Social Issues

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

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BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson	Good Works -- With A Business Plan Just a decade ago, there were virtually no business school courses or student projects on social entrepreneurship. Today most top business schools have both.
AskMen.com Eddie Chandler	How To: Deal With Someone's Death When someone dies, everyone feels their own mortality. Although we aren't as exposed to death as our parents and grandparents are, it's nevertheless important to understand what to say and do when it does happen.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Kerry Capell	Vaccinating The World's Poor GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals is betting it can combat Third World scourges -- and still make money.
Science News April 17, 2004 Janet Raloff	When It's No Longer Baby Fat Nutritionists and epidemiologists have been documenting a disquieting trend: Increasingly, children are plump by the time they enter school--and they get fatter as they grow.
ifeminists April 14, 2004 K. C. Wilson	Is 50 / 50 Residency the Right Target? It was bold, and possibly suicidal, for the Shared Parenting Council of Australia to make 50:50 residency its seminal target for family law reform.
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 John Carey	Drugs: Is Something Rotten? The author of The $800 million pill recounts how many drugs were created with government funding -- then were sold to consumers at sky-high prices. And he proves that Big Pharma need not require $800 million to develop an important new drug, as it insists.
ifeminists April 7, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Lies of Faux Victims Cast Doubt on Real Ones Will you be willing to believe the next woman (or man) who claims to be a victim?
ifeminists April 7, 2004 George Rolph	The Anatomy of Abuse This article hopes to be an aid towards helping us all understand the nature of domestic abuse and those who perpetrate or encourage it.
ifeminists April 7, 2004	Letter to the Editor: Abortion When reflecting on matter of abortion, however, I think that a very important point to remember is that it does not constitute a violation of human rights. This point seems to escape many people.
Reason April 2004 Cathy Young	Abuse Revisited A feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence. Mills concludes that using the "big stick" of the law as our dominant (or only) response to domestic violence ill-serves both women and men.
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