Back Talk: Paul Offit
Christine Smallwood : Mental Health
A doctor defends scientific research against the potentially fatal misperceptions of the anti-vaccine movement.
Health, Science & Environment
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2008
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Progressive Fusion
James Gustave Speth : Environment
Environmentalists must learn to join forces with other agents of change.
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The Wrong Path to Conservation
Mark Dowie : Environment
Dangling cargo to win local support, Western enviros have instead aroused ire in Papua New Guinea.
2007
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The Stuff of Heartbreak
Doug Henwood : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplation.
2004
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New Power for 'Old Europe'
Mark Schapiro : Regulations & Regulatory Agencies
The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.
2001
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PR for the 'Book of Life'
An international group of profit-minded biotech advocates has been pushing error-laden predictions re genomes in mainstream exhibit halls, books and articles.
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Governing the Genome
Which genetic modifications should be encouraged and which outlawed?
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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