Social Issues

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

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AskMen.com March 8, 2005 Eddie Chandler	Dealing With Noise Pollution What is noise pollution? It can literally make you sick, so how do you minimize it?
PC World April 2005 Anne Kandra	Watch Out for Spies With Friendly Faces Otherwise benign hardware and software can be used to track your behavior.
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Geri Smith	Is Venezuela's Chavez Killing The Golden Goose? Venenzuelan President Hugo Chavez is using oil industry profits to enhance social programs. He is also using oil in his bid to turn Venezuela into a counterweight to U.S. influence in Latin America, causing a strain in relations.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Cities at Risk From Below As urban centers expand, people build more and more underground spaces that remain unmapped. Their interconnections during natural hazards such as floods are a potential threat, according to researchers.
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Wendy McElroy	U.N. Wrong Forum for Women's Rights How can a self-respecting woman, let alone a feminist, legitimize the U.N. through her presence? The CSW should be in the forefront of those crying out for justice and U.N. accountability.
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Carey Roberts	Feminist Head-Games at the United Nations This week and next, thousands of ever-angry feminists descend like locusts on the United Nations headquarters in New York City for a 10-year reprise of Beijing.
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett	Violence Against Women Act Ignores Epidemic Of Violent Women What will future historians have to say about the current women's movement? That it falsely branded our husbands and boyfriends as batterers? That it ignored abusive women who needed help? That it substituted compassion and reason for a vindictive gender ideology?
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse	The True Cost of False Witness False or frivolous charges of child abuse play havoc with the family court system, and in the lives of many innocent people. At the very least, society needs to impose some penalty for inflicting those kinds of costs on others.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Karen DeMasters	A Passion For Values Some advisors are focusing their practices on socially conscious investing.
Real Travel Adventures March 2005 Andreas Kristinus	Travelers Turn On to Offsetting their Climate Change Impacts Promoting `sustainable travel', a nonprofit brought together a service to offset climate impacts from travel and a travel agency that knows how to use it.
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