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Reason August 2002 Brian Doherty	Following the Scrip Medical privacy in Florida: The Florida legislature has declined to go along with Gov. Jeb Bush's attempt to turn a family problem into a problem for the whole state.
Reason August 2002 Mike Lynch	Building Crisis That housing prices have held up in the midst of the stock market downturn is considered a blessing by many economists -- and by the nearly seven in 10 families that own their homes. But it's a cause of concern for local pols and academics who worry for a living.
Reason August 2002 Sara Rimensnyder	POTUS and the Brain Tevi Troy, author of Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?, has some advice for presidents: Don't be an intellectual yourself, but don't ignore intellectuals.
Salon.com September 3, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in Utah As the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, terror-related urban legends are running rampant. Luckily, Snopes.com is on the case.
Salon.com September 3, 2002 Damien Cave	Imaginary infants as beacons of hope Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending?
Information Today September 2002 Barbara Quint	'Documents? What Documents?' The long-term feud between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government over who gets to print and publish federal government documents has broken out once more.
Information Today August 5, 2002 Miriam A. Drake	Is the GPO Endangered? For the Government Printing Office, dissemination of government documents is a nonpartisan, virtually automatic process, which has been enhanced in recent years by expanded reliance on the Internet and other new technologies. Now the GPO's hands have been tied.
Reason August 2002 Michael McMenamin	Knave of Torts Cooler coffee for $3 million and other lawyer bargains: a review of Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law, by Carl T. Bogus
Managed Care August 2002	Interview: Richard D. Lamm The former three-time governor of Colorado, who is a senior citizen, says that older Americans need to make sacrifices for the generations to come.
Managed Care August 2002 Maureen Glabman	Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of The "right ... to petition the government" has come a long way in over 200 years, and health care organizations are not shy in exercising it.
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