Tuesday, February 01, 2005

articles 2/1

Contractor UK
RFID enables wallet-less drinkers

Boston Globe
Dummer Academy boarding school votes to change its name
"Rightly or wrongly, first impressions make a difference," says the headmaster. ''Certainly, when you go outside of the Boston region, the first impression sometimes doesn't convey what the school is all about."

USA Today
The bands that rock the cradle
Mothers make themselves heard with music that defies stereotypes

Wired
Go Nuclear, Young Man
Despite disasters like Three Mile Island, could nuclear power help stop global warming?
by Peter Schwartz & Spencer Reiss

Newsweek
Doubting Darwin
How did life, in its infinite complexity, come to be? A controversial new theory called 'intelligent design' asserts a supernatural agent was at work How could the eye, with all its complex parts working in concert, have arisen by a series of discrete steps?

NY Times
Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes
In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom.

The War Against World War IV
by Norman Podhoretz
The Bush Doctrine is under assault from every side; herewith, a critical guide to the critics. Does this mean the President is about to alter or reverse course?

Passion Does Not Equal Sanity
by Patrick Ruffini

NY Times
As Clinton Shifts Themes, Debate Arises on Her Motives

The Inventor of Modern Conservatism
Disraeli and us.
by David Gelernter

The Spinners, Casting Their Versions of the Vote in Iraq
By Howard Kurtz

The Querulous Party
The Left cavils and whines.
by Rich Lowry

Reuters
War Critics Paris, Berlin, Moscow Hail Iraq Vote

Has Iraq Weakened Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Far from tying us down, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and its aftermath have enlarged our strategic options.

Take Ownership
by Karl Zinsmeister
Social Security is old and broken--we can do much better. America should seize today's golden chance to fix the mess in our entitlement programs, and open a more prosperous era of personal ownership and choice.

Broad Ownership Needs Broad Taxpaying
By Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker

Be Not Afraid: Personal Accounts Are No Radical Idea
By Leon Aron, John H. Makin, Stephen Moore, and Jose Pinera
The really dangerous proposal is to leave Social Security alone, warns Stephen Moore. Two decades ago, notes Jose Pinera, other countries discovered how economically beneficial it is to build a retirement system on private savings rather than government promises. Even Russia beat us to personal retirement accounts, explains Leon Aron. As for claims that the costs of transitioning to the new system will torpedo the U.S. economy--relax, says John Makin.

A Nation of Citizen Investors
By James K. Glassman
The Ownership Society is the biggest political idea since the New Deal. For modest-income citizens in particular, the chance to build inheritable wealth could open doors to a whole new life.

Liberal and Conservative as Defined by the Media
by Chris Weinkopf
To the establishment press, "liberal" and "conservative" aren't so much ideological descriptions as moral ones.

American Enterprise Magazine
Michael Medved
Once a left-wing agitator, he took a right turn toward reality, reason, and religion. Now he's one of the leading analysts of politics and popular culture in America.

Stepping Out of the Tar Pit
by David Brooks

New Kind of Awe in the Mideast
by Youssef Ibrahim

For Bush, Validation in Iraq
by Peter Baker and Robin Wright

The Axis of Oil
by Irwin Stelzer

Exit to where?
by Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
The truth is, whether we like it or not, the United States cannot exit the global war waged against us by Islamofascist terrorists and their allies, any more than we can stop the world and get off it.

Freedom over cynicism
by Lawrence Kudlow
When you read Jordan's King Abdullah is taking steps to organize new elections in his country, with regional election districts that look a lot like Iraq's, you realize just how wrong my friend Peggy Noonan is when she writes President Bush's Inaugural speech "forgot context."

Kerry reminds voters why they rejected him
by David Limbaugh
Ted Kennedy's contemptible foreign policy speech deliberately timed just prior to the Iraqi election was bad enough.

Europe's Crisis
by Arthur Waldron
Might the continent's grave problems force a return to the values that it shares with America?

Doing Justice to the Bible
by Hillel Halkin
A secular literary scholar undertakes a faithful translation of the world's most translated book.

The Election and the Jewish Vote
by Jay Lefkowitz
Despite the uptick for George W. Bush, old communal habits show few signs of breaking.

New Yorker
A Man of the Shadows
Can Iyad Allawi hold Iraq together?

Beating a Dead Parrot
Why Iraq and Vietnam have nothing whatsoever in common.
By Christopher Hitchens

A Jolie Good Time
On "corporate social responsibility" and being stood up by Angelina.
by Bret Stephens

WSJ Editorial
Pride and Prejudice
"Hell no, we won't go" is the wrong liberal approach on Social Security reform.

NY Times
Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead
A year after a sweeping federal antispam law went into effect, there is more junk e-mail on the Internet than ever.

There Is No Tomorrow
by Bill Moyers

Hill Sells Out
by Dick Morris

I Like Mike
Michael Chertoff isn't the Neanderthal he's been made out to be.
By Phillip Carter

The Art of Energy
The future will not be painted in oil.
By Peter Huber and Mark Mills

LA Times
NIH to Ban Scientists From Deals With Drug Firms
Federal researchers will no longer be able to accept fees to consult for companies, officials say. Lucrative pacts have sparked ethics probes

GOP Sees Future in Black Churches
By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten
Social issues are binding the party with a group once firmly in the Democratic camp.

W. Times
A taste of the variety and breadth of neocon writing

Wired
Passenger Screening, Take 10
The Transportation Security Administration continues to push for a centralized passenger-screening system, this time using a combination of airline passenger information, terrorist watch lists and junk-mail databases.
by Ryan Singel.

USA Today
In iPod America, legions in tune
Apple's hip music player inspires fanatical devotion

AP
Oops: Government IT Blunders
Experts blame the U.S. government's tendency to reinvent the wheel, along with poor planning, rapid industry advances and the massive scope of billion-dollar projects for its track record of costly technology mistakes.

U2 Vertigo Tour Announces Immediate Sell-Outs in 16 Cities Worldwide, Reports Clear Channel Entertainment

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