of Angels now is eager to make a similar deal
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Rewards posted in IRS arson case
  by John Elvin
• Trading places: day traders go it alone in the stock market, shunning brokers in a quest for quick profits — and alarming federal regulators and seasoned pros
  by Patrice Hill
• Clinton agrees to review ground-troop options
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Homosexual activists are after the boy scouts again
  by Mark Tooley
• Paper, pencil now passe: more and more, students are taking standardized test on computers — to mixed reviews
  by Andrea Billups
• The waning of nuclear power
  by Woody West
• Chinese fortunes: with the recent disclosure of nuclear theft from U.S. laboratories and the revival of the campaign-finance scandal, many Americans are wondering what's next
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• You want it, Al, you got it!
  by John Elvin
• Tavern owners still fuming
  by Samuel Goldreich
• A letter from the Editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Spacing out over Star Wars: although they took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Star Wars movies have touched a generation. Otherworldly adherents eagerly await the May prequel
  by Eli Lehrer
• No simple solution to chronic urban goose conflicts
  by John Elvin
• Green acres, indeed
  by Sean Paige
• All choked up
  by Lisa Anderson
• Ground war in Kosovo: a logistical nightmare
  by Patrick Theros
• Robots think 'n sync: a new computer program that allows robots to make decisions averts chaotic work stoppages — an advantage that could benefit everyone from surgeons to air-traffic controllers
  by Jennifer Kabbany
• Hamilton's ups and downs: scholars revive interest in a misunderstood Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, whose pragmatic ideas could help the United States through its current confusion
  by Michael Rust
• New schools of thought in mediocrity
  by Lisa Anderson
• Larson fights good fight against big labor: for 40 years, Reed Larson and the National Right to Work Committee have sought to abolish compulsory union membership and expose strong-arm political activism by labor bosses
  by Stephen Goode
• Mark my words I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• Down on the farm
  by Sean Paige
• College students are living in another world
  by Lisa Anderson
• Symposium
  by Bobby Rush
• Little Green Men: in his new satire, Christopher Buckley targets that old bugbear — the military-government-media complex — but manages to find fresh material from a source that is out of this world
  by Martin Rubin
• Strip search
  by Sean Paige