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ifeminists December 30, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like?
Geotimes December 2003	Unnecessary devastation in Iran Residents in California have come to expect that their buildings will survive an earthquake. In that light, the extent of the damage in Iran is horrific. Increasingly, in less developed countries with skyrocketing urban centers, untrustworthy construction has led to high numbers of deaths.
Smithsonian January 2004 Gregory Jaynes	Coming to America A Somali Bantu refugee family leaves 19th-century travails behind in Africa to take up life in 21st-century Phoenix.
Smithsonian January 2004 Fen Montaigne	Policing America's Ports The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons.
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Christopher Farrell	Can Gratitude Cure Americans' Woes? Gregg Easterbrook's lively The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse draws upon both liberal and conservative sources and combines a vast amount of scholarly research and reporting to generate a thoughtful, sustained argument.
CIO December 15, 2003 Art Jahnke	We Can Shape The Global Economy Economist Lester Thurow says globalization can have long-term benefits for all Americans, but only if we move to shape what happens during the next few years.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities.
Adventure Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Shan-san Wu	The Atkins Zone The Houdini of fast escapes from international prisons advises on how to get out--and stay out--of jail while traveling abroad. Plus, some good reasons to avoid getting slammed in these six notorious tourist traps.
Fast Company January 2004 Cheryl Dahle	Social Capitalists Most of us see the world's most daunting problems as impossible challenges. But these 20 groups see the world's problems as just problems, ones that can be fixed with the right ideas and enough passion. And they see how the systems that produced those problems can be reinvented.
Science News December 13, 2003 Janet Raloff	When Drought Reigns, Diets Can Turn Poisonous For many people in drought-stricken Africa, food and water will be in perilously short supply this season. So short, in fact, that some people in Ethiopia are already making the grass pea -- a cousin of the sweet pea -- a dietary staple. But to eat the grass pea is to flirt with possible paralysis.
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