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A Land Time Forgot: The North American Prints of Karl Bodmer
Category: USA Yesterday Published: September 2003
The collaboration of a German prince and a Swiss-born artist produced what is perhaps the most magnificent--and accurate--series of pictures depicting early America to be found anywhere.
 
Congress Should Not Repeal the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Adam C. Pritchard
Category: Law & Justice Published: September 2003
Despite being tagged the "Corporate License to Lie Act" by critics, the law "strikes a balance between the goal of deterrence and the cost that securities fraud class actions impose on investors."
 
Demonizing Drugmakers: The Political Assault on the Pharmaceutical Industry Doug Bandow
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2003
Drug industry critics have gotten the issue almost entirely wrong. Their insistence on crude gov't intervention to lower drug prices, rather than dynamic market-based innovations to improve overall health, risks killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
 
Edward Hopper's America: Where Past and Present Coexist Uneasily Sylvia Yount
Category: Museums Today Published: September 2003
"A leading chronicler of the American scene between the World War, [the artist] depicted certain truths about our national life that continue to resonate for viewers today."
 
Edward Weston: Pictorialist Pioneer
Category: Focus on America Published: September 2003
The photographer "previsualized in the ground glass of his camera a new ideal in the form of the absolute real."
 
From Picasso to Pollock: Classics of Modern Art Tracey Bashkoff
Category: Museums Today Published: September 2003
Highlighting the aesthetic vanguard from Cubism through Abstract Exhibitionism, this wide-ranging exhibition features works by some of the last century's most influential artists.
 
Giving Kids a Fighting Chance Paul Stanley
Category: Education Published: September 2003
By educating children on ways in which to escape abduction, we teach them how to be their own rescuers.
 
Going Back to Houston Wayne M. Barrett
Category: Athletic Arena Published: September 2003
Like so many of America's sports-hungry cities, Houston, Tex., saw its longtime National Football League team move to another region of the country, only to have it replaced by another franchise.
 
John Charles Fremont and the Exploration of the American West Gerald F. Kreyche
Category: USA Yesterday Published: September 2003
He "opened its vistas not only to ordinary, grateful pioneers, but to all who savored this country's geographical largesse."
 
Middle East Peace Plan Looks to Be a Road Map to Nowhere Aaron Hoffman
Category: Worldview Published: September 2003
"As long as Israelis and Palestinians fear that cooperating with one another places their physical survival, political independence, and/or tenure in office at risk," the peace process cannot produce its desired result.
 
The Collateral Psychological Damage of War Ralph Hyatt
Category: Psychology Published: September 2003
The horrors of armed conflict and battle often leave lasting scars on the psyches of military personnel as well as the civilian population at large.
 
The Myths and Truths of Family Abduction Nancy B. Hammer
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2003
Though the public believes the incidences of these kidnappings are infrequent, they rank as the second-largest category of missing children in the U.S.
 
Vanishing Youngsters: No Easy Answers Heather Hammer
Category: Life in America Published: September 2003
". . . It is vital that parents, law enforcement agents, and policymakers understand the complexities of the missing child problem in order to respond to the different types of these episodes appropriately."
 
Western Investment Can Help Conquer Terrorism Rudian Arafeh
Category: Economics Published: September 2003
"An improved living standard is a potent antidote to the discontent that frequently fuels fanatacism."