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The World and I
World and I is an encyclopedic journal that includes world news; developments in science, the arts and philosophy; book reviews; and photo essays. Since it was founded in 1986, it is printed monthly. The journal is published by Washington Times Corp.Subjects for World and I include science; literature and literary reviews; food and cooking; art; travel and tourism; politics; philosophy; music and musical instruments; drama and theatre. The editor is Steve Osmond.
Articles from Vol. 15, No. 2, February
A Celebration of Life
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The South American Pantanal is home to a spectacular array of species whose life cycles follow the seasonal oscillations of flooding and drought. A restless snail kite deep in the Amazon feels the cool fall temperatures of May and sets off into...
America's Longest 'War'
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A compassionate but restrictive drug policy that partners prevention, rehabilitation, and law enforcement will continue to show the greatest chance for success. Bashing our drug policy is a popular activity. The advocates of legalization and decriminalization...
A School Prayer: Lord Help Us Win the Game!
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Prior to every home football game at Santa Fe High School a student elected by his or her classmates is allowed to deliver a "brief invocation and/or message" during the pregame ceremonies. Likewise, the high school also allows the graduating senior...
A Tennessee Original : Nashville's Tuck-Hinton Architects
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In a remarkable variety of projects, a cutting-edge firm led by two far- sighted architects captures in bold new terms the spirit of place that is Tennessee. Tuck-Hinton Architects is a solid Nashville firm that is doing much to help define the...
Budding Budapest
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Who would have suspected that a country with such a violent history as Hungary could have produced such a vital and lively arts scene? A trip to Budapest brought back the proof. Hungary has had perhaps the most chaotic and violent past of any country...
Can Forbes or McCain Stop Bush?
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In an era when an otherwise popular president can be impeached and a gruff professional wrestler can be elected governor of Minnesota, few things in politics seem certain anymore. How long, then, can Texas Gov. George W. Bush remain the front-runner...
Can Forbes or McCain Stop Bush? : Differences Only in Details
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On the issues, there is little substantive difference between the top three contenders for the Republican presidential nomination: Texas Gov. George W. Bush, publisher Steve Forbes, and Sen. John McCain. "Of the differences between these three,...
Coping with Terror : Education and Trauma Recovery in Israel
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Almost the first thing a child learns in Kiryat Shmoneh, an often- shelled town in Israel's upper Galilee, is the location of shelters serving his neighborhood and school. The community is the target of choice when Lebanese-based Arab terrorists want...
Encourage Growth
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Opponents of suburban growth, or "sprawl," urge governments to better control, manage, or plan growth; build rail transit systems; and protect farmland. They claim that sprawl causes a long list of environmental and social problems, including long...
Fate and the Imperial Dream
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Atthe "Baltic House" International Theater Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, major directors deal with the subject of fate in remarkable ways that the West has yet to discover. In the autumn of 1999, as the clock ticked steadily toward the new...
Fighting the Real War on Drugs
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It is the responsibility of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to fashion an appropriate reponse to this wide array of complex social issues. Declaring a war on drugs, as we did in the early 1980s, was problematic from the beginning. Drug...
From This Month's Menu
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February, which is Black History Month, is the peak time for black American tourists to visit the island of Gorae off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. There is a bitter taste to the trip to connect with a part of their roots, since for three hundred...
How Sweet It Is!
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Seeking to satisfy our fondness for sweet foods while minimizing undesirable consequences, we have proceeded from sugar to an expanding range of sugar substitutes. "Sweet tooth:colloquial term for "a fondness or craving for sweets."" ----Webster's...
Is It a War on Drugs?
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Nearly 30 years ago, the Nixon administration was the first administration to declare "war" on drugs. Today, tens of billions of dollars and millions of arrests and incarcerations later, drug abuse remains a major problem in America. Are we winning...
Jennifer Markes : Tropic Celebration
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As sunny and vibrant as her colorful paintings, Los Angeles artist Jennifer Markes remarks, "I don't just sit down to paint. God says to me, 'Here, have a painting,' and I say, 'thank you.' " A native of Los Angeles, where she was born in 1964,...
May the Best Face Win : An Unconventional Look at the Presidential Candidates' Features Reveals Much
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Electing an American president at the turn of the millennium is clearly no easy task. To assist us, the candidates for the Y2K election have formally declared their intentions with record-breaking alacrity. An additional precedent may have been set...
Messengers of Culture : The Glory of African Beadwork
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Outward appearance is the surest way to differentiate one person from another, and the desire for objects that can decorate or distinguish the individual appears to be universal. In fact, the practice of personal adornment is at least twenty-five thousand...
Mountain Rebels: Marronage in Spanish America
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Long neglected in narratives of the colonial era, Maroons have begun to appear in mainstream history. Jamaican schoolchildren now learn not only of the generations of slavery their ancestors endured under the British but of the bold rejection of the...
Mountain Rebels : Nanny of the Maroons
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The spirit of liberty and justice found its expression in Maroon history through the legendary figure of Nanny. Oral tradition and fragmentary records sketch a remarkable woman for whom, in the matter of her enslaved people, compromise with the British...
Mountain Rebels : The Flight from Slavery of Jamaica's Maroons
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Blue Mountain lay silhouetted against a moonlit Jamaican sky. The languid murmur of insects drifted through the valley, rising and falling in a listless refrain. Minutes before a fierce downpour had roared down upon my tin-roofed cabin, sheltered some...
Musical Manchester
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England's Manchester has left behind the "dark satanic mills" of old, but continues its unexpectedly distinguished history as a center of music, with "the people's orchestra" and much more. Book Info: I heard a siren from the dock, Saw a train...
Musical Manchester : Manchester Ensembles on CD
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The following is a list of selected recordings by orchestras based in Manchester. Halla Orchestra: Britten: Billy Budd. Kent Nagano, conductor; Thomas Hampson (Billy Budd), Eric Halfvarson (John Claggart), et al.; Halla City Chorus, Manchester...
Nella Larsen : Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
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During the 1960s, '70s, and well into the '80s, when literary historians were reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Nella Larsen was described as a mystery woman. The dates cited for both her birth and death were contradictory, in each...
Pagodas and Paradox : Guarded Mystery of Myanmar
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"Do you notice the walls to our right?" asked "Stan" as our minibus bounced around a tight turn and headed up a small hill. "The single fence, this is the zoo. But the double fence, this is a military compound." Stan's mouth smiled, but his eyes were...
Plan Sensibly
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Suburban sprawl has rightly become an issue of national concern in the last few years. Suburbanites and city dwellers, environmentalists and business leaders, are fed up with endless traffic, dirty air, disappearing open space, and fractured communities....
Rockwell Revisited
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Atouring exhibition explores Norman Rockwell's role as national icon- maker and storyteller while it fires discussion as to whether he was a fine artist or "merely" an able illustrator. Illustration has always occupied a special place in the context...
Setback for World Trade
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If Bill Clinton had wanted the World Trade Organization conference held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999, to go off without a hitch, it should have been held in Texas. Instead, the last large trade conference of the century took place...
Sweets for the Sweet
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What nicer way to honor a woman than to name a dessert after her. Many cooks have done just that. When the Savoy Hotel opened in London in 1889, ladies did not eat in hotel restaurants or other public places. Chefs catered to men, making hefty roasts...
The Battle in Seattle
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Collapse in seattle UNITED STATES--Many trade experts warned that a new round of global trade talks was premature. The world, they said, needed more time to absorb the trade-opening measures that were adopted five years ago. A week of protests at...
The Case for Drug Legalization : We Need to Make Drugs a Controlled Substance Just like Alcohol
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I am a "cost-benefit" analysis person. What's the cost and what's the benefit? A couple of things scream out as failing cost-benefit criteria. One is education. The other is the war on drugs. We are presently spending $50 billion a year to combat drugs....
The Isle of No Return
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A visit to the senegalese island of gorae quickly reveals the central role it played in slave trading. We ease into port from Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa. As the ferry draws closer to Gorae Island, it feels like we've returned to the seventeenth...
The Land of the Great Heartbeat
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Driven by its annual pulse of massive flooding followed by gradually receding waters, the vast Pantanal wetlands remains one of the world's ecological treasures even as development begins to encroach on it. In the center of the South American continent,...
The Unspeakable Pleasure : A Study of Human Cruelty
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Littleton, Colorado, April 20, 1999, around 11:20 a.m. "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enter the library of Columbine High School. Armed with a double-barreled shotgun, a pump shotgun and two semi-automatic rifles, they open fire on their classmates....
The War on Drugs
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Let there be no mistake regarding where I stand on the war on drugs. I recognize that we may not be winning it, but my position is "zero tolerance" with respect to all drugs that are taken only to produce a "high" rather than for some legitimate medical...
Things Change : Alabama and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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Visitors from Europe, Asia, and various parts of the United States gather around a tall man with a fringe of white hair in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park. They have circled the Freedom Walk, passing sculptures that commemorate the civil rights marches...
Tom Wolfe's Epictetus
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One of the pivotal figures in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, while serving a prison sentence, discovers the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. The fictional character, Conrad Hensley, is perhaps the only innocent in this tale of greed...
TV's New Look
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Savvy producers are now targeting affluent boomers and women shoppers with a new crop of dramatic shows, ranging from crass to class. So you thought you had it all figured out as to what kind of prime-time fare television producers were offering...
Veteran of the Cold War
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As a boy growing up in post--World War I Australia and then in the south of France and London, Brian Crozier displayed great artistic promise, teaching himself to play the piano and becoming versatile in classical music composition. But his artistic...
Voices to the World
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The Saharan guerrillas drove their Land Rovers under some scrub trees after a hard day's ride across the stony desert, and under the brilliant stars that night they tuned in a transistor radio to the Yankee Doodle Dandy theme music of the Voice of...
Voices to the World : Saving Lives over the Air
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The Voice of America is increasingly diversifying its programming--and likely helping save more lives in developing countries--by adding features on health issues like polio, tuberculosis, and AIDS. "We developed a series of broadcasts on health...
We Have No 'War on Drugs'
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Although the struggle to reduce drug use is not a war, illegal drugs contribute to the deaths of more than 50,000 Americans each year. The ill-chosen term war on drugs illustrates the problem that can develop from using misplaced military metaphors....
What's Wrong with Managed Care and How to Fix It
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Mary Smith (name is changed to protect the privacy of the patient) was frustrated that she could not get pregnant to start the family she had dreamed of for so long. She consulted her gynecologist, who had been her doctor all her adult life. He was...
Who Sets the Standard for Democracy?
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To the Editor: Michael Riley's article "Latin America's Tide of Semidemocracy" [December 1999, p. 60] gives a helpful overview of the state of democracy in Central and South America, pointing out that its roots may not go very deep. My concern is...
