Social Issues

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

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IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Foster & Jaeger	RFID Inside Maybe the ultimate solution, to allow accurate identification of individuals without some of the ethical issues raised by implanted radio chips, might require a different technology completely -- biometric scanners.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Willie D. Jones	Ontario Quits Coal In the province's energy plans, Kyoto looms large.
ifeminists February 28, 2007 Carey Roberts	Foul Emanations from the U.N. Feminism is reaching its natural culmination, the stage of social destruction. See what the UN feminists did to UNICEF. Look at how they maligned traditional notions of masculinity and femininity. And witness the disintegration of the traditional family.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Identity Fraud: ID Theft Victims, Losses Take Welcome Nosedive New account vulnerabilities are toughened, but 'vishing,' limited alerts practices, and consumers' misguided personal trust in acquaintances still leave the doors wide open.
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Stephen Baskerville	Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government.
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Tony Zizza	ADHD and Coca-Cola Come Up Flat The selling and marketing of alleged mental disorders remains a part of our popular culture. Ever since the FDA finally put black box warnings on ADHD drugs for children, drug companies and the mainstream media have been trying to convince adults that they also suffer from ADHD.
Smithsonian March 2007 Joshua Hammer	Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
Smithsonian March 2007 Sam Hooper Samuels	Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
Smithsonian March 2007 John Lancaster	Next Stop, Squalor Is poverty tourism -- "poorism," they call it -- exploration or exploitation?
BusinessWeek March 5, 2007 Ian Rowley	Toyota's Bid for a Better Battery CEO Watanabe confirms that Toyota will develop new lithium-ion batteries for its third-generation hybrids.
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