Spring 2002 Contents

News

• Vouchers and charter schools neither pass nor fail
• Electric ships unplugged for now
• Emergency relief for emergency personnel
• Defining a "viable" gas or oil resource
• How students ride the rails
• Rippling fallout of terrorism
• Replacing prescriptions for disaster
• Turkish hopes and fears
• Swelling costs of obesity
• Research compensates workers

• Added Values
  The role of moral dialogues in building a global community

• Cry, the Derided Country
  A friendliness index for a lonely America

Precision-Guided Sanctions
How to take the profit out of proliferation
By Richard H. Speier and Brian G. Chow

Cover Story

Putting Theory to the Test
Systems of "educational accountability" should be held accountable
By Brian M. Stecher and Laura S. Hamilton

Faster, Better, Cheaper
U.S. Army manages a logistics revolution
By Rick Eden

Commentary
Secure the Vote
Now we must literally protect democracy
By James T. Quinlivan