Social Issues

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

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CRM July 2005 Colin Beasty	Lending a Helping Hand Business outsourcing provider Pearson Government Solutions answers the call of thousands who take employment for granted with those who cannot.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Monitoring the Most Dangerous U.S. Volcanoes An assessment of the risks and hazards associated with volcanoes has led U.S. researchers to suggest a plan of action for avoiding future disasters, including threats to airplanes and populations living around these features.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Following Scientists Post-9/11 Maintaining the influx of visiting foreign students and researchers may be problematic, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee found, despite recent improvements.
Geotimes July 2005 Hirsch et al.	Peaking of World Oil Production: Is the Wolf Near? We are finding less and less oil in spite of vigorous efforts, suggesting that nature may not have much more to provide. As such, many credible analysts have recently become much more pessimistic about the possibility of finding the huge new reserves needed to meet growing world demand.
Geotimes July 2005 Linda Rowan	The Energy Bill: Is It Big and Broad Enough? Unfortunately, the House bill falls short of achieving a comprehensive national energy policy and will do little to prevent a potential global energy crisis.
CIO July 1, 2005 Thomas Wailgum	Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data.
CIO July 1, 2005 Elana Varon	$33 Billion-Gone! 35% of all software installed on the world's personal computers is pirated, according to a global study.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Peter Fairley	The Greening of GE Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers, is suddenly Big Business.
IDB America June 2005 Peter Bate	Tegucigalpa's Downtown Turns a Corner An Inter-American Development Bank-financed project helps Hondurans rescue their capital's historic district.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
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