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• Jail break: how smarter parole and probation can cut the nation's incarceration rate 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2004, Judge Steven Alm was assigned to the felony trial court for the island of Oahu, Hawaii....

  07/01/09 by Mark A.R. Kleiman · More from publication

• Algae soup: biofuels didn't work out so well the first time around. Will the next generation be better? 

  Think of it as a watercooler moment. Only the water in the balloon drum is not particularly cool. And its definitely not drinkable. For a start,...

  07/01/09 by Mark Rice-Oxley · More from publication

• From Kyoto to Copenhagen: this December, the world community will meet in Denmark to fashion a new climate change treaty. Deforestation is on the agenda. What are the odds of a deal? 

  Outside the Bella Center, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, stands a solitary wind turbine. Come early December, the machine is likely to become the...

  07/01/09 by David Adam · More from publication

• Introduction change in the air: past efforts to save tropical forests have largely failed. The world community, prompted by rising concerns about climate change, is finally considering a solution that might work 

  It is a well-known fact that China and the United States are the two most prolific emitters of carbon into the atmosphere, and hence the world's...

  07/01/09 by Roger D. Stone · More from publication

• Code red: how software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The central contention of Barack Obama's vision for health care reform is straightforward: that...

  07/01/09 by Phillip Longman · More from publication

• Cuba notwithstanding: could this summer's hurricanes blow away the trade embargo? 

  For half a century, the United States has pursued a policy of isolating Cuba in the vain hope that doing so would lead to the downfall of the...

  07/01/09 by Patrick C. Doherty · More from publication

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