The Christian Science Monitor Weekly - April 16, 2018

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INDEX

4 OVERHEARD

5 UPFRONT by MARK SAPPENFIELD

6 VIEWFINDER

8 ONE WEEK IN THE NEWS

11 D.C. DECODER

14 POINTS OF PROGRESS

18 FOCUS

21 SCIENCE & NATURE

24 COVER STORY

31 GLOBAL NEWSSTAND

32 THE MONITOR’S VIEW

34 THE MIX: ARTS & CULTURE

36 BOOKS FOR GLOBAL READERS

39 DIFFERENCE-MAKERS

41 THE HOME FORUM

42 CROSSWORD PUZZLE

43 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

PEOPLE MAKING

A DIFFERENCE Hurricane Maria

upended Puerto Rico – and its fishing industry.

Raimundo Espinoza Chirinos is helping in an

innovative way.

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BOOKS “Poems of Gratitude”

from Everyman’s Library cherishes

gratitude as an act of imagination.

FILM “Lean on Pete” is a tale of a boy

and his horse.

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