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BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Kerry Capell	A Food Fight the U.S. Is Sure to Lose Once again, Europe and the U.S. are at loggerheads. This time, they're fighting over food, not foreign policy. On July 2, the European Parliament passed legislation calling for detailed labeling of genetically modified (GM) food products.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Robert J. Barro	Medicare: Forget the Drug Benefit, and Face Up to Real Reforms Washington seems poised to make a major error on Medicare. The program's costs are out of control, and the situation will deteriorate further as the population ages. We should be considering basic changes to the structure of the health-care market.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Roger O. Crockett	For Blacks, Progress without Parity Fewer are poor, but blacks are no closer to economic equality
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Howard Gleckman	This Medicare Reform Is No Cure The theory: The shift will improve treatment and save taxpayers money, helping to rein in ballooning Medicare costs while offsetting the expense of the drug benefit. Those are laudable goals. Unfortunately, Congress isn't likely to achieve them.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Roger O. Crockett	Jesse Jackson on "Savage Inequality" The controversial civil rights leader talks about the economic effects resulting from the "broken promise" of equality
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Roger O. Crockett	How to Narrow the Great Race Divide Progress in narrowing the economic divide between blacks and whites has stalled, and the time has come for a new national effort. Unlike in the 1960s, though, the battle can't be run out of DC. It will require the efforts of all levels of government, as well as companies, schools, and individuals.
ifeminists July 8, 2003 Wendy McElroy	The PCspeak of Diversity The U.S. Supreme Court's ambiguous affirmative-action decision might seem to encourage open discussion but political correctness sometimes seems determined that debate will not occur. PCspeak, like Newspeak in George Orwell's classic novel 1984, forms an effective barrier.
ifeminists July 8, 2003 Todd Andrew Barnett	Christine Wilhelm: "Mentally Ill" Victim or Murderer? Christine Wilhelm, the mother who stands accused of murdering her four-year old son Luke by drowning him in a bathtub in their home near Vermont on April 16th, 2002, has become the latest poster girl of the mental health field establishment.
Reason July 2003 Jacob Sullum	Jury Ragging: Medical pot in federal courts When Ed Rosenthal was convicted on federal marijuana cultivation charges last winter, his friends and supporters were not the only ones who were upset. So were the people who convicted him.
Reason July 2003 Jesse Walker	Ways to Vote: Electoral home rule The advocates of electoral reform have offered many alternatives to the familiar winner-take-all system. If Assemblywoman Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) gets her way, Golden State voters will have a chance to use any or all of several options at election time.
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