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An Apple a Day
“Who are those guys?”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That's the question that keeps popping up…
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Corporate PR Must Reach People as Consumers and Citizens
PR pros have long sought to link their efforts to clients’ return on investment. The planned campaign for the Aluminum Association, detailed in this magazine…
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A Clear Mistake
The Clear Skies Initiative, President Bush's big environmental bill targeting power plant emissions, appears to be stalled in Congress. In an effort to…
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The Green Machine
Click on pdf link above to obtain full version of article Twenty EU member and accession states labour under a cadre…
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
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Russian Revolution
On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />December 2, 2003, Andrei Illarionov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, stunned green activists…
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The Air Gets Cleaner, While Environmental Politics Gets Dirtier
The way the administration’s environmental critics tell it, you can’t see your hand in front of your face anymore because of all the pollution…
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Virtually Extinct
It seems that virtually every news organ in the English language has carried the story of new scientific claims published in Nature magazine that…
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Finding Nemo, Losing Fear
Many thousands of children and their parents were entranced this year by Pixar's excellent movie Finding Nemo, whose combination of inventiveness, comedy, and emotion…
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An Improved Climate
Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin. This year, they claim 2003 was the third-hottest…
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Resentment, fear drive U.N. quest for control
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a "hands off" approach—may be numbered.
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This Christmas, a Red-Green Split?
Europeans often talk about the Red-Green coalition, the coming together of socialists and environmentalists to save the world and its people from the…
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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked
It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…
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The Green Inquisitor
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The Parade of Imaginary Horribles
I once had a gruff college professor who spiced his lectures with the phrase “imaginary horribles.” I think of him whenever I read…
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Russia Isn’t Bluffing on Kyoto
In late October, Vladimir Putin shocked the environmental movement the world over by announcing doubts over whether <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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Conko and Prakash Guest Editorial from BioScience News and Advocate
The use of bioengineering technology for the development of new plant varieties has been endorsed by dozens of scientific bodies, has increased crop…
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Buy Nothing Day: Sustainable Consumption at the Cost of Sustained Consumption
Black Friday. The term evokes images of crowded malls and families rushing to get through Christmas shopping lists. The Friday after Thanksgiving is…
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New Rules May Give Diesel Vehicles a Needed Boost
The vast majority of Americans are satisfied with cars and sport-utility vehicles powered by gasoline. In contrast to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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Wishful Anti-spam Thinking
Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass new anti-spam legislation. The effort is understandable: The increasingly apparent downside of an Internet on which you…
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The International Green Agenda
Environmental groups were stunned when the cash-strapped Turner Founda-tion—which gave about $28 million to green causes in 2002—announced recently that it would temporarily suspend all…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
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Rescuing Free Trade From the Bureaucrats & Special Interests
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the aftermath of the…
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Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
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Who Should Have Air Supremacy?
The Clean Air Act (CAA), perhaps the federal government's most powerful environmental tool, concedes in its very first section, “air pollution control at…
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Baptists and Bootleggers
If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the coalition of the Baptists and the bootleggers has to be one of the oddest. In the early part…
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Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman – McCain Climate Stewardship Act
Denounced by its critics as an energy-rationing scheme, and hailed by its supporters as a measure to counteract the dire consequences of global warming, the…
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United Nations Day of Shame
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…
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Lewis Letter to DOE
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Sam Kazman: Too Tough on SUVs, Too Soft on Mini-Cars
Official traffic statistics are one of the last things that you'd expect to find distorted by political correctness. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,…
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Russia Could Sink Kyoto — and McCain-Lieberman
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Climate Stewardship Act (S. 139), introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and…
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CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. Cited in Novak Column
To read Robert Novak’s October 16 column, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Russia Buries Kyoto ‘Consensus’
The most momentous event in the politics of climate change since <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's decision to shelve the Kyoto…
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Vox Populi and Public Policy
“How can you tell whether a whale is a mammal or a fish?” a teacher asks her third-grade class. “Take a vote?” pipes…
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McCain’s Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy
Who does Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) think he is fooling? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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The Poor Suffer as UN Wages War on Science
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less…
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Adrift on the Seas of Knowledge
Senators John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) are deeply concerned about the issue of global climate change. So much so that…
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Genetically Modified Foods Are Nothing New
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Children as Policy Pawns
Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children. Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…
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Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference,…
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Are Small Particles Such a Big Problem?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, small particles in the air pose the greatest threat that it or any other regulatory agency is…
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Running Away From Safety
Remember Jim Fixx? Not many people do, and that's a shame. Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week. He…
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Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims
Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West…
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Voting the Easy Way
The Ninth Circuit's controversial decision to delay the California recall election, likely to be overturned today, is just the latest in a series of…
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Are We All “Damn Fools”?
The accomplished British humorous songwriters <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Flanders and Swann (Donald Swann put JRR Tolkien's various Middle Earth…
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D.C. Air Quality Levels
Another Washington summer is over, as is another season of Washington smog. While this summer's air quality was typical of recent years, many residents…
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Fixing the Game
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Environmental Scientists Must Stop Crying Wolf
There is a crisis emerging in the scientific community. The ideals of science are being sacrificed to the god of political expediency. Environmental scientists are…
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CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
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‘I’m Mo Green!’
CANCUN, Mexico — “I’m Mo Green!” bellowed the casino owner, suggesting that his uninvited but insistent suitor Michael Corleone appreciate their relative stations in the…
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Precaution without Principle
The European Parliament voted earlier this summer to change the way it regulates gene-splicing, or genetic modification (GM) technology, possibly opening the way…
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EPA Uses Superfund Tax to Target the Innocent
Advocates claim that the Superfund tax is a moral imperative because they say it's based on the “polluter pays” principle. This tax is really a…
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EU Over-REACH
The latest mutation of the Precautionary Principle–which would heavily regulate, if not prohibit, any product, technology or activity that is in any way incomplete–is…
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Son et Lumière Over French Heat Wave
With over 10,000 deaths ascribed in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />France to the recent European heat wave, the finger-pointing has…
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Greenhouse Hot Air
“Can This Man Save the World?” (Aug. 11, p. 54) first assumes there is a problem associated with greenhouse gas emissions that…
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Down the Tube
The first elected Mayor of England's capital city, Ken Livingstone, has seen his transportation policy descend into chaos in recent weeks. Londoners regularly…
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ABOGADO GIGANTE!
In the October 2000 stretch run for the presidency, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Representatives Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)…
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Bush administration’s rule changes on the Clean Air Act (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: The Bush administration’s rule changes on the Clean Air Act’s new source review program should be judged in context (news article, Aug.
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Europe’s REACH Exceeds Its Scientific Grasp
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which holds…
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Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a United Nations Environment Programme Convention, which bans or regulates industrial chemicals and pesticides. The…
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Europe ‘Reaches’ for Disaster
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which…
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FT Summer School – A Risky Weapon in the Corporate Armoury-
“Derivatives have become associated with recklessness following several high-profile bankruptcies, but they can be an effective way of managing risk,” says Christopher Culp.In…
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The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners…
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A Bright Idea: Deregulate
The massive blackout that shut off lights along the East coast, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Midwest and Canada need not…
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Environmentalists for Enron
CERES, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, is terribly concerned about corporate governance. Worried by the recent corporate scandals, this coalition of environmental groups and…
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Is Big Bad?: SUV Critics Hold Consumers in Contempt
Reprinted with permission from the August/September issue of Reason magazine. High and Mighty: SUVs: The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got…
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The Future’s Electric: Beware Bad Energy Policy.
Whenever I needed to buy an obscure book as a student at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Newcastle Royal Grammar School…
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Brussels’ Bad Science Will Cost the World Dear
Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging. Numerous analyses…
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Pots and Kettles
“The Administration's political interference with science has led to misleading statements by the President, inaccurate responses to Congress, altered web sites, suppressed agency…
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Time to Put Auntie Beeb Out to Grass
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Activists More to Fear than Pesticides
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists…
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Analysis: Running Out of Energy
Last week saw some extraordinary scenes in the Senate as this year's energy bill died, only for last year's bill to rise, vampire-like,…
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Developing World’s Moral Voice Absent in Bilateral Agreements (Letter to the Editor)
Sir, Daniel Griswold (“Bilateral deals are no threat to global trade”, July 27) raised several valid points in the defence of bilateral trade agreements. However,…
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Regulations Are Hidden Tax on Energy
It’s a good thing Congress is increasing the amount of money it spends to help the poor pay for energy, because these same legislators are…
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Los Beneficios de la Biotecnologa
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The Brundtland Legacy
The five-year tenure of Gro Harlem Brundtland as head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just come to an end. She leaves behind…
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The Benefits of Biotech
Click pdf link above for full text of article Ever since the publication of Rachel Carson’s…
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Thank You, Pew!
You've got to hand it to the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Pew Center on Global Climate…
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Misfires in Biotech Trenches
Agricultural biotechnology suddenly is headline news—the focus of a vitriolic trans-Atlantic trade squabble, and even the subject of pointed public comments by President…
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Killing Energy: Beware the “Soft Kyoto” Strategy
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Here’s the Plan
On Thursday Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans released the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) strategic plan. According to…
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Much Ado About Nothing?
The last year has been a bad one for future AIDS victims. The U.N. AIDS conference in Barcelona was an activist circus. U.S. Secretary…
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West Nile Virus: A Public Health Crisis?
Full article available in pdf format Public health officials can only hope that this summer doesn't see a repeat of last year's…
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Pollsters: A New Danger in Baghdad
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Recent Research Suggests…
There has been a great deal of ballyhoo this week over the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require food products…
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Taxing Times in California: The Depths to which his California has Fallen.
Stories of taxpayer abuse at the hands of the IRS were once so common as to be cliché, but Gil Hyatt recently discovered that…
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How to Cripple an Economy
Energy, as the late Julian Simon said, is the “master resource.” It enables virtually all the activities that make modern life possible. It…
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‘Spammers’ Ignoring Anti-Spam Legislation
Dear Editor: If you look closely at the spam filling your inbox, you might notice one or two…
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Tackling Junk Science
Environmental activists and their allies in the media, like The New York Times, are up in arms over the Bush Administration’s latest outbreak of good…
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Junking Junk Science
The term “junk science” has been one of the most powerful tools in ensuring that political and legal decisions are taken based on…
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Rules May Save Fuel but Won’t Save Lives
When it comes to saving fuel, federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations are expensive, cumbersome and insidiously deadly. They force new technologies…
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Manager’s Journal: What Media Monopolies?
AN ODD-BALL COLLECTION of special interests are patting themselves on the back this week after convincing the House of Representatives to scale back…
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Biotech Woes…and the Culprits
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.
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Wish Fulfillment: The EU Constitution Lays Down NGOs’ Ideals in Stone
When former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing was first minted as President of the European Constitutional Convention, he suggested that he might be <?xml:namespace…
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
The British newspaper The Independent warns us of a serious threat to our aesthetic appreciation of the world. “Global warming may…
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Stop This Today! Unsolicited E-mail vs. Unsolicited Legislation
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Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
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Protecting the Environment (Letter to the Editor)
SIR – Your article about the resignation of Christine Todd Whitman as head of America’s Environmental Protection Agency suggests that the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s opposition…
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Biotech and Baby Food
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Warnings about one societal danger or another often portray children as the likeliest or…