Articles from SciTech Book News (June 1, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'I see a human being': the Mauritian legal system ties itself up in knots over race and religion at each general election. It's pointless and pernicious, says Lindsey Collen.	Collen, Lindsey		753
'The Cuban stays!' Vanessa Davies reports on a radical new system of healthcare.	Davies, Vanessa		1450
A short history of Venezuela.		Country overview	1818
After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Book review	320
Amazonian psychics, Muppets and the Antichrist.		Brief article	312
Apartheid versus sumud.	Halper, Jeff		980
Big bad world.		Cartoon	30
Black Gold.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Book review	243
Blog-on Africa!		Brief article	98
Civil soldiers: they call it 'co-responsibility'. Elizabeth Nunez explores a peculiarly Venezuelan attempt to integrate civilians with the armed forces.	Nunez, Elizabeth		1112
Culture Is Our Weapon: Afroreggae in the Favelas of Rio.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Book review	482
Dam lies: Indian Government refuses to stop drowning homes and villages.	Bunsha, Dionne		584
Devil in the detail.	Hollyman, Jim	Letter to the editor	234
Double vision: Michael Albert quizzes anonymous officials about their visionary plans for a revolution by example, not force.	Albert, Michael		1493
Haunted mornings, sleepless nights: Jean Baptiste Kayigamba describes how he survived genocide in Rwanda.	Kayigamba, Jean Baptiste		1913
If we don't try, we've already made a mistake: Camila Pineiro Harnecker explores 'development from within'.	Harnecker, Camila Pineiro		522
Inside the Venezuelan revolution: David Ransom inhales the heated atmosphere of a changing political climate.	Ransom, David		2080
Interview with the Rescue Foundation: liberating sex slaves in India.		Interview	808
Live in Ramallah.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Sound recording review	304
Local priorities.	Sansom, Mike	Letter to the editor	293
Maldives.	Warren, Mary	Country overview	1176
Meles Zenawi.		Biography	1017
Moral shift.	Chase, Frank	Letter to the editor	216
Mutual respect.	Morey, Stephen	Letter to the editor	399
NGO critique.	Kreimfather, Minn	Letter to the editor	317
Partial truths.	Andrews, Francis	Letter to the editor	399
Pink 'iPods' for democracy: NGO delivers US messages to rural Afghanistan.	Nawa, Fariba		462
Sexual cleansing: terrorized Iraqi gays ignored by west.	Ireland, Doug		470
Shake off the dollar.	Harms, Mark	Letter to the editor	258
Sleepwalking Land.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Book review	294
Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world.		Brief article	205
Speechmarks.	Schwarzkopf, H. Norman	Brief article	47
Sprinting Gazelle.	Gill, Erin; Lewis, Malcolm; Gray, Louise; Whittaker, Peter	Sound recording review	297
Starbucks at Guantanamo.		Brief article	141
Stay out.	Rathborne, Bill	Letter to the editor	175
Tajikistan's last synagogue to go.		Brief article	121
The Bolivarian school: Jose Orozco tests the evidence of change at the chalkface.	Orozco, Jose		1434
The hive: David Ransom finds uncommon sense in El Valle--the valley--a Caracas barrio.	Ransom, David	City overview	1495
The language of gender.	Mitchell; Richardson	Brief article	47
THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK: Every Venezuelan has been given a copy of the BOLIVARIAN CONSTITUTION--a little blue book. It was written by a specially elected Constituent Assembly and endorsed by referendum in 1999, followed by laws to implement its provisions. Many Venezuelans can quote from it and a few frequently do. Here is a little of what they might be quoting.			591
The spoils of oil: Ivan Briscoe tastes the poisoned prosperity of petroleum.	Briscoe, Ivan		1322
The Venezuelan Revolution.	Ransom, David	Editorial	259
Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution the facts.			1324