| CQ Researcher 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Are animal dissection and vivisection still necessary as teaching tools? | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas R. Lord, Pat Graham |
| Are computer models reliable tools for predicting climate trends?(from House Science Committee testimonies, March 6, 1996) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael C. MacCracken, Robert E. Davis |
| Are criminal sanctions more useful than civil remedies in dealing with insurance fraud? | News, opinion and commentary | Edward G. Feldman, Janet Bachman |
| Are pets a healthy link with nature?(pamphlet and book excerpts) | News, opinion and commentary | Paul Shepard |
| Are youth curfew laws constitutional? | News, opinion and commentary | Karl A. Racine |
| Attack on public schools: has the education "crisis" been overstated?(includes related articles about charter schools, the democratic dream of the common school, and vouchers) | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Clark |
| Child labor and sweatshops: Do U.S. consumers abet worker exploitation?(includes related articles on celebrity endorsers, children working on US farms, and the debate over reforming OSHA) | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Clark |
| Civic journalism; can press reforms revitalize democracy?(includes related articles on Wisconsin and The Virginian-Pilot newspaper) | News, opinion and commentary | Chris Conte |
| Do anti-panhandling ordinances violate the civil rights of homeless people? | News, opinion and commentary | Robert W. Sweet, Gregory P. Kane |
| Do copyright holders need new protections in the digital era?(from Clinton Administration report and The Washington Times, Nov. 14, 1995) | News, opinion and commentary | James Boyle |
| Does gambling lead to increased crime? | News, opinion and commentary | L. Scott Harshbarger, Jeremy D. Margolis |
| Does the Americans with Disabilities Act impose unreasonable burdens on business?(from The Washingtonian, Aug 1995, and Los Angeles Times, Jul 21, 1995) | News, opinion and commentary | Andrew Ferguson, Edward B. Bennett III |
| Does the Brady bill violate states' rights?(handgun control) | News, opinion and commentary | |
| Does year-round education improve academic performance? | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Ballinger |
| Do political consultants harm the electoral process? | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Levine, Joseph R. Cerrell |
| Fighting over animal rights: Has public support for the movement peaked?(includes related articles on animal rights in court, xenotransplantation, and where laboratory animals come from) | News, opinion and commentary | David Masci |
| Has the credit card industry made credit too easily available to teenagers and college students?(from March 10, 1994 House subcommittee testimonies) | News, opinion and commentary | Ken McEldowney |
| Has the US Air Force dispelled longstanding claims of a government coverup of a UFO incident in Roswell, N.M., in 1947? | News, opinion and commentary | Don Berliner |
| Have campaign finance laws improved the political process? | News, opinion and commentary | Ann McBride, Edward H. Crane III |
| Is "chemical castration" an acceptable way to treat sex offenders? | News, opinion and commentary | Douglas J. Besharov, Andrew Vachss |
| Is political correctness a major problem at American colleges and universities? | News, opinion and commentary | John K. Wilson, Peter A. Thiel |
| Is privatization the best way to solve the nation's highway congestion problems? | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Samuel, William D. Fay |
| Is sexual harassment a problem for men as well as women? | News, opinion and commentary | Harsh Luthar, Anthony Townsend, Shelly M. Mandell |
| Is the reported decline in public education quality largely a myth? | News, opinion and commentary | David C. Berliner, Bruce J. Biddle, Lawrence Stedman |
| Is the role of First Lady outmoded? | News, opinion and commentary | Germaine Greer, Zofia Smardz |
| Parental rights; are new laws needed to empower parents? | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas J. Billitteri |
| Should a "prudent layperson" definition of a medical emergency be adopted by all health-care plans? | News, opinion and commentary | Richard V. Aghababian |
| Should Britain abolish the monarchy? | News, opinion and commentary | H.B. Brooks-Baker, C.L. Cameron |
| Should child abuse be prosecuted decades after an alleged incident occurred? | News, opinion and commentary | Elizabeth F. Loftus, Paula L. Boland, Sherry A. Quirk |
| Should congress enact a federal income tax cut for D.C. residents?(Washington, D.C.) | News, opinion and commentary | James L. Prost, Stephen S. Fuller |
| Should Congress enact legislation barring restrictions on communications between doctors and patients? | News, opinion and commentary | Greg Ganske |
| Should Congress make it easier for non-Indians to adopt Indian children? | News, opinion and commentary | Daniel K. Inouye, Gerald B.H. Solomon |
| Should Congress repeal a superfund provision that can hold a company responsible for cleanup of hazardous waste dumped legally before superfund was enacted in 1980? | News, opinion and commentary | John F. Spisak, Carol Browner |
| Should divorce laws be changed to make marriages more difficult to dissolve? | News, opinion and commentary | Glenda Riley |
| Should English be the official language of the United States? (two opposing views presented) | News, opinion and commentary | Mauro E. Mujica, Robert A. Underwood |
| Should individuals with HIV be discharged from the military? | News, opinion and commentary | Robert K. Dornan |
| Should journalists abandon their traditional detachment and become more actively involved in their communities?(excerpts from Quill, Nov-Dec 1995, and the 1996 book 'Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press') | News, opinion and commentary | Jay Rosen, Michael G. Gartner |
| Should professional athletes be allowed to participate in the Olympic games? | News, opinion and commentary | William C. Rhoden |
| Should schools teach moral values? | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas Lickona, David R. Carlin Jr. |
| Should the CIA be abolished? | News, opinion and commentary | R. James Woolsey, Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| Should the courts reduce their role in school desegregation? | News, opinion and commentary | David J. Armor, Gary Orfield |
| Should the Endangered Species Act be re-enacted without major changes? | News, opinion and commentary | Rodger Schlickeiesen, W. Henson Moore |
| Should the federal government try to stimulate volunteerism through its national service program? | News, opinion and commentary | Harris Wofford, John P. Walters |
| Should the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) be expanded to cover the entire Western Hemisphere? | News, opinion and commentary | Ira S. Shapiro, Pater A. DeFazio |
| Should the United States crack down on companies doing business with overseas sweatshops? | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Kernaghan, Lucy Martinez-Mont |
| Should the U.S. replace the income tax system with a national sales tax? (two opposing views presented) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard K. Armey, Richard G. Lugar |
| Should the U.S. support Taiwan's membership in international organizations? | News, opinion and commentary | A. Doak Barnett |
| Should U.S. foreign aid programs place greater emphasis on curbing world population growth? | News, opinion and commentary | Alan K. Simpson, Sheldon Richman |
| Was the University of California Board of Regents justified in ending affirmative action preferences for admissions? | News, opinion and commentary | Pete Wilson, Roy T. Brophy |
| Welfare, work and the states; can states move welfare recipients into jobs?(includes related articles) | News, opinion and commentary | Christopher Conte |
| Will private sector unions begin to grow again? | News, opinion and commentary | Leo Troy, Charles B. Craver |
| Will the new federal welfare law hurt needy children? | News, opinion and commentary | Robert Rector, Mark E. Courtney |
| Would expanding NATO to include central and East European countries threaten Russia? | News, opinion and commentary | William J. Perry, Karl-Heinz Kamp |
| Would the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act undercut established legal protections for children?(from Family Policy, Aug 1996, and the American Civil Liberties Union) | News, opinion and commentary | Cathleen A. Cleaver |
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