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The article focuses on a new policy implemented at Fort Benning, Georgia, which requires the removal of vehicle stickers required for motorists who enter the post to protect military personnel from being targeted because they have a sticker.

Reports on the views of U.S. District Court judge Clarence Cooper on evolution-disclaimer stickers which were added to biology textbooks by the Department of Education in Cobb County, Georgia in 2005.

Reports that U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ordered Cobb County school district in Georgia to remove stickers which states that a book contains materials on evolution. Description of the sticker as a way of endorsing religion; Role of district student parent Marjorie Rogers as the leader of the drive for the textbook disclaimers; Violation of the separation of the church and the state.

Presents news briefs on issues related to humanism as of March 2005. Concern of environmentalist on a plan regarding the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil; Impact of the tsunami on fisheries in Asia; Information on a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper on evolution disclaimer stickers posted at Cobb County School District in Atlanta, Georgia.

The article discusses the ongoing controversy in Cobb County, Georgia over the evolution disclaimer stickers that a federal judge has declared unconstitutional in violation of both the Georgia and the U.S. Constitutions. The fundamentalists have managed to convince the school board that anyone who opposes science-book stickers that call evolution "a theory not a fact" is a heathen, an infidel, a godless wretch. In science, a theory is a statement that pulls together information from a lot of different sources, like the cell theory in which all living things are made of cells or cell products and cells come from pre-existing cells.

The article reports that a federal judge in Georgia has declared that a district's practice of labeling "evolution a theory, not a fact" on stickers placed on science textbooks amounts to an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ordered officials in the Cobb County school system to remove the stickers immediately. That language was approved by the 102,000-student district's school board in 2002, after parents complained that a new set of science textbooks favored the theory of evolution too heavily over religiously based views.

This article presents experiences of editors of the journal "Convenience Store News." Stopping at a Chevron Food Mart in Adairsville, Georgia, a Convenience Store News editor was delighted to find bright orange stickers that read "New! Try Me!" on many of the new product offerings, particularly in the beverage cooler. The editor selected the new Dasani Raspberry flavored water for $1.09, though she had come in for regular bottled water, priced at 99 cents. Up near the counter, a cigar stand featured several of the orange stickers on flavored cigar products, many promoted with 2-for-1 specials.