There was a time when you could send your child to school with the confidence that he or she would get a good education and be safe in the process. But, in just the last decade or so, our schools have become veritable battlegrounds, beseiged by drugs, alcohol, and even senseless killings. What has gone wrong? Read this issue of Answers and find out.

During this past year, we have witnessed catastrophic events on a global scale, unlike anything ever seen before. But while many are fixated on the more graphic illustrations depicted by the news media, more startling phenomena have silently gone unnoticed. This includes the rise of deadly new diseases that threaten to eradicate a large portion of the world's population over the next two decades. More than 30 new diseases have mysteriously arisen, causing great concern in the scientific community. Learn more in this issue of Answers.