Ms. SPRING 2006 ISSUE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Our Bodies Under Siege Ward Connerly Strikes Again | Michigan initiative would end affirmative action for women and minorities. A Girl's Own Story | Geena Davis advocates for gender balance in children's movies. Restoration Babe | By creating a new cultural center, Ani DiFranco helps rebuild Buffalo. We Deserve Some Answers | A new national effort suggest six questions to ask public officials about birth control.. Braun on Alito Short Takes Calendar	Return of the Stolen Girls Beacons of Hope The Silent Walkers A Roma Walker Short Takes | News from around the world: Israel, Nepal, Italy, South Africa, Norway, Iran, Australia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Palestine and more!
FEATURES
Photo: Martin Von Krogh Cover Story Sex and Greed in a Paradise Lost | Rebecca Clarren, photography by Martin von Krogh Ms. investigates the controversial garment industry of the Northern Mariana Islands - a US territory - and learns how lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Rep. Tom DeLay helped it thrive. Listen to Rebecca Clarren and Ms. Executive Editor Katherine Spillar discuss this article on "Fresh Air" on NPR! Photo: Rebekah A. Meek Deborah Tannen on Mothers and Daughters | Tennessee Jane Watson The bestselling linguist reveals the feminism that underlies her study of communication patterns between mothers and daughters. Conversations With Mom | Ellen Snortland We eavesdropped on famous feminist moms Ellen Goodman, Faye Wattleton and Dolores Huerta as they chat with their grown daughters. Photo: Columbia Pictures   Feminism, Israeli Style | Alice Shalvi A noted Israeli feminist reveals how the country's women thought they didn't need a movement - until they realized how far they'd fallen behind. There's Something About Mary Magdalene | Jane Schaberg and Melanie Johnson-Debaufre Two religious scholars insist Mary was neither the biblical whore nor the woman portrayed in The Da Vinci Code.
DEPARTMENTS
Remembrance Betty Friedan: She Changed Our Lives Coretta Scott King: A Revolutionary Woman | Beverly Guy-Sheftall Money Getting Away With Murder | Martha Burk Health Going Natural | Susan Love, MD. and Sue Rochman Book Excerpt The Burning Time | Robin Morgan	Book Reviews Barbara Isenberg on Wendy Wasserstein's Elements of Style Erin Aubrey Kaplan on Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's Daughter Michele Kort on Judith A. Houck 's Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America Samantha Dunn on Terri Jentz 's Strange Piece of Paradise Ellen Chesler on Christina Page's How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex Great Reads for Spring 2006 Backtalk Women Needed to Clean Beltway Mess | Donna Brazile No Comment