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Reason June 2003 Jodie T. Allen	God Only Knows: The conflicting demands of wartime prayers You gotta feel a little sorry for God these days. The hotline from the White House has been hopping off the heavenly hook; the pope has been urging his flock to "persevere in unceasing prayer"; cries of "Allahu Akbar" echo from the streets of Gaza to those of Baghdad.
Searcher June 2003 Miriam Drake	You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Patriot II on the Way This article focuses on the government's data mining, information gathering, database building programs, and Radio Frequency Identification Chips.
Science News May 31, 2003 Janet Raloff	Global Food Trends Last year, for the third year in four, world per-capita grain production fell. Even more disturbing in a world where people still go hungry, at 294 kilograms, last year's per capita grain yield was the lowest in more than 30 years.
CIO June 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Immune Systems Health officials are working toward a sophisticated IT network that could detect the early warning signs of bioterrorism, but formidable obstacles remain.
Knowledge@Wharton May 21, 2003	"We Need a New Generation to Reshape the World" A look at James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank Group, and aid to developing nations.
Wired June 2003 Thomas Keenan	Tent City At its most basic level, humanitarianism calls out for a special kind of space -- a space of neutrality. Relief work challenges borders and governments; it aspires to create and protect a nonpartisan zone in the name of ordinary people.
Wired June 2003 Sanford Kwinter	Trailblazer In the far reaches of the Kalahari Desert, in southern Africa, researcher Louis Liebenberg is deploying what may be the first illiterate computers integrated into a hunter-gatherer society, a group known as the San Bushmen. His research brings together very new and very old kinds of intelligence.
Wired June 2003 Sarah Whiting	Quiet Riot: When Speech is Zoned, is it Free? Organized protest has met the security state's science of crowd control: free speech zoning.
ifeminists May 13, 2003 Tiffany Hyatt	Why I Picked Up a Gun One woman was raped and beaten by men who actually are commissioned police officers. I was that woman.
CIO May 1, 2003 Ben Worthen	Database Cracks Murder Case Now, searching a set of prints against the 45 million on file in the FBI's national database takes only a couple of minutes. The system helped crack a case that had been closed for 45 years.
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