Social Issues

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

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Fast Company March 1, 2007 Jennifer Vilaga	Nano-Sleuths Authentix's technology spots fake fuel and drugs -- and could help millions of poor people.
Reason March 2007 Ronald Bailey	Benign Cells? Trial lawyers compare the mobile phone companies to the tobacco industry and claim they're guilty of an elaborate cancer cover-up. That conspiracy theory might finally be quashed by a recent study in the Journal of the National Institute of Cancer.
Reason March 2007 Jacob Sullum	Smoke-Free Homes California is leading the way again with smoking bans that cover outdoor locations and even private residences.
Reason March 2007 Radley Balko	Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up.
Reason March 2007 Jacob Sullum	Zoned Out Police and prosecutors worry that onerous residency restrictions will push sex offenders onto the streets or discourage them from complying with registration requirements, making them harder to track.
Reason March 2007 David Weigel	40 Years War The federal government's Automated Targeting System, launched in 2002, is a vast database that records who is traveling, gives them risk assessments, and adds them to a database for at least four years.
Reason March 2007 Radley Balko	Cold Comfort Given all the abuse the drug companies were taking because of meth cooks' illegal use of their products, you could almost forgive Pfizer for putting a useless product on the shelves.
Reason March 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Who Gives to Charity? An interview with Arthur C. Brooks, author of Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism about what motivates Americans to give.
Chemistry World March 8, 2007 Jessica Ebert	How to Catch an Insulin-Doping Athlete A growing number of athletes reportedly take insulin to boost their performance illegally, but controlling insulin abuse has gone largely unchecked. Now, a urine test designed by German and Belgian scientists could be set to change all that.
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Erik Sofge	Underwater Wind Turbines Tap River Energy A new approach to renewable energy could harvest clean electric power from rivers.
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