Cover Story | COVER STORY: How quick thinking and swift political action saved the life of a disabled woman-and rekindled a pro-life movement beaten down by defeat after defeat
National |
Under God" is under scrutiny at the U.S. Supreme Court as the
justices review a challenge to the Pledge of Allegiance. Meanwhile,
the other two branches of…
National |
If homeschoolers can't be socialized, they'll just have to settle
for being civilized," quips veteran education analyst Robert
Morrison in response to the…
National |
The education market is expanding in Colorado, where a voucher law
signed last spring by Gov. Bill Owens would allow 20,000 students
in 11 underperforming…
National |
In the world of international track and field, there may not be new
dopers, just new kinds of dope. In the days after what some are
calling the biggest…
National |
Certain superstitious Chicago Cubs fans may look to Oct. 6, 1945,
as the day everything went wrong. The Cubs had just taken two of
three games against Detroit…
National |
Food for thought for Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs fans: The
Florida Marlins, just beginning their second decade as a sports
franchise, were playing for…
National |
THIS FALL'S BIGGEST HIGH-TECH battle pits two unlikely opponents:
Apple and Napster. The Apple iTunes Music Store now faces
competition from a relaunched,
National |
THOSE PRICEY HDTV SETS ARE beautiful to look at-in the showroom.
Once a new owner gets his new model home, he quickly discovers
there isn't much to watch…
National |
FOR MOST PEOPLE, Inter- net viruses and service attacks are an
obnoxious nuisance. For computer security companies, they're big
business. Symantec, the maker…
National |
America Online is bringing back the Netscape name next year on a
cut-rate Internet service. For about $10 a month, subscribers
receive normal online access,
National |
POLITICS: Conceding first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses to
frontrunner Howard Dean, two upper-tier Democrats-Clark and
Lieberman-hope to break with history and…
International |
ANGLICAN CRISIS: Traditionalist Episcopalians, fresh from an angry
exchange with liberal leaders, are watching what happens next week,
when an openly gay…
International |
Excerpts from the primates' statement, London, Oct. 17, 2003: "At
this time we feel the profound pain and uncertainty shared by
others about our Christian…
International |
NEAR KHOST, AFGHANISTAN-When Osama bin Laden decided to publicly
declare war on the Western world for the fifth time in the Clinton
presidency, he called a…
International |
A brutal political crackdown in Azerbaijan left U.S. officials
embarrassed and confused over how to deal with the Central Asian
country, a strategic ally in…
International |
Bolivians will nurse their longstanding grudge against neighbor
Chile, even if it costs them a few much-needed dollars and the
United States an ally. South…
International |
Persecution monitors may have been a little too prescient in
choosing Indonesia as this year's International Day of Prayer
poster child. The annual focus on…
Pulling a fast one? Police nabbed Mike Ferguson for racing through
a British highway at 104 mph on Jan. 16, but he had a pretty good
excuse. He was driving an…
I can't ask you why God saw me fit to live at this time. Kirk Jones
of Canton, Mich., after an unsuccessful suicide attempt last week
in which he became the…
Culture |
Every fall and spring publishers come out with new picture books.
WORLD will be taking a look at some of the new ones and giving you
our opinion about whether…
Our choices are not limited to either dominating the culture or
insisting on a purely secular public square. A worldview pluralism
that allows many religious…
