Vol. 36 No. 4, August 2004
Index
- Battle of the bulge.
- "It's so simple, it's ridiculous".
- Traditional prejudices.
- Xtreme measures.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Silent suits: challenging secrecy ... in secret.
- Aiding and betting: online gambling crackdown.
- Cotton belt: trouble for farm subsidies.
- Judicial choice: Shariah comes to Canada.
- Quotes.
- Source.
- Brian Kentwell has been pounding livestock and wild animals to death with a hoe.
- Competition among retailers has pushed the price of beer too low, according to the government of Norway, which maintains some of the highest alcohol taxes in Europe.
- Extra credit: charge it to Uncle Sam!(Citings) (Brief Article)
- For years, those who work at the English National Opera have called each other "darling.".
- Many self-employed workers, especially young people, aren't paying into Japan's social security system because they don't think they'll get their money back.
- Police officials in Bel-Ridge, Missouri, say department officials are pressuring them to spend less time catching robbers and more time writing tickets.
- RFID roundup: trying to keep the chips down.
- When Daniel Clauson spotted a man apparently trying to jimmy the door of a neighboring building, he called the cops.
- When officials at Connecticut's York Correctional Facility learned that an inmate in a prison rehabilitative writing program had won a national writing award, they took swift action to recognize her achievement.
- Zimbabwe has sent armed policemen to close all the country's private schools and send the children home, on the grounds that their fees are too high.
- Balance sheet.
- Fat of the land: fighting obesity with pork.
- Not for lovers: banning same-sex contracts.
- Segregation forever?
- Space oddities: owning the heavens.
- Who's right?
- Watergate blowback: the White House's ongoing battle against post-Nixon sunshine laws.
- Taking science seriously: conservative dogma about sex roles ignores inconvenient realities.
- The wrong lesson: teaching college reporters to be meek.
- The war on fat: is the size of your butt the government's business?
- American slender: when did freedom become just another word for 10 pounds left to lose?
- Dr. Feelscared: drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain.
- John Perry Barlow 2.0: the Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body--and his politics.
- Try, beloved country: rumors of South Africa's decline are greatly exaggerated.
- "Real" "art": or "Mr. Grumpy goes to an art museum and comes out belaboring the obvious!".
- Chatroom revolutionaries: Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web.
- Historia Discordia meet Kerry Thornley, the second Oswald.
- Globalization Without Tears: an economist debates the NGOS.
- Invisible cities: the changing faces of Washington, D.C.
- Bare virtue.