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Reason July 2003 Jacob Sullum	Book Bind: Street vendor regulations New Orleans issues permits to street vendors selling food, flowers, razor blades, and pencils, but not books. And anything that's not explicitly permitted is forbidden, city officials say. Would-be booksellers Josh Wexler and Anne Jordan Blanton are fighting the law to sell their wares.
Reason July 2003 Sara Rimensnyder	Rave On How a bad bill becomes a law: The RAVE Act, now officially known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, passed both the House and Senate in April without ever having gone through committee and without floor debate.
Reason July 2003 Sara Rimensnyder	Data: The Spoils of War In April, President George W. Bush signed off on nearly $80 billion in emergency spending to pay for the war on Iraq. With that much money in play, the White House and Congress couldn't help but throw in a few extra goodies that had nothing to do with Iraq.
Reason July 2003 Bob Briggs	Socialized Gambling Illinois pols want to muscle in on casinos.
Reason July 2003 Tim Cavanaugh	Low Budget Feeling blue and seeing red over a free-spending administration
Reason July 2003 Doug Bandow	Cutting the Tripwire It's time for the U.S. to get out of Korea
Reason July 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Selling Saddam State propaganda usually enlarges the enemy as a perpetrator of atrocity and a bestial threat to civilization. The contemporary market, by contrast, has shrunk him.
Information Today July 7, 2003 Miriam. A. Drake	Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all.
Knowledge@Wharton July 2, 2003	Soft Money, Hard Money: Campaign-Finance Reform's Impact on Business The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's ban on corporate and union political donations may be made permanent, and the business community will be forced to find alternative ways of advancing its agenda on Capitol Hill.
Outside July 2003 Peter Maass	The Rough Guide to Iraq This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.
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