Vol. 38 No. 9, February 2007
Index
- Attack Ads Are Good for You!(Letter to the editor)
- Lay Off the Fatties.
- Welcome to Niche Nation.
- Correction.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- No pictures, please: speed camera vigilantes.
- Shaq attack: SWAT teams with star power.
- Antisocial studies: civil rights in Britain.
- Quotes.
- Supersized drivers: does fat cause global warming?
- The Kyoto poll: sanitation beats warming.
- Death clock: secondhand smoke hype.
- Snap, crackle, poison? G.M. rice scare.
- Tax man of steel: dumping on anti-dumping duties.
- A court found Pitchfork Records owner Michael Cohen not guilty of selling a bootleg CD, but he still can't get around 600 CDs seized by police back.
- Also in Great Britain, government officials say hospitals are too efficient.
- In Saudi Arabia, the provincial government of Makkah has banned the sale of cats and dogs.
- Merchtem, Belgium, has banned the use of French in schools.
- Muddy rules: when can you curse on TV.
- Police in Treovis, England, have warned Gordon MacKillop that he could be charged under the Protection From Harassment Act.
- Scottish police investigated and a prosecutor cautioned soccer player Artur Boruc for allegedly making the sign of the cross during a game between the Celtics, Boruc's team, and the Rangers.
- Security guards at the U.S. Air Force Academy's Air Academy High School handcuffed and detained three cheerleaders before a football game.
- Three NYPD officers have pleaded not guilty to breaking into a Brooklyn massage parlor, ripping out a surveillance camera, and stealing a videotape.
- Sim pickings: real taxes on virtual worlds.
- Universal v. universal: copyrights and viral marketing.
- Where taxes are quickest.
- In search of the average American.
- Peace on the border: why anti-immigration conservatives fell flat in 2006.
- The fan fiction phenomena: what Faust, Hamlet, and Xena the Warrior Princess have in common.
- Smile, you're on the telescreen: universal surveillance meets universal exhibitionism.
- Divided we stand: what to expect from the long-awaited, much-anticipated return of gridlock.
- Pot clubs in peril: are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA?
- After the Damascus spring: Syrians search for freedom online.
- Quotations from Chairman Milton: more than three decades of wisdom from the late champion of liberty, culled from the pages of reason.
- We the living dead: the convoluted politics of zombie cinema.
- The National Mall goes kitsch: America's cluttered backyard shows just how hard it is for Congress to say "no.".
- Our right to death: how medical breakthroughs challenge easy answers about suicide.
- Realism, indignation, and American foreign policy: a radical and a neoconservative change their political stripes.
- The politics of pants: it was consumers, not marketers, that made jeans a symbol of youthful revolt.
- A chilling tale of global warming.