Rumors of the death of the brick-and-mortar library have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, the digital age has transformed the nature of data storage. But the public library will be a chief agent in providing access to digital information.
Energy and the Environment
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State of the Debate: Dolly and Madison
The cloning debate has highlighted moral questions that are likely only to become even more difficult as biotechnology advances: What should be the line between permissible and impermissible genetic interventions? Is our bedrock belief in human equality about to break down?
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Children in the Digital Age
There’s trouble in Cyber City, and pornography is the least of it.
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Seeing Through Computers
Computer literacy used to mean knowing how computers worked; now it means just knowing how to work with them. What we need are new critical reading skills for the emerging electronic culture.
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Computer Clubhouses in the Inner City: Access Is Not Enough
A new kind of learning community shows how children from any neighborhood can become “technologically fluent.”
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: The Software Industry as a Model for Tomorrow’s Jobs
Some high-tech firms are redefining the relationship between employer and employee.
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Power Play
The deregulation of the electric utility industry has been billed as a boon for consumers, because competition is supposed to lower prices. But utility companies are using the opportunity to pass the cost of abandoned nuclear reactors to customers. Big business may save, but consumers will pay more and the environment may suffer.Â
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Global Warming and the Big Shill
Because Vice President Al Gore is an ardent environmentalist, the Clinton White House has placed a high priority on getting an international global warming treaty. One member of the National Security Council is assigned to oversee the treaty that the United States and other industrialized nations agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. And […]
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Deregulation Run Riot
After winning control of Congress in November 1994, the Republican leadership, working closely with business lobbyists and policy groups, launched an ambitious effort to roll back a century of reform legislation-from the food and drug laws of the Progressive Era to the New Deal’s Social Security Act to the workplace and environmental regulation of the […]
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Paralysis by Analysis: How Conservatives Plan to Kill Popular Regulation
Simply revoking laws that protect clean water, air, or food wouldn’t be popular, so Congress is passing procedural changes that sound neutral but bias the outcome in favor of corporate interests.
