Social Issues

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

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Reason December 2005 Jacob Sullum	Cluster Busters Researchers posit that a concentration of fast-food restaurants around schools within a short walking distance for students is an important public health concern in America.
Reason December 2005 Jacob Sullum	Poppy Flop According to the U.N., efforts to halt opium production in Afghanistan resulted in cutting the acreage devoted to poppies by one-fifth. Yet opium production is virtually unchanged, and the country still accounts for an estimated 87% of the world's heroin
Reason December 2005 Ronald Bailey	Data: Escape from Poverty In 2000 the world's eight richest nations set the Millennium Development Goals... Average annual global per capita income fell, in real dollars, from $445 in 1 A.D. to $436 in 1000 A.D. By 1820 it had increased to $667... etc.
Reason December 2005 Kerry Howley	Soundbite: Intimate Revelations An interview with Princeton's Viviana A. Zelizer who argues that economic exchange is a crucial part of our quest to create, define, and maintain intimate relationships -- and that if money can't buy love, it can at least help sustain it.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Net Censorship and Democracy's Fall Whoever clicks on a blacklisted site, for whatever reason, may end up with an automated black mark in his or her company's dossier.
InternetNews December 2, 2005 David Needle	BrainJam Comes to Silicon Valley The first BrainJam at the SRI International campus is designed to bring lots of ideas together and then get them out on the Web.
Outside December 2005 Michael Behar	Save the Seas Fabien Cousteau is creating a pacesetting documentary to make the public more aware of the declining health of the world's ocean's.
Outside December 2005 Sara Blask	Fuel an Energy Revolution Daniel Emmett is leading the transformation from gasoline to hydrogen by creating a network of hydrogen-fuel stations.
Outside December 2005 Ace Atkins	Aftershock Documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the biggest natural disaster in American history.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Saavedra & Arias	Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America.
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