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Articles in March 29, 2004 issue of Insight on the News

• Sandoval Blows Horn for Freedom; Listening to jazz music once offered Arturo Sandoval a kind of escape from Cuba's oppression. But the trumpet master found true liberation after defecting to America
• The Plane Truth About Airline Woes; It's not fallout from the 9/11 attacks that is causing the airline industry to crash, aviation experts contend, but government overregulation and loose bankruptcy laws
• Saving Money And Endangering Lives; A sweeping audit of WITSEC could show that budget constraints and misappropriated funds are putting the lives of both federal witnesses and inspectors in danger
• Passenger-Screening System Doesn't Ensure Safe Flights
• Media Faking the Unemployment Rate
• Q: Is phonics-rich instruction, as pushed by the White House, needed in U.S. classrooms? YES: The fad of whole-language teaching has led to widespread illiteracy among U.S. students
• Library Makes Sex Open Book for Teens
• The Campaign: a Marathon, Not a Sprint
• Breakthrough With Muammar Qaddafi; Libya's leader pledges to give up weapons of mass destruction, abandon terror and renew ties with America. Can this man be trusted?
• Bringing Iraq Back From the Brink; The largest reconstruction project the United States has undertaken since the Marshall Plan is helping a nation to recover from years of Saddam's abuse and neglect
• States Betting on Gambling to Cut Deficits
• World Over, People Exorcise Their Rites
• Putin Resorting to Cold War Threats; Russian President Vladimir Putin increases the KGB influence in his government and simulates a nuclear attack on the United States in his re-election campaign
• What's the Cost for a Hot Housing Market?
• Q: Is phonics-rich instruction, as pushed by the White House, needed in U.S. classrooms? NO: The whole-language method really works and has led to a golden age of children's literature
• The Truth About Superman
• Is Silver Scandal On the Horizon? Thousands of investors warn that the silver market is being manipulated, keeping the price too low, and that regulators are allowing select traders to commit fraud
• Dear Readers,
• Left-Wingers' Attacks on Bush Are Slap in Face to Servicemen
• New Search for 'Lost Colony' Is Under Way
• Why America Needs More Sufi Muslim Allies