From the Stacks: January 27, 2006

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Child's play takes a haunting turn in a few entries that surfaced this week. From The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Jan./Feb.), Mohammed Omer reports that Palestinian children have taken to playing 'Jews and Arabs' (a.k.a. 'Army versus Militants' or 'settlers and villagers') -- a role-playing game enacted with such realism that adults who overhear the game 'find it unbearable to listen,' Omer says. In another world, time, and genre, author Donna Tartt tells the story of a little girl recruited by a neighborhood boy to reenact his father's death in Vietnam as a daily ritual during a long, hot summer. The piece appears in the literary quarterly Tin House's Winter edition, which is dedicated to the art of the apology. -- Hannah Lobel

Unless you're a web design professional, you might not have heard of EContent magazine. But you don't have to be slaving away on Dreamweaver to find the Jan./Feb. cover story enlightening. Ron Miller writes about a too often ignored aspect of the net today -- accessibility for people with disabilities. While the article focuses on making websites friendly to screen-reader technology for the blind, people with other conditions, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, also are considered. It's an issue businesses are taking note of, Miller reports, as an opportunity to bring in more customers. A few companies are even making a name for themselves as web-accessibility consultants. -- Beth Petsan

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