Social Issues

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

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The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Fight Crime With Plastic Credit cards have some interesting advantages over cash. Non-cash transactions make it a little safer for those employed by businesses that are frequent targets of bandits.
HBS Working Knowledge October 10, 2005 Manda Salls	Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do? Does it make legal, ethical, or economic sense for companies to participate in environmental corporate social responsibility programs? A new book attempts to separate fact from fiction on the debate.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Alexander Hellemans	Sins Of Transmission? Vatican Radio's high-power antennas stand accused of causing cancer. This case is but the latest episode in a half-century-long scientific controversy.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvador & Sherry	Taking the Internet to the People At Internet outposts in India, Peru, and Hungary, even the computer illiterate reap the advantages of the Web. Public Internet facilities are solving real problems, defying cookie-cutter categorizations of nonoriginality, and becoming a growing and vital force in the vast developing world.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Reason October 2005 Nick Gillespie	Artifact: War's Nightmare Landscape This horrifying image shows a young boy scarred by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945. Almost unbelievably, he would not only survive, but live into the 21st century.
Reason October 2005 Jacob Sullum	Pansies of New York Regarding random police searches in New York, if any measure that is ostensibly aimed at preventing terrorism is justified simply because some people believe it will prevent terrorism, we might as well forget about our constitutional rights.
Reason October 2005 Daniel Koffler	Grand Theft Scapegoat Video game prohibitionists are highly selective about the evidence they present, hoping to substitute raw emotional appeal for a plausible explanatory framework. Unfortunately, blanket condemnations and frightening anecdotes are likely to be with us as long as they prove electorally profitable.
Reason October 2005 Daniel Koffler	Honest Agents At DEA Watch, anonymous narcs gather to share rather disturbing musings on politics and American public policy.
Reason October 2005 Kerry Howley	Police Tricks Chicago's police department posts online pictures, names, and partial addresses of the city's alleged johns in effort to "out" them and shame them straight.
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