Social Issues

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

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CIO October 15, 2002 Meridith Levinson	Can IT Help the Homeless? San Francisco's IT plan tries to help the homeless.
Wired November 2002 Steven Johnson	Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb?
Salon.com October 14, 2002 Jason George	"When is this going to end?" With its own newspaper and hot line, a group run by Palestinian kids attempts to create hope from despair.
Salon.com October 10, 2002 Beth Frerking	When your kids are in the line of fire A parent in the path of a spree killer has little to offer beyond slim protection and lessons in real life.
T.H.E. Journal October 2002	Web-Based Instructional Program Helps Advance American Indians in Arizona Native Americans for Community Action (NACA), a health and human services agency in Flagstaff that serves primarily off-reservation American Indians, has gone well beyond traditional methods of learning by offering its clients self-paced instruction over the Internet.
Reason October 2002 Jeremy Lott	Persistent Protesters The School of the Americas, recently renamed, is infamous for training dictators such as Manuel Noriega. But it may as well be regarded as an ongoing internship program for American political protesters, who have been demonstrating against the school for 15 years.
Reason October 2002 Jacob Sullum	Party Poopers You thought it was bad when you heard that you could lose your house if your son planted a few marijuana seeds in the corner of your yard. That was nothing. Under a Senate bill introduced last summer, you could go to prison for letting him hold a party where someone passes around a joint.
Reason October 2002 Brian Doherty	I Spy Whether or not President Bush's Operation TIPS ultimately goes into effect, the Justice Department's initial enthusiasm for it, even in the face of public and congressional opposition, is a frightening sign for the future of civil liberties.
Reason October 2002 Mike Lynch	Making a Killing in Business When crime pays, there will be plenty of criminals. That's the real story behind corporate malfeasance.
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier	Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom.
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