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Articles in Dec 10, 2001 issue of Insight on the News

• Open eyes to immigration policy before it's too late
  by Donald Haverstrom
• A renewal of anxieties
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Bigger better? Terrorism has ignited debate about the future of tall buildings in America
  by Julia Duin
• In the shadow of August 1914
  by Rand H. Fishbein
• Saudis head home
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Cold war in the hot zone: U.S. experts are reviewing the germ-warfare capabilities of other countries, including Russia, which once had the biggest biological-weapons program in the world
  by Nicholas Kralev
• Religious repression still rules in Vietnam
  by John Elvin
• Free congress foundation will be more wary in the future
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Worse than we thought: a reporter spent a year at a midwestern high school to find out firsthand what's happening in America's classrooms. She found `a malaise, a low-lying depression all the time.'
  by Julia Duin
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
• Terrorists could use railcars as vehicles of destruction
  by Arlene Miller
• Daniels is thriving in the lion's den
  by Sean Paige
• U.S. borders prove porous: legal and illegal foreign residents represent a 57 percent increase in the immigrant population
  by August Gribbin
• Q: should the United Nations support more family-planning services for poor countries?
  by Werner Fornos
• New study finds American high schools fail to graduate one in four students
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Tennessee tax fight a warning to others: Tennesseans of all political stripes are taking sides on a proposal to implement a state income tax. Spenders have run up a huge $1 billion state budget shortfall
  by Tony Hays
• Readin', writin' and radicalism
• Coverage tactics draw media into line of fire
  by Warren D. Johnson
• Automated systems aren't the only things escaping grasp of INS
  by Sean Paige
• Sudden surge in interest in near East: Americans are enrolling in courses on Islam, Arabic and international relations
  by Julia Duin
• Reza Pahlavi pulls for democracy: the heir to the Iranian throne says that providing political freedom and real economic oppurtunity to repressed peoples is the best way to defeat terrorism
  by Ted Hayes
• Ecoterrorism: An overlooked threat to the United States
  by Paul (American choreographer) Taylor
• What role did sex have to play in terrorists' hostility?
  by Mary Greene
• Rumsfeld: plaques of biblical job: Donald Rumsfeld inherited a demoralized military where warrior qualities had lost out to political correctness. Today, he is winning on two fronts: Afghanistan and the Pentagon
  by J. Michael Waller
• Afghan exiles also pray for fall of Taliban: refugees struggling to survive in Pakistan long to return to a country free of extremism and with a chance to work and study
  by Willis Witter
• Wise wisecracks from a great wit, Mark Twain
  by Stephen Goode
• Present, but unaccounted for: the whereabouts of thousands of foreign students in the U.S. are unknown because of an outdated tracking system and because schools fought requests for data
  by Sheila R. Cherry
• Too bad we can't define some of these stories as hoaxes
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Red cross feathers its own nest first: after receiving $546 million to aid victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Red Cross admits giving only the equivalent of two weeks' financial assistance to families
  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
• Web wise: Smart cybersurfers choose the right search engine for specific research projects
  by Christian Toto
• Media engaged in game of chicken little
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Winning seems to require having luck on your side
  by Stephen Goode
• Preparing for patient zero: the government must prepare for the possibility of a terrorist-unleashed smallpox epidemic that could kill millions and overwhelm the U.S. health-care system
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Skaggs says it's no time for hoaxes
  by John Elvin
• Terrorists from the '60s are celebrated today
  by Wood West