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Debunking Theories of a Terrorist Power Grab
You know all those doom-and-gloomers who get up before Congress and testify about how terrorists are going to attack America’s electric grid, sending blackouts toppling across the country like...
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Book Seeks True Justice for Crime Victims
Susan Herman has nothing against victim-offender dialogue or other restorative-justice techniques. She just wants to start a broader — much, much broader — national conversation about true justice for...
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Why Victims Face the Criminals Who Hurt Them
Diana Owen knows the standard crime-victim revenge fantasy, the one in which you confront, even hurt or kill, the criminal who preyed on you. A sly grin crosses her face as the self-proclaimed “badass”...
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In 1995, painter Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein — whose nom d’art was “Hilgos” — was placed in a Chicago-area nursing home because of steadily worsening dementia. Lawrence Lazarus, then a Chicago...
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Your Brain: A User’s Guide
In light of recent research into the workings of the mind, personal responsibility is threatening to become a casualty of science, and free will is looking like a frighteningly fragile construct. Our...
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Next They’ll Tell Us Germs Can Dance
Anyone who’s ever visited a male collegiate dorm room can testify to the amazing properties of bacteria, but not even the guys in Animal House could have seen this one coming: Bacteria can stand up —...
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Cohen’s Nonprofit Helps Hospitals Go Green
Gary Cohen is not a doctor or a nurse. He has never worked in a hospital, and, he admits, he thinks hospitals are kind of scary, in part because both of his parents died in one. But when the...
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Turning Failed Commercial Properties Into Parks
In the language of urbanism, “greenfields” usually means rural land at the metropolitan edge, where suburbia metastasizes. “Brownfields” are former industrial sites that could be redeveloped once they...
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Convict Commodification
Like corn and computers, convicts have become commodities in America, produced en masse in concentrated locations. But America hasn’t always produced bumper crops of inmates, sociologist Bruce Western...
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College Guys Will Remember the Pretty Ones
From the “Studies That Should Surprise No One” file: A new study in Applied Cognitive Psychology found that college-aged men were more likely to remember whether a woman showed sexual interest in them...
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California’s Delta Water Blues
“Complaints are everywhere heard that the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties.” — James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 Gilbert Cosio stands with his feet spread, one foot...
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The History and Frightening Future of Forests
The United Nations has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests, an interestingly ambiguous title that can be read as either celebratory or cautionary. Our review of recent forest-related...
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The Gadgets Among Us
The editorial on computer gadgetry by John Mecklin (“The Gadget in the Gray Flannel Suit,” November-December 2010) was particularly precious. I LOL’d at the comment from The Onion: “New Social...
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Companies Meeting Corporate Responsibility With Sincerity
No company is perfect, but we’ve found four examples — Patagonia, Honest Tea, The Timberland Company and Seventh Generation Inc. — of companies that share their corporate social responsibility...
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The Physics of Terror
Last summer, physicist Aaron Clauset was telling a group of undergraduates who were touring the Santa Fe Institute about the unexpected mathematical symmetries he had found while studying global...
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