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| Category: | Focus on Society | Published: | July 2012 |  | | When Reality Bites Back | | | | For the committed, creative collector, photography is a vanguard medium that provices myriad possibilities to understand our lives through the power of images. | | |
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| Category: | Medical Research | Published: | July 2012 | | | What Insane Asylums Taught Us | | Paul Patterson | | Some of today's more adventurous clinical investigations are . . . Providing intriguing results on the effects of fever on autism, and even proposing vaccination for schizophrenia and severe depression. | | |
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| Category: | Ecology | Published: | July 2012 | | | Tour de Trees: Caring for Nature One (Bicycle) Mile at a Time | | M. Janet Bornancin | | If you are breathing, thank a tree==and remember that healthy trees are rooted in research. | | |
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| Category: | Public Policy | Published: | July 2012 | | | The President "Bams" the Economy on Oil | | Richard L. Gordon | | The very policy initiatives that the Obama Administration wishes to expand have failed in the past. Mandates and subsidies to produce renewable energy have been central to legislation for 40 years, as have attempts to impose fuel efficiency on the market. | | |
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| Category: | The Great Recession | Published: | July 2012 | | | The Government, not Underregulated Markets, Spurred the Economic Meltdown | | Patric H. Hendershott , Kevin Villani | | Market discipline cannot be said to have failed during the subprime lending bubble, because it did not exist; market forces had been replaced by regulatory oversight. | | |
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| Category: | Medicine & Health | Published: | July 2012 | | | The FDA Condemns You to Death | | Jonathan W. Emord | | The war on cancer has become a war dominated by friendly fire, where the medical troops fighting the battle more often than not kill the civilian patients they are supposed to protect. | | |
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| Category: | Religion | Published: | July 2012 | | | Should Mormons Be Feared Because of their Beliefs? | | Tricia Erickson | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has secretive oaths, covenants, and pledges to death penalties as part of its Temple rituals. | | |
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| Category: | The Workplace | Published: | July 2012 | | | Seeking the Elusive Credibility Factor | | James Kouzes , Barry Posner | | People run down. Energy runs out. Talent gets stale. Organizations get stuck. Challenges continue and threats mount, and the old ways of doing things do not work anymore. | | |
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| Category: | Worldview | Published: | July 2012 | | | Refusing to be Preempted | | George F. Will | | If we Americans cultivate our inner lives and our moral selves as industriously and productively as we cultivate the material world around us, then perhaps we of all peoples can long endure. | | |
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| Category: | Religion | Published: | July 2012 | | | One Mother's Message to God | | Mary Lou Quinlan | | She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer. If it was important to me, it was important to Mom and, if it was important to Mom, into the God box it went. | | |
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| Category: | National Affairs | Published: | July 2012 | | | On the Defensive | | Murray Weidenbaum | | The challenge facing planners in the second decade of the 21st century is how, at a time of severe budgetary pressures, does the nation maintain the defense industry's innovative, managerial, and technological strength so vital to national security? | | |
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| Category: | Athletic Arena | Published: | July 2012 | | | No Hands No Feet No Limits | | Christine Belleris | | At recess, the nuns would ask, "He has no feet; so how can he run so fast?" So fast, in fact, that Tony Volpentest has been nominated for induction in the Olympic Hall of Fame. | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | July 2012 | | | Learning to Face Forward | | Michele Howe Clark | | If you want to know what your thoughts were yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to know what you future will be, look to your thoughts today. | | |
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| Category: | Literary Scene | Published: | July 2012 | | | Just Try Stealing First Base | | Cynthia Drew , Joan Golden | | Games can be taken away by bad plays, bad breaks, and bad calls. Losing is going to happen, but being better doesn't just mean being a better baseball player. | | |
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| Category: | Economics | Published: | July 2012 | | | Four Bucks a Gallon--Ouch! | | John P. Strelecky | | This is an issue that can be gotten under control and, for the sake of the economy, must be gotten under control. | | |
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| Category: | Political Landscape | Published: | July 2012 | | | Can Obama Be Beaten? | | James W. Thomson | | If Bill Clinton were to update his sly slogan for the 2012 election, it would sound something like, "It's the race card this time, stupid." | | |
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| Category: | The World Today | Published: | July 2012 | | | Blasphemy's Assault on Free Speech | | Paul Marshall | | America's Founders, who had broken with an old order that was rife with religious persecution and warfare, forbade laws impeding free exercise of religion, abridging freedom of speech, or infringing freedom of the press. We today must do likewise. | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | July 2012 | | | Aging in Place | | Emma Dickison | | The vast majority of senior citizens prefer to age in the comfort of their homes as opposed to an assisted care facility or nursing home. | | |
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