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That such stories are far too easy to find is undeniable. Still, there are other children in danger's path--harmed and neglected in a thousand ways that don't offer melodramatic story lines or a chance for TV viewers to play detective--whose photos will never be passed around at press conferences and whose names will never be flashed above a freeway. While we may not know whether the number of kidnapped kids is rising, there is another figure--the number of children on public assistance whose checks go directly to them, not through a parent, because often...
...picture is worth a thousand words, do those words say more about the image or the viewer? Take, for instance, the detail-oriented Californian who found one letter on our cover to be literally off-color: "As I looked at your tricolored 'USA' in the cover headline, I wondered when the U.S. changed its colors to red, white and periwinkle blue." A plainspoken Maryland man thought the Boss could use a change: "This bum needs to get a haircut, a shave and a decent suit!" But it was the man behind the camera who was the focus of attention...
...concerted effort to correct this basic flaw in the market could have a bigger payoff for the environment than would a thousand new national parks. But many environmental groups continue to oppose market-based environmental reforms and instead remain wedded to the "mandate, regulate and litigate" model of the past...
...sympathy and balance. He also unearths a memorable cast of characters who have helped to make Nice such a troubled paradise. Kanigel doesn't see a quiet future for the city. Each day at this time of year 170 flights pile into one of Europe's busiest airports. A thousand hotels and 3,000 restaurants cater for the arrivals, who will spend at least $5 billion this year. Most it is true, leave satisfied. But tourism is a delicate beast and, as Kanigel gently points out, Nice has all but exhausted its resources - environment, physical capacity, attractions. Growth...
...time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless - terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs - a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home a child or two. At least it's something. At least it makes a dent. Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle the matter of whether such...