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Reason November 2004 David G. Post	Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.
Reason November 2004 Hanah Metchis	Subway Searches Most Americans are resigned to being searched every time they enter an airport. Now baggage searches are spreading to light rail, subways, and buses.
Reason November 2004 Hanah Metchis	Secession Fever Residents of Killington, a ski town in Vermont, were so mad about their high state taxes that in March they approved a plan to secede from the state and join neighboring New Hampshire. Now other towns want to flee Vermont as well.
Reason November 2004 Julian Sanchez	Selling PATRIOT The Department of Justice released "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at Work," to help persuade its critics that the PATRIOT Act is both necessary to fight terrorism and unlikely to undermine American liberties. But a close reading of the report suggests the opposite is true.
Reason November 2004 Hanah Metchis	Judge, Jury, and Cop A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the Border Patrol, says deportation procedures that could take up to 12 months in the past can be processed in just a few days under a new policy.
Reason November 2004 Julian Sanchez	Data With taxes reduced but spending unchecked, deficits make a comeback and keep growing in 2010, even before the entitlement explosion we'll see as the baby boomers retire.
Reason November 2004 Julian Sanchez	Soundbite The new book All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth argues that Bush has mastered the Clintonian art of carefully crafting misleading statements that are technically true. Here's an interview with the authors.
Managed Care October 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Not So Much of a Reach: Let Sick Pay Less for Drugs The idea is radical and simple: Those who need medication the most should pay the least. There is evidence that this is cost-effective.
Managed Care October 2004 Tony Schueth	Formulary Standards Key To E-Prescribing Success Electronic prescribing needs standardization before it's adopted by the masses. Start with the format of formulary databases.
Managed Care October 2004 John A. Marcille	It Appears To Be a Good Idea, Based on What We Know Now As the election sprints toward its finale, issues such as health care could reach a point where a course is chosen that breaks with the evolutionary progression that has gotten us here.
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