Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Fast Company August 8, 2011 Dan Macsai	Trade Phones For Cash With EcoATM How an unmanned kiosk dispenses cash for old electronics and turns a profit.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Luke O'Brien	Green Sports Alliance: Go Green Or Go Home Sports teams finally find something to agree on.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Anya Kamenetz	Esther Duflo Bribes India's Poor To Health Good ideas that work aren't always as "nice" as we'd like.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Brian Parsonnet's "Ice Bear" Makes Air Conditioning More Energy Efficient Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Brian Parsonnet led the development of the Ice Bear, a device that is attached to commercial air conditioners and uses ice to store energy, making cooling more efficient and easing the burden on the electric grid.
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Proponents Optimistic That Interoperable Public Safety Network Bill Will Pass Heather Hogsett, director of the National Governors Association's homeland security and public safety committee, said legislation has a better chance of passing this year.
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated.
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Cyber-Espionage Against U.S. Firms More Widespread than Previously Thought That foreign adversaries are using computer network vulnerabilities to steal military data from the U.S. government and its contractors is well known and hardly surprising.
Chemistry World August 9, 2011 Andrew Turley	DuPont halts sale of wayward herbicide Chemical major DuPont has stopped selling its herbicide Imprelis less than a year after receiving US approval following complaints it has damaged and killed trees.
Chemistry World August 9, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Ligand could trap actinides from spent nuclear fuel Is the problem of highly radioactive nuclear waste on the verge of being solved?
Chemistry World August 5, 2011 Rebecca Trager	EPA in political tug of war over environment Democrats call the current House of Representatives the most 'anti-environment' in history.
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