Social Issues

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

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IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest.
IDB America January 2006	We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Contraception Goes Organic Brazilian officials are hopeful that a commercial product such as condoms -- sold with their all-natural cachet -- will give the standing Amazonian rainforest additional value and boost incomes for the families that make their living from it.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Chico Mendes: Amazon Journey In tiny forest communities in the far western corner of the Brazilian Amazon, conversations often begin and end with the rubber tapper who rallied local communities and world opinion to the cause of protecting tropical forests and their inhabitants.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	New Amazonians Latin America is attempting to create a relationship between man and nature that includes the history, heritage and views of local people.
Reason February 2006 Will Wilkinson	Happiness Is...Higher Taxes The book Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, by Richard Layard, embraces the idea that that nothing has value -- not excellence, not knowledge, not self-creation, not dignity, not community with God -- unless it produces the warm glow of happy feelings.
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	The Wages of Sin Are investors sacrificing returns by engaging in socially responsible investing?
ifeminists February 1, 2006 Wendy McElroy	Questions to Ask Scientific Authority Stem cell research may be the most sensational and explosive scientific development of recent years. It also highlights the admonition, "Question Authority."
ifeminists February 1, 2006 Carey Roberts	Bias Suit Reveals the Truth Behind the 'Boy Crisis' Why American boys are falling academically behind in a glitter and feathers world.
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