Social Issues

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

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Reason May 2005 Kerry Howley	Rickshaw Rights The World Bank vs. entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
Reason May 2005 Julian Sanchez	Data If Roe v. Wade were reversed tomorrow, what would America look like?
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 Aaron Bernstein	A Major Swipe At Sweatshops Nike, Patagonia, Gap, and five other companies have joined forces with six leading anti-sweatshop groups to devise a single set of labor standards with a common factory-inspection system. If a pilot project in Turkey succeeds, long-sought global labor standards could emerge.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Erico Guizzo	Zone of Silence Invented for an MIT thesis, Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming Our Personal Space, a gizmo defends against cellphone chatter.
ifeminists May 11, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Runaway Bride Lost in Junk Journalism It is all too possible that people will react to the mass coverage of the bride's family's pain by calling for a law to prevent similar occurrences. And, so, because of a mentally and morally unbalanced woman, every one of us could become a little less free.
ifeminists May 11, 2005 Carey Roberts	Whatever Happened to Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? The feminist movement in the U.S. has turned out to be a Trojan Horse that caters to women's sense of privilege, preference, and power. This ideology has now ended up reinforcing the worst stereotypes about vindictive women who can't rein in their own emotions.
T.H.E. Journal May 2005	Motorola Launches `Race to Recycle' School Fund-Raiser The K-12 program offers schools cash for discarded mobile phones and connects community involvement with the classroom experience and environmental awareness.
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Joseph Weber	Waging War On Hunger How ex-Marine Mike Mulqueen transformed a Chicago food bank into a role model for food banks around the country.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Pathways to survival The tiny world of a little Brazilian monkey gets bigger---and just in time.
IDB America April 2005 Paul Constance	How to Extend an Oasis For farmers in one Haitian valley, a concrete irrigation canal makes all the difference.
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