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National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Law Enforcement Takes to Boats Around Vital Waterways There is a nationwide trend to place more law enforcement into boats. Coordination among U.S. Coast Guard personnel, state police, first responders and local cops is essential to enhancing security on the nation's waterways.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Researchers Fill Data Gaps for Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Understanding the effects of non-lethal weapons is critical both to their development and the doctrine that will govern their use. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy chore, according to military and law enforcement experts.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	South America Hotspot Garners U.S. Attention In the global war on terrorism, most attention is reserved for military actions in the Middle East. When Latin America is discussed in this context, the focus and most of the funding goes to Colombia and its war on narco-terrorist rebels.
National Defense June 2005 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Targets BANNED Weapon Exports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement--an arm of the Department of Homeland Security that is known as ICE--is cracking down on the illegal exportation of military arms and other sensitive technology.
Science News May 21, 2005 Janet Raloff	Star Wars Goes Organic The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has just unveiled a 5-minute short parody of the early Star Wars movies--Store Wars: The Organic Rebellion. The production hopes to raise awareness of organic farming.
Parameters Summer 2005 Michael H. Hoffman	Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism Terrorists are gaining an astonishing legal edge over US and other armed forces deployed against them. Judicial intervention in the law of war since September 11, 2001 already far exceeds anything ever before experienced, by any nation, in the history of warfare.
Parameters Summer 2005 Dan Henk	Human Security: Relevance and Implications The human security paradigm in the U.S. relegates the coercive instruments of state power to secondary roles, questions the public sector monopoly on allocation of value, and insists on the essentially equivalent prominence and contribution of individual and corporate stakeholders.
Reason May 2005 Kohn et al.	Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints.
Reason May 2005 Ronald Bailey	The Global Warming Code Michael Crichton tells the truth in his new technopolitical thriller State of Fear.
Reason May 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Inciting Censorship British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has added a measure to the proposed Serious Organized Crime and Police Bill that would create a new offense: "incitement of religious hatred."
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