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Editorial Articles related to the American Translators Association
	Steven Hanley's draft of proposed bylaw amendments. The purpose of these amendments is to restate and reinforce the objectives of the ATA.
	Steven Hanley's article (rejected for publication in the ATA's Chronicle) on a serious structural problem in the ATA: the fact that it groups both translation agencies and translators, which has led to censorship of certain issues very important to the membership.
	Jon Johanning's article on the ATA's new certification program. This program appears to have a number of purposes, which may not all be consistent with each other, and some of which may not be necessary, desirable or practical.
October 2004
	Learning a second language 'boosts' brain-power, scientists believe.
	Health administrators thought they had everything sorted when seven Austrian GPs arrived in a Yorkshire town to meet a local shortfall earlier this year, until the puzzled newcomers bleeped for advice on what a gob oil was, especially when it "were mardy".
	When stumped, real English teachers 'goflibberate'
September 2004
	Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday. Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science. "It is the birth of a language."
	German broadcaster Deutsche Welle has added Klingon, spoken by the bumpy-headed aliens of the "Star Trek" television series, to the 30 languages used on its Web site, the network has said.
	The number of teenagers studying foreign languages at schools in England has fallen, the education watchdog Ofsted has found. Languages had been compulsory at GCSE until earlier this month, when the government removed the requirement.
August 2004
	Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they used a mistaken translation of a key piece of evidence last week in a terror case against two Muslims from Albany, New York.
July 2004
	EU language barrier 'costing lives': Doctors in some of the world's poorest countries are being denied cheap life-saving drugs for patients because Brussels lacks enough linguists to translate a new patent law into the 20 languages of the European Union.
	A blind francophone student in Canada has been barred from English immersion classes - because his guide dog only responds to commands in French.
	A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday by a whistle-blower who alleged security lapses in the FBI's translator program, ruling that her claims might expose government secrets that could damage national security.
June 2004
	The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south eastern Congo.
	New web site maps U.S. language tapestry.
	Being fluent in two languages may help to keep the brain sharper for longer, a study suggests.
May 2004
	EU tackles translation "crisis": "Keep it brief" is the order being sent out to EU bureaucrats in a bid to cut the amount of untranslated paperwork facing the newly expanded union.
April 2004
	Translating is EU's new boom industry: When 10 new countries join the European Union on 1 May, they bring with them an extra nine languages to add to the EU's existing 11.
	Getting lost in the translation: Relying on online translation tools can be a risky business, especially if you expect too much of it. For the time being, might translation be something best left to the humans?