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IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Stephen Cass	Writing NASA's Marching Orders "New Moon Rising: The Making of America's New Space Vision and the Remaking of NASA," provides a lucid look at the messy and tangled process by which national science and engineering policy really gets made.
Reason March 2005 Cathy Young	Ayn Rand at 100 Loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is more relevant than ever.
Reason March 2005	Rand-O-Rama Ayn Rand's long shelf life in American culture.
Reason March 2005	The Born-Again Individualist Fox News Channel's Judge Andrew Napolitano on lying cops, out-of-control government, and his bestselling new book, Constitutional Chaos.
Reason March 2005 Glenn Garvin	Who Killed Captain Video? The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television, by David Weinstein is an absorbing account of the creator of America's first television network Allen Du Mont's rise and fall.
Reason March 2005 Nick Gillespie	John Locke, Original Hipster The Enlightenment roots of counterculture: A book review of Ken Goffman and Dan Joy's enjoyably antic if slightly cracked Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House.
Reason March 2005 Jesse Walker	The Fever Swamps of Kansas A leftist tries to make sense of grassroots conservatism: A book review of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, by Thomas Frank.
Reason March 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Labyrinths of Identity Does it change Jorge Luis Borges' fiction to know about Borges' life? A book review of Edwin Williamson's Borges: A Life.
Reason March 2005	Soundbite: Mild, Mild West An interview with Terry Anderson, author of The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier about a different picture of frontier history, with businessmen developing sensible property institutions to meet the West's varied needs.
HBS Working Knowledge February 28, 2005 Cynthia Churchwell	Funding R&D for Neglected Diseases Research on vaccines for diseases that primarily affect low-income countries remains minimal---the risks are too high for developers. The book Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases suggests a solution.
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