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Articles in June 17, 2002 issue of Insight on the News

• A few words for rare occasions
  by Stephen Goode
• Putting the brakes on photo radar; authorities claim surveillance cameras are slowing traffic, but opponents say these high-tech speed traps are more about raising revenue than increasing safety
  by Sheila R. Cherry
• Tunnel vision for disaster: one of America's best hopes to handle a terrorist attack lies in West Virginia coal country, down a dirt road cradled between huge shoulders of mountainside
  by Tom Ramstack
• Conservatives question Dubya's direction
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Acceptance of homosexuality has led to scandal in church
  by Julio Bontempi
• Forgotten flier: U.S. Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher was shot down during the Persian Gulf War and classified as `killed in action' despite reports that he survived. Did he ultimately die because of Pentagon inaction, or could he still be alive in an I
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Euro failing first tests: a lack of fiscal discipline is jeopardizing the credibility of Europe's new currency
  by Martin Walker
• The damage done by PC journalism: author and media critic William McGowan details how `identity' politics has overtaken American newsrooms, turning journalists into cheerleaders instead of skeptics
  by Stephen Goode
• Stretch limo was Mao's paean to workers' paradise
  by Stephen Goode
• Is torture an option in war on terror? Interrogators increasingly frustrated with hardened al-Qaeda terrorists are considering the use of tactics once unthinkable for U.S. law-enforcement officers
  by Martin Edwin Andersen
• Korean expatriates face tough choice
  by Jong-Heon Lee
• `Scapegoat paradigm' drives Islamist hatred
  by Ralph R. Reiland
• Davis' shady dealings leave most Californians in the dark
  by Joe Maus
• Security and social security
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Cable calling: new players are emerging in the area of local and long-distance phone service
  by Tim Lemke
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• First Amendment protects politically incorrect ideas
  by A. Thomas
• Clinton undead haunting Pentagon: antimilitary holdovers and entrenched bureaucrats are using Pentagon-funded platforms to undermine national-defense policies of President George W. Bush
  by J. Michael Waller
• Europeans challenge `corporate welfare'
  by Carter Dougherty
• Symposium
  by Paul Crespo
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• What they knew; when they knew it: despite the hue and cry from partisan Democrats and the media, the Bush team did not act irresponsibly before the attacks on New York City and Washington
  by Kenneth R. Timmerman
• Watch your back line! The U.S. squad must tighten its defense if it wants to advance in the World Cup
  by John Haydon
• DOT, FAA and airlines share blame for 9/11 security lapses
  by Brian F. Sullivan
• Omission of Krall from documentary rubs some the wrong way
  by John Berlau
• The case for classical languages: Greek and Latin refine the mind and elevate the soul toward `things which man, at his best, wishes, and ought to wish, to achieve,' argues a defender of classical instruction
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• New website welcomes California whistle-blowers
  by John Elvin
• Well, what's the truth about Social Security?
  by Ralph De Toledano
• ICC would try to impose its will on American citizens
  by Daniel John Sobieski
• Accountability begins at the bottom in the U.S. Forest Service
  by Sean Paige
• Masseur makes for exotic fun
• Found: faith-based cures for drug abusers
  by John Elvin
• Mike Wallace changes his tune
  by John Berlau
• Greek mythology in cyberspace
  by Joseph Szadkowski
• Suspicious? Check out these schemes and scams
  by John Elvin
• Osprey set to fly again, but with clipped wings
  by Sean Paige
• Salton Sea is stylishly demented; the filmmakers combine inflammatory, sardonic and rhetorical motifs with hilarious impudence and finesse
  by Gary Arnold
• Talking points
  by John Elvin