Social Issues

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

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Salon.com August 5, 2002 Michelle Goldberg	Noelle Bush gets rehab, the poor and black get hard time Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws.
Outside August 2002 John Galvin	Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash.
Salon.com July 29, 2002 Damien Cave	Grime pays Bush's cuts to the Superfund reward corporate polluters for stonewalling and leave neighbors of toxic sites frustrated and desperate.
IDB America Charo Quesada	The "third sector" comes of age After two decades of unregulated growth, civil society organizations are looking for official ways to influence government policies and actions.
IDB America Roger Hamilton	Passions and profits For many, the real bottom line in ecotourism is conservation.
IDB America	IDB funds low-income housing in Trinidad and Tobago The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $32 million loan to Trinidad and Tobago to support the first phase of a $100 million national housing program designed to benefit low-income groups.
IDB America Charo Quesada	Civil society causes a political earthquake in Costa Rica The 2002 national elections in Costa Rica offer a vivid example of just how influential civil society organizations have become in Latin America.
IDB America Charo Quesada	Leaders at home and beyond Nimia Vargas's initiatives in Choco, Colombia, are creating a core group of industrious women engaged in continuous efforts to secure equal treatment and equal opportunities.
Salon.com July 26, 2002 Ian Williams	Mary Robinson The outgoing U.N. high commissioner for human rights talks about running afoul of the Bush administration over Israel and the Palestinians, ending the "cycle of impunity" and standing up to bullies.
Salon.com July 24, 2002 Margaret A. Woodbury	A doctor's right to choose Two surgical options for late-term abortion may be reduced to one if antiabortion activists, with help from the Bush administration, get their way.
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