Search on:
201201
|
| |
| Category: | The World Today | Published: | January 2012 |  | | World Monuments' Watchdogs | | Bonnie Burnham | | This year's Watch entails 67 sites in 41 countries & territories. These locales vividly illustrate the ever-more pressing need to create a balance between heritage concerns & the social, economic, & environmental interests of communities around the world. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | January 2012 | | | The Truth About these Tough Guys | | Eric Granof | | ". . . The vast majority of bail agents are just average people trying to run a small business and make an honest living." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Business & Finance | Published: | January 2012 | | | Retirement: It Is a Scary New World Out There | | Zaim Hajdari | | "The present economic environment [is much] tougher than the last generation's. . . . Today's investment scenario is . . . About perseverance and tenacity." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Astronomy | Published: | January 2012 | | | Twice in a Blue Moon | | Judith Braffman-Miller | | "A much smaller second moon may have twirled around our planet long ago, before it crashed into the moon that we now know and love." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Labor Relations | Published: | January 2012 | | | Restoring a Fundamental Freedom | | Mark Mix | | ". . . All U.S. workers in all 50 states should be granted the full freedom of association--which includes the freedom not to associate--in the area of union membership." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Medicine & Health | Published: | January 2012 | | | Rescued by an Umbilical Cord | | Mallory Leone | | From new life to a life hanging by a thread, these little heroes saved their siblings before they even could crawl. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Political Landscape | Published: | January 2012 | | | ObamaCare Remains on the March | | Diana Klebanow | | What may be a ray of sunshine for patients likely will burden a number of small companies with additional compliance rules and paperwork to the point of bankruptcy. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | International Affairs | Published: | January 2012 | | | Lessons--and Warnings--from the Libyan Intervention | | John Samples | | It is one thing to have a President who is reluctant to acknowledge American exceptionalism, but quite another to turn over our nation's ability to make war to the United Nations. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Science & Technology | Published: | January 2012 | | | Is Renewable Energy Looking at Nine Miles of Rough Road? | | Craig Shields | | There exists a dwindling spiral brought on by ruthlessness and greed, fueled by society's tendency toward apathy and numbness. Only time--and lots of it--will tell which energy sectors shall prevail. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Economics | Published: | January 2012 | | | If the Invisible Hand of the Free Market Is Dead, Has Capitalism Been Buried Along with It? | | Gerald E. Marsh | | ". . . The 'invisible hand' does not exist, and it is time that this hoary belief is replaced by something better. . . ." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | American Thought | Published: | January 2012 | | | Confusion at the Top | | Michael Mukasey | | Does the Obama Administration even understand the Constitution--or the Bill of Rights--when it comes to executive power and the War on Terror? | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Life in America | Published: | January 2012 | | | Child Sexual Abuse's Second Shame | | Nick Bryant | | "The reality is that many perpetrators are not shady men in dirty, threadbare trench coats living in seedy hotels, but are, in fact, pillars of our community." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | National Affairs | Published: | January 2012 | | | Another Government Scheme that Needs Fixing | | Michael Tanner | | ". . . Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme only because Charles Ponzi did not have a gun. [The system] never will go broke as long as the government can force people to pay more taxes and accept fewer benefits." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Worldview | Published: | January 2012 | | | A School for Girls | | Llewellyn D. Howell | | "The U.S. took the Taliban out of government, but failed to remove its members from society. Now, America has to face the challenge of stopping the Taliban from turning the clock back on women." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Infrastructure | Published: | January 2012 | | | A Crisis at the Tap | | Walter Lynch | | "It will take all sectors working together to ensure a safe, clean, and adequate water supply not just for future generations, but for our own as well." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Astronomy | Published: | January 2012 | | | A Trip to the Great Beyond | | | | As we mark the 50th anniversary of human space flight, it is a particularly timely moment to celebrate the enduring curiosity that drives humans to find new ways to explore our universe. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Education | Published: | January 2012 | | | A Guide to the Invisible Universe | | Scott M. Tyson | | All best about everything are off. . . . Everything you have learned regarding our understanding of the universe is wrong. | | |
Top Bottom Home
|
| Category: | Cinema | Published: | January 2012 | | | On the Road Again | | Wes D. Gehring | | ". . . However you choose to 'read' your road movie map, may all your film trips be enlightening." | | |
Top Bottom Home
|