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IDB America August 2004 Roger Hamilton	Education for a New Amazon An innovative High School course prepares Peruvian students for big changes coming their way as they witness firsthand the transformation of their frontier jungle town into one of the crossroads of a continent.
Reason September 2004 Cathy Young	Taking Science Seriously Stephen Rhoads, author of Taking Sex Differences Seriously, mixes genuinely interesting information and analysis with dubious generalizations, slim or anecdotal evidence, and sometimes downright junk science.
Reason September 2004 Brian Doherty	Historia Discordia Meet Kerry Thornley. While few people noticed, he invented one of the 20th century's more influential religions, helped launch '60s-style sex-and-nature neopaganism, and was a major force behind the first modern libertarian 'zine.
Reason September 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Artifact: Bare Virtue At a time when a naked breast brings cries of "indecency," such shifts in fashion can be revealing in more ways than one.
Outside August 2004 Nick Reding	El Ultimo Vaquero Habla Espanol (The Last Cowboy Speaks Spanish) On the high plains of the West, tough men still ride herd on the open range. But the new riders are lonely gauchos from Chile and Peru, and their 21st-century frontier is a place where the cowboy myth meets a harsh reality.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Palmeri & Byrnes	Is Japanese Style Taking Over The World? From video games and cartoons to cell phones and cars, Japan's influence on pop culture and consumer trends runs deep.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Palmeri & Byrnes	A Tsunami of Japanese Pop Culture Cartoon and comics-related products from Japan are flooding into the U.S., boosted by online communities and an exploding fan base.
Reason July 2004 Steven Vincent	Grave Injustice Federal laws about burial remains put politics before science.
Reason July 2004 Julian Sanchez	Cheating Heart A book review of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead: does capitalism teach people to break the rules?.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Stephen Baker	Reaching the Connected Generation Cell phones, movies, IM, the Net, TV, e-mail. An anthropologist tries to fathom how advertisers can approach today's youth.
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