Social Issues

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

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Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez	Blowing Off Steam The American Civil Liberties Union released its analysis of 44 autopsies and death reports on detainees who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan -- almost half were classed as homicides.
Chemistry World February 3, 2006 Arthur Rogers	Europe Tightens Fluorinated Gas Restrictions European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is threatening tougher controls on use of fluorinated gases implicated in global warming.
InternetNews February 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Three Empty Seats Google, Yahoo and MSN were all invited to brief the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on the search engine industry's complicit endorsement of China's Internet censorship policies, yet they were all no shows.
Chemistry World February 2, 2006 Jon Evans	Researchers Put Bioenergetics Into Biomagnification A mathematical model developed by researchers is set to improve understanding of how persistent organic pollutants accumulate in different animal species.
Chemistry World February 2006	Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Bush addresses alternative energy Tucked between talk of U.S. heathcare reform and American economic competitiveness, the president rolled out his new Advanced Energy Initiative, which he said will help the United States can "move beyond a petroleum-based economy."
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest.
IDB America January 2006	The Elusive Quest for Equality Growth indices in Latin America are on the rise, education and health are improving, exports are climbing, institutions are becoming more democratic -- but poverty and inequality indicators refuse to budge.
IDB America January 2006 Charo Quesada	Using the Classroom to Fight for Peace A new study explores how educational programs can help to heal societies battered by conflict: El Salvador and educational reform... Vietnam and children... Peru and human rights... Colombia: laboratories for peace... etc.
IDB America January 2006	IDB Approves New Environmental Policy This policy brings will steer the Bank's work toward mainstreaming environmental considerations across sectors, safeguarding the environmental quality of all IDB operations and making the Bank socially and environmentally responsible within its own facilities.
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