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True Heroes by Colman McCarthy Of the 27 faculty members teaching 549 minority students at Garrison Elementary School in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington D.C., two are black males. Darryll Vann has 26 boys and girls in his kindergarten class, Hassan Abdullah 21 in his first grade class.
Doom Thy Neighbor: After Hiroshima and Nagasaki…Lahore and Bombay? by Lawrence Lifschultz Islamabad—In the coded signal sent to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to announce India’s recent nuclear detonations Indian scientists invoked the name of Shakti, a Hindu goddess. “Shakti is successful!,” they trumpted. In Indian mythology, Shakti and her myriad incarnations are the destroyers of evil. However, those in India who were repelled by what they perceived as the evil of atomic tests thought of another Hindu god which a troubled American scientist had invoked just over a half century ago.
Benazir Bhutto: Comeback Kid? by Emily MacFarquhar Benazir Bhutto, world-class political pugilist, is refusing to go down for the count. For over a year now, this twice-elected, twice-deposed ex-prime minister of Pakistan, has seemed to be on the ropes.
	Bridging Troubled Waters in Ambos Nogales by Miriam Davidson In the hillside shantytowns of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, people get drinking water from trucks and store it in barrels salvaged from the dump or nearby factories. They have no choice. The city’s crumbling, 50-year-old water distribution system doesn’t extend to where they live. Even most of the homes in town that are connected to the system only get water a few hours each day. Leaking pipes, illegal connections, and steep hills reduce water flow and pressure to such an extent that what’s left has to be rationed.
	MAIDS by Katti Gray Shahida Ahmed fled Bangladesh for the United States four years ago, horrified that whoever planted a bomb to blow apart her husband’s body would come next for her.
	Avenging Angels: Homegirl Survival Stories text and photos by Donna DeCesare “The weak one is the one society thinks is good, but that’s the one that is going to end up dead.”      –Angel, Latina gang member
Risking the Pope’s Wrath by Cheryl Reed TORONTO - Three days after Pope John Paul threatened to punish those who dissent from official church teachings, an order of North American nuns openly urged each other to support women’s ordination even if it means being kicked out of the Roman Catholic Church.
	Lynching in Huejutla by Sam Quinones Looking back, people say they didn’t much notice the two men - one fat and one thin - lurching along the unpaved roads in their gray 1980 Chevrolet pickup early on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 24.
	Messages from Underground by Glenn Frankel We had just finished our first cup of tea, when Hilda Bernstein rose and left the kitchen. Several minutes passed. Hilda was eighty-one years old and had acquired an artificial hip not long ago, and she negotiated the staircase of the small townhouse outside Oxford, England, with wisdom rather than haste. She came back with a white manila envelope whose contents she dumped onto the table. Out came strips of white fabric, cut in the shape of shirt collars, each one covered in minute handwriting. They contained letters – messages from underground, really – written in 1963 by her husband Rusty, smuggled out to Hilda in dirty laundry from an isolation cell deep in the bowels of Pretoria Local prison in South Affica. Rusty had spent eighty-eight days in solitary confinement there before being charged with sabotage and put on trial for his life alongside Nelson Mandela and nine other anti-apartheid activists.
	Ida Tarbell: A Reporter’s Life by Steve Weinberg Obviously intelligent and a fast learner, the 23-year-old Ida M. Tarbell quickly expanded her job description after beginning her journalism career on The Chautauquan magazine during 1880. As a result, she received a broad education on all manner of topics.
Selling Seniors on HMO’s by Fred Schulte WHEATON, Md. On a muggy August morning at Hot Shoppes cafeteria, salesman Matt Buckley tells a group of retirees over coffee that Medicare is changing and they must adapt.