Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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IDB America September 2003 Charo Quesada	An abiding outrage Everybody knows about the plight of street children, but too little is being done about it
IDB America September 2003 Roger Hamilton	Green mayor Instead of fighting local environmentalists, a young Honduran mayor puts them on the municipal staff
IDB America September 2003 Roger Hamilton	On the turtle's trail Endangered species generate public support in Honduras for measures to protect fragile ecosystems
Managed Care September 2003	Should Benefit to Individuals Outweigh Good for Groups? Medical ethicists believe the United States needs to have a forthright public debate about how to spend limited health care resources wisely. Can consumer-directed plans, with their emphasis on giving people a stake in health care costs, play a role in forming that public discussion?
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Aaron Bernstein	Stuck in the Slow Lane Two more-scholarly books give the numbers behind the anecdotes in Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling Nickel & Dimed, showing how subpoverty jobs have become a permanent and growing blight on the U.S. economy.
Fast Company October 2003 Jennifer Reingold	Harnessing the Net, One Phone at a Time. Voxiva's Paul Meyer is using telephones to bring the power of the Internet to areas that can't afford computers.
ifeminists September 30, 2003 Carey Roberts	Domestic Violence Campaign Not About Helping Women Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an excuse for radical feminists to perpetrate their myths that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in this country, that men are always the brutal perpetrators, and women the inevitable victims.
ifeminists September 30, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse	Aborting Child Protection Health-care personnel are ordinarily mandatory reporters of child abuse. But a recent survey has prompted the question of whether abortion clinics take this responsibility seriously.
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Ben Elgin	The Information Age's Toxic Garbage California could set the standard for dealing with discarded PCs.
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003	Collapse in Cancun: The World Trade Agenda Gets Sidetracked Despite a recognition that free trade in theory leads to greater global prosperity, participants at Cancun fell into two general, and opposing, camps.
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