Social Issues

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

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CIO January 1, 2003 Lew McCreary	Life with Everyone Watching Dan Geer, CTO of security vendor @Stake, thinks that the expense of password-based security systems may lead to a cheaper, less-private world where everything people do is inexpensively logged and stored.
CIO January 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Who Do You Trust? A "trusted traveler" program that would allow prescreened passengers to speed through airport security may not be all that trustworthy.
CIO January 1, 2003 Julie Hanson	All Inside the Family The members of the Jacobs family don't consider themselves unusual. That changed last May when they became the first family to all have the grain-size VeriChip implanted in their right arm.
ifeminists December 17, 2002 Wendy McElroy	Compassion, Kindness Killed by Fear, Paranoia Terrorists hope to destroy the social fabric of the West by instilling a paranoia into our lives that makes us turn against each other. It is working.
Fast Company January 2003 Linda Tischler	Master of Deception Police veteran Dennis Marlock has written the book on scams, cons, and frauds, which makes him an expert witness to what's gone wrong in the executive suites of corporate America. Does everyone lie? Aren't we too smart to get conned? Some honest talk about dishonest business.
Fast Company January 2003 Curtis Sittenfeld	What Would It Take to End Homelessness? Rosanne Haggerty's Common Ground dares to ask a radical social question -- and then to create innovative economic solutions.
Salon.com December 16, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	Bush to California: Choke on this The White House has joined with the oil and auto industries to undermine the state's rigorous environmental regulations.
Wired January 2003 Charles C. Mann	The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world.
Outside December 2002 Mark Levine	Tuvalu Toodle-oo Is paradise drowning? The serene South Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu wants the world to know it will soon be the first nation to sink beneath the rising waters of global warming -- an early warning of biblical inundations to come. And guess what? It's your fault.
Salon.com December 5, 2002 Jennifer Foote Sweeney	No children allowed President Bush wants welfare recipients to marry -- but not have kids.
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