Reason

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Articles in Oct 2002 issue of Reason

• Party poopers: anti-rave legislation. Act of 2002 - Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy RAVE
  by Jacob Sullum
• History's dustbin: recycling cutbacks - Citings - Brief Article
  by Jeremy Lott
• Freedom for safety: an old trade—and a useless one - privacy and freedom swapped for security and safety following September 11 terrorists attacks
  by Nick Gillespie
• Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go bankrupt - investor Ron Perelman
  by Jeremy Lott
• Sources - Websites with suggestions for replacements for World Trade Center - Brief Article
• I spy: nosy neighbours - Citings - Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or Operation T1PS program
  by Brian Doherty
• Face the facts: facial recognition technology's troubled past—and troubling future
  by David Kopel
• Performance anxiety: the tragedy of Asian success - 'Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White' - Book Review
  by Jeremy Lott
• Stephen Laing bought a cabin on five wooded acres near Leyden, Massachusetts - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Balance sheet - current laws and cases
  by Jeff A. Taylor
• The forever war: how long can an emergency last? - war on terrorism
  by Jacob Sullum
• No go logo - Artifact - logos for Information Awareness Office and the Patent and Trademark Office - Brief Article
  by Jesse Walker
• Life after 9/11 - Editor's Note - Editorial
• The 3,000 delegates attending the U.N. World Food Summit, dedicated to fighting global hunger - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Taxing smokes - Data - cigarette tax - Brief Article
  by Jacob Sullum
• Closing the books: open government after 9/11 - information collected from private industry could be kept secret from public under spcial privilege of Department of Homeland Security
  by Jeffrey Benner
• The challenges of charter schools
  by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
• 'The greatest historical work in our language
• Residents of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, would be wise to register their bicycles - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Privacy test: medical records and the police - Citings - judge requisitions medical information from women's health clinic
  by Sara Rimensnyder
• Fixing foreign policy: how the U.S. should wage the war on terror
  by Ted Galen Carpenter
• Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Norway's Labor Market Administration has been looking for a few good women—10 to be exact - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Trashy dream houses: home and garbage - Citings - Dan Phillips plans to build homes of odd designs from recycled materials
  by Sara Rimensnyder
• You've lost your way, baby: how organized feminism has made itself irrelevant - Ms. magazine
  by Catherine Seipp
• Correction - Correction Notice
• Christine Vetter is looking at five years in prison and a $250,000 fine - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Bashing lawyers - Soundbite - Court TV host Catherine Crier's new book - Interview
  by Sara Rimensnyder
• Biology vs. the Blank Slate: evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works
  by Ronald Bailey
• Illegal education? Intimidating homeschoolers - Citings
  by Brian Doherty
• Henri Dunoyer, mayor of the post resort town of La Grand-Motte in Southern France, has ordered police to stop people leaving the beach in swimwear for an odor check - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Making a killing in business: when crime pays, there will be plenty of criminals - Columns
  by Mike Lynch
• Hidden country: the secret family tree of country music - Culture and Reviews - Book Review
  by Damon W. Root
• Persistent protesters: slamming Noriega's alma mater - Citings - School of the Americas, renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - Brief Article
  by Jeremy Lott
• An Iranian court has barred Mohammad Khordadian from leaving Iran for 10 years - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• One nation, many gods: vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state - Columns
  by Cathy Young
• Bitch Goddess: Ann Coulter's perverse appeal
  by Sara Rimensnyder
• Conventional wisdom: municipal money pits - Citings - economic aspects of convention centers
  by John Pike
• The Kelowna Heat, a Canadian teenage girls' softball team, had everything it needed to play at a tournament in Spokane, Washington—everything except government-issued photo IDS - Brickbats - Brief Article
  by Charles Oliver
• Laughter in the ruins: what hasn't changed since 9/11 - Rant
  by Jesse Walker
• Dangerous thinkers: 20th-century philosophers' love affair with totalitarianism - 'The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics' - Book Review
  by Mark Goldblatt