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Articles in Dec 17, 2001 issue of Insight on the News

• Environmentalists are no friends to human life
  by Michael J. Gold
• Is it safe to fly yet? A transportation official says there still are `alarming lapses of security' and `systemic vulnerabilities' associated with U.S. air travel. Should new airline-security laws calm our fears?
  by Sheila R. Cherry
• Practicing what they preach? unlike their counterparts in America, Christians in Muslim countries enjoy no religious freedoms. Many continue to be persecuted
  by Julia Duin
• `Old glory' in short supply on Capitol Hill
  by John Elvin
• Anthrax prevents appointed rounds from being made on Capitol Hill
  by Hans S. Nichols
• One nation under god: patriotism, complete with references to God, is back in style in American schools
  by Joyce Howard Price
• Ridge hints at changes in the national guard
  by John Elvin
• Posse Comitatus keeps military from overstepping its bounds
  by Martin Edwin Andersen
• When it comes to stupidity, the sky isn't the limit
  by Sean Paige
• Goin' to the gap
  by Kelly Ball
• Torching terrorism's financial fuel
  by John Elvin
• On the eve of deportation …
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Politicians slowly turning up heat on our civil liberties
• Hill fiddles as economy burns
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Hooray for advertising!
  by Donna De Marco
• Citadel cadet takes bite out of cookie monster
• Beware patriots: the FBI is watching you
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Canadian border open to terrorists: terrorists have exploited Canada's lax immigration laws to plan and execute attacks against the United States. Is the Canadian government taking corrective action?
  by Kenneth R. Timmerman
• Cosmic classic: a new symphony by Philip Glass celebrates the world's major religions
  by Ann Geracimos
• Philly Democrats teach wrong lesson about self-preservation
  by Tom Adkins
• Silenced is Goldin
  by Sean Paige
• Cable, DSL or satellite? high-speed internet connections can download information 50 times faster than a standard 56-kilobyte modem. But technology hasn't caught up with demand
  by Tim Lemke
• Did you know?
  by John Elvin
• Hiss defenders covering for the `old man'
  by Ralph De Toledano
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Media MIA in fight for civil liberties: fearful of the public labeling them as unpatriotic, the media have muzzled themselves and kowtowed to those demanding an expansion of law-enforcement powers
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Caste-aways
  by Willis Witter
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
• Verdict is in on Libya's culpability in 1986 terror attack
  by Hans S. Nichols
• A ford in Ford's uncertain future: Henry Ford's great-grandson is the new CEO at the world's second-largest carmaker. But his tenure may be short if he doesn't right the company's sinking fortunes
  by Christopher Whalen
• The curmudgeon's Harry Potter
  by Gary Arnold
• Big-Tent strategy won't work in Afghanistan
  by Wahab Raof Ghafary
• Romania hopes to sharpen its teeth on tourism
  by Stephen Goode
• Democrat AMT tax is a tax on jobs: the misnamed corporate alternative minimum tax has forced many manufacturers to think twice about making plans to expand or invest in new equipment
  by John Berlau
• Worship report: the state department raps U.S. `antiterror allies' for stifling religious freedom in their own countries but refrains from sanctions
  by Nicholas Kralev
• Historian takes a political u-turn: once a left-wing activist, Ronald Radosh now is a self-described moderate conservative who has torn down powerful Old Left myths with his research and writing
  by Stephen Goode
• Pursuit of happiness sometimes curtailed for folks in far east
  by Stephen Goode
• Stolen kids become pawns in terror war: thousands of American children now are being held hostage in nations that sponsor terrorism and they are being used as bargaining chips or trained to be jihadis
  by Timothy W. Maier
• A bedroom thriller: a summer romance turns tragic, raising questions of justice and vengeance. In the Bedroom is that rare film that explores moral issues while providing thrills
  by Rex Roberts
• Symposium
  by Michael M. Faenza