Ms. SPRING 2007 ISSUE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Lifesaving Politics Will U.S. Right Saipan Wrongs? Back On the Beat Harvard Isn't Enough Changing His Name Whose Streets? Short Takes Calendar	Battle Royal Healthy Sex Don't "Tease" These Eves Women in Blue Berets Sharla's City of Hope When Losing Means Winning Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story The Melting Point | Laura Orlando As the Earth heads toward catastrophe, women leaders like Sen. Barbara Boxer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Laurie David rise up to stop global warming. Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, N.Y. The Dirty Saga of Onondaga County | Linda Carty In Syracuse, N.Y., activists for environmental justice - party of a growing national movement - prove how racism leaves toxins at the doorsteps of the poor and people of color. Germ Warfare | Delthia Ricks Former political leader Betsy McCaughey crusades against the dirtiest secret in hospitals today - secondary infections. The Talibanization of Iraq | Bay Fang Under mounting repression, Iraqi women fight for their rights and their lives. Plus an excerpt from Baghdad Burning II What's Up With Kansas? | Martha Burk Scoring a major victory in the culture of war; pro-choice candidates in the Cyclone State won handily in 2006.
DEPARTMENTS
Money A Feminist Tea Party? | Martha Burk Law The Right to Complain | Debra S. Katz and Justine F. Andronici Health Home Sweet Nursing Home | Beth Baker Women's Studies Transform the World | Nikki Ayanna Stewart Essay Working-Class Hero | Sandy Boucher	Book Reviews Blanche Wiesen Cook on Laura Flanders’ Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians Purnima Mankekar on Zillah Eisenstein’s Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and Warn in Imperial Democracy Patricia Hill Collins on T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women Jessica Stites on Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes Rosie Molinary on Christina Garcia’s A Handbook to Luck DVD watch: Four fascinating films by women, now available for home viewing Backtalk One More Child Left Behind | Dolores Huerta No Comment