United States

Magazine articles on politics and society in the United States.

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Fast Company November 2005 Mark N. Vamos	No Way to Run a Business When it comes to planning for trouble and responding nimbly when that trouble hits, government-as-business could learn a thing or two from Wal-Mart.
Fast Company November 2005 Chuck Salter	Diving Right In Correspondence from the Gulf Coast.
Geotimes November 2005 Megan Sever	The Increasing Costs of U.S. Natural Disasters Population trends, mitigation efforts and federal disaster relief policies all contribute to encouraging high-risk land use and ultimately to making our society more vulnerable to the costs of natural disasters.
Geotimes November 2005 John A. Kelmelis	The Geosciences and Future Foreign Policy The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of State have paired up in a project to identify emerging earth science findings that are both reliable and have foreign policy implications.
Geotimes November 2005 Steve Quane	A Volcanologist Enters Energy Politics The tragedies in the Gulf Coast exposed to the world an issue that has been of concern for years -- the lack of a comprehensive plan to reduce U.S. dependence on nonrenewable resources, including oil.
Outside November 2005 Amanda Griscom Little	Prius Envy Who's that woman screaming about global warming? It's Laurie David -- wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David -- and she's convinced that what the earth needs now is Hollywood.
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Roy Mark	Final Fed OK to Telecom Mergers FCC signs off on telecom mergers as SBC and Verizon agree to sell standalone DSL, adhere to network neutrality and continue Internet backbone peering.
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Eamon Javers	Unlikely Rebel On The Right Meet Mike Pence, the conservative who's leading a revolt against runaway spending.
CIO November 1, 2005 Michael Jackman	Spies in the Server Closet To skirt the Supreme Court's ruling last year against file-sharing networks, some programmers have announced they would pursue private, invitation-only networks -- so-called darknets. But they might also be courting a new channel for corporate espionage.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Run Away, Jury! The problem with the American legal system isn't the rapacious lawyers -- it's the idiotic jurors.
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