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Criminals next door

Criminals next door

Cover Story | What's the nation's biggest domestic threat? Salvadoran-inspired gang violence is heating up-and it may be coming to a town near you

In this issue: "MS-13: Criminals next door," June 18, 2005

Features

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Anatomy of a victory

California |  Inside a razor-thin vote to preserve marriage in the Golden State

Vanishing species
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Vanishing species

Politics |  Judicial dealmaker and Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson may be one of the last safe red-state Democrats

Anurag slays appoggiatura
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Anurag slays appoggiatura

Education |  Homeschoolers and hard-working Asian descendants continue national spelling bee domination

Home improvement
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Home improvement

Missions |  Summer youth missions fan out to repair substandard housing and broken lives

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Double jeopardy

Religion |  The ACLU sues the government and soaks the taxpayers, mainline denominations target companies doing business with Israel, and other religion news

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Gender blender

Culture |  New laws, new confusion-and unsafe bathrooms?

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Death by drowning

Abortion |  New evidence suggests that some clinics are violating federal law by killing children who survive abortions

Healthy alternative
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Healthy alternative

Medicine |  A New Jersey clinic may be a model for a new health-care system, but is anyone in Washington paying attention?

Secret sin
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Secret sin

Religion |  Adultery in the church isn't just a man's problem

Snuffed out
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Snuffed out

Commerce |  Tobacco farmers reach the end of the quota road

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Open jars

Culture |  Rebuking the 'idol of safety,' Jars of Clay returns to classic hymns

Dispatches

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The Buzz

Judiciary Four years after President Bush first nominated her to the federal bench, former Texas judge Priscilla Owen was sworn in June 6. "This has been a…

Quick Takes
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Quick Takes

Gun nut Police in Ridgefield, N.J., discovered grandma and grandpa were packing heat. Returning to the home of 82-year-olds Elizabeth and Sherwin Raymond…

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Quotables

"Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country." Bill Anthony, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on how Gregory Despres…

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What about Brett?

Brett Kavanaugh is a name you should remember. He is first and foremost a tremendous public servant, having dedicated most of his professional life to serious…

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Fourteen years ago in WORLD magazine . . .

Iraqi Kurds declared, "We're not going back to Iraq," after Saddam's army chased them from their home. Missiologists called the Kurds a "hidden people group,"

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Movies |  The real story is not the magic pants, but the coming-of-age each girl faces

Mad Hot Ballroom
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Mad Hot Ballroom

Movies |  The fact that fifth-graders in New York City take ballroom dancing in school is this documentary's first surprise

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Into the West

Television |  History buffs will have some objections to Steven Spielberg's 12-hour epic of America's westward expansion

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Bestselling books

Notable Books |  The five bestselling hardback novels as measured by placement on four leading lists as of June 6

Notebook

Too hot to handle?
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Too hot to handle?

Money |  A slew of recent studies show that the U.S. housing market is not just hot but on fire

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Present is prologue

Sports |  The NBA is headed toward a labor impasse similar to the one that shut down the NHL

Voices

The wee hours
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The wee hours

Darkness brings with it a certain clarity and insanity

New holy lands
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New holy lands

Strong churches and strong marriages go hand in hand

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Mailbag

Letters, feedback, etc.

Wishful thinking
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Wishful thinking

Europeans are talking up a book that says America is about to collapse

End of elitism
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End of elitism

Does media democracy also bring mediocrity?

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