Social Issues

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

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Scientific American August 21, 2006 Sally Lehrman	Missing No Longer An international commission forges ahead to identify genocide victims. The political situation is far from settled in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and ethnic and nationalistic tensions still simmer.
InternetNews August 17, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Judge Orders End To Warrantless Wiretaps A federal judge today ordered the Bush administration to cease all warrantless wiretapping of calls between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists.
Chemistry World August 16, 2006 Michael Gross	Nanoparticle Toxicity Tested The rapid advance of nanotechnology has raised concerns that substances known to be harmless in bulk might turn out toxic or carcinogenic in certain fibrous or nanoparticle forms.
ifeminists August 16, 2006 Carey Roberts	A Woman Can Do Anything a Man Can Do (Well, Almost) Mom and dad are not interchangeable: little boys don't identify with their moms the same way they bond with their dads. And girls learn different lessons from dads than from moms.
ifeminists August 16, 2006 Karen De Coster	Women and the Freedom Philosophy: Is There Hope? Women, who usually have nurturing tendencies from birth, take this virtue outside of family and voluntary relationships, and turn it into a top-down cultivation wherein the state, through coercive and interventionist methods, breeds an entire generation of foster children.
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Ed Sutherland	EFF Goes After AOL The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL's disclosure of search data for 650,000 users.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Richard W. Wiggins	AOL Is Caught in Its Own Long Tail The utter stupidity of this is staggering. AOL has released very private data about its users without their permission.
BusinessWeek August 21, 2006 Stacy Perman	Scones And Social Responsibility Dancing Deer Baking's Karter has a recipe for creating a brand with values.
Chemistry World August 11, 2006 Perks & Sanderson	Terror Plot Sparks Frenzied Speculation About Liquid Explosives Widespread speculation on the chemistry of liquid explosives, following news of a terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic flights from the UK, must be treated with caution, warn leading chemists.
ifeminists August 9, 2006 Carey Roberts	Blame It on the Patriarchy Imagine what would happen if people arose from their slumber one day, looked around in amazement at the false idols that now surround us, and came to realize that Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and their fellow myth-makers are the modern-day incarnations of the Jezebels and Delilahs of yore?
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