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Articles in August 18, 1997 issue of Insight on the News

• Why hasn't America won the war against cancer?
  by Susan Crabtree
• The Universal Donor
  by Rex Roberts
• Final-frontier programs send Congress into orbit. The disasters aboard the Mir space station and the failure of Russia to deliver space-station components, for which they were paid nearly $500 million, may prompt a rethinking of the space-station concept
  by Gene Meyers
• Summertime, the livin' is easy, and even the artists are having some fun: while congress debates the merits of the National Endowment for the Arts, composers, writers and painters are playing in the woods - but rarely at tax payer expense, as art colonies
  by Leslie Alan Horvitz
• Right-minded academic axed at PC college
  by Sanford Pinsker
• Dissing British heritage to appease a viewpoint
  by Woody West
• News analysis: GOP 'allies' in wonderland
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Politicians float reform options, from school choice to tax credit: Americans remain divided on the issue of school vouchers, according to recent polls, although some experts see a coalition forming among free-marketeers, inner-city blacks and Catholics
  by Carol Innerst
• Mexico's antifraud plan could keep California elections fair
  by K.L. Billingsley
• Adding to personal profit
  by Tiffany Danitz
• For Wade Horn, fathers of our country are key to its survival
  by Stephen Goode
• Volcanic Catastrophe-in-waiting is redefining big bang theory: volcanologists are watching ancient calderas for signs of life - and danger. Not from lava flows or noxious gases, but an eruption that could disturb planetary weather and destroy the fragile
  by Phil Berardelli
• GOP miscues threaten fund-raising probe
  by Larry Klayman
• Milking dairy farmers for their ad dollars
  by John Berlau
• Sentience and sensibility: science is learning more about the brain every day and much of the new information has been very helpful. But big questions remain: what is the definition of human consciousness and why does it matter?
  by Stephen Goode
• Ginsburg's ethical lapse may affect other justices
  by John Berlau
• Although luster has dulled, gold remains store of value
  by Charles Cerami
• At food festival, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that zing
  by Jeffrey R. Sipe
• Q: should the Census Bureau use 'statistical sampling' in Census 2000?
  by Martha Farnsworth Riche
• Retying the marriage knot: marriage is a life sentence of hard labor, but then again, what's a ball and chain for?
  by Paula Gray Hunker