CQ Researcher 1998 - Abstracts

CQ Researcher 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
AIDS Update.News, opinion and commentaryADRIEL BETTELHEIM
Are "abstinence-only" sex-education programs good for teenagers?News, opinion and commentaryJoe S. McIlhaney Jr., Debra Haffner
Are antitrust enforcers right to be going after Microsoft? (pro and con views; excerpted from editorials in the New York Times, May 19, 1998, and the Rocky Mountain News, May 20, 1998)News, opinion and commentary 
Are we losing the war against cancer?News, opinion and commentaryRichard D. Klausner, Samel Epstein
At issue: are baby boomers trying too hard to stay young?News, opinion and commentaryRonald Klatz, Robertson Davies
At issue: is affirmative action still necessary?(The Black Middle Class)News, opinion and commentaryHilary Shelton, Gerald Reynalds
At issue: is it fair to characterize Internal Revenue Service employees as abusive and poorly trained?(IRS Reform)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Patnoe, Robert Tobias
At Issue: Should Congress earmark research funds for specific diseases like Alzheimer's? (includes articles debating issue)News, opinion and commentaryM. Marsel Mesulam, John E. Porter
Child-care options.News, opinion and commentaryKaren Lee Scrivo
Deflation fears: are falling prices a bigger threat than inflation? (includes related article on whether the economy is in a deflationary period, measuring prices)(chronological event list starting 1980s)News, opinion and commentaryChristopher Conte
Do American workers lack the necessary skills to qualify for better-paying jobs? (opposing viewpoints, includes excerpt from 'Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century)News, opinion and commentaryJared Bernstein, Richard W. Judy, Carol D'Amico
Does biology play a dominant role in determining human behavior? (opposing points of view) (excerpts from Chronicle of Higher Education, June 14, 1996, and Psychology Today, July/August 1995)News, opinion and commentaryFrans B.M. De Waal, Stanton Peele, Richard DeGrandpre
Does recycling make economic sense? (opposing views)News, opinion and commentaryJerry Taylor, Richard A. Denison, John F. Ruston
Do government regulations improve the quality of child care? (pro and con views)News, opinion and commentaryGina Adams, Darcy Olsen
Do the current attacks on federal judges for being too "activist" threaten judicial independence?News, opinion and commentaryThomas L. Jipping, Stephan O. Kline
Drinking on campus. (includes related articles on alcohol related deaths, chronology on anti-alcohol abuse movement, parent and teen communication)News, opinion and commentaryKaren Lee Scrivo
Drug Testing.News, opinion and commentaryKATHY KOCH
Food safety battle: organic vs. biotech. (includes related articles on trends toward organic foods in haute cuisine, media food reports, labelling genetically engineered foods, family farms in biotech age, and chronological list of events related to organic foods vs genetically engineered foods)News, opinion and commentaryKathy Kock
Foster care reform.News, opinion and commentaryRachel S. Cox
Has economic development proved Malthus wrong? (Thomas Robert Malthus)News, opinion and commentaryJames P. Pinkerton, John F. Rohe
Has the Clinton administration done a good job of promoting democracy in Asia?News, opinion and commentaryMike Jendrzejczyk, Dalpino Catharin E.
Has the rise of managed care hurt patients' rights?((two opposing views presented by the legislative counsel for Consumers Union and the president of the American Association of Health Plans))News, opinion and commentaryAdrienne Mitchem, Karen Ignagni
Human Rights.News, opinion and commentaryKENNETH JOST
Internet Privacy: Is more government regulation needed?News, opinion and commentaryDAVID MASCI
Is bilingual education losing support in the Hispanic community?News, opinion and commentaryJorge Amselle, Laura Ferreiro
Is corporate philanthropy fair to shareholders?News, opinion and commentaryBen Cohen, Albert J. Dunlap
Is the nation on the verge of a new period of inflation? (contrasting viewpoints)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryEdward Yardeni, Mark Zandi
Is workplace drug-testing effective?News, opinion and commentary 
Journalism Under Fire.News, opinion and commentaryKATHY KOCH
Should a liberal arts education primarily entail the study of Western civilization?(opposing points of view)News, opinion and commentaryAlvin J. Schmidt, Carol Geary Schneider
Should all genetically engineered foods by labeled?News, opinion and commentaryL. Val Giddings, Steven M. Druker
Should Britain join the European Monetary Union?News, opinion and commentaryJohn Palmer, Larry Elliott
Should certain therapies be curtailed in the effort to crack down on nursing home fraud?News, opinion and commentaryStephen K. Spahr, Suzanne M. Weiss
Should more foreign high-tech workers be allowed into the United States? (pro and con)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam T. Archey, Norman Matloff
Should road building in the national forests be halted temporarily?News, opinion and commentaryMichael P. Dombeck, Helen Chenoweth
Should statistical sampling be used for census 2000? (pro and con views)News, opinion and commentaryCarolyn B. Maloney, Dan Miller
Should teachers encourage students to engage in political activism?News, opinion and commentaryBill Capowski, Kevin Pranis, Daniel J. Flynn
Should the federal government continue to subsidize beach-replenishment efforts?News, opinion and commentaryHoward Marlowe, Beth Millemann
Should the federal government set privacy standards for the Internet?News, opinion and commentaryDEIRDRE MULLIGAN, STEVEN J. COL
Should the government limit how many hours truckers can drive consecutively and prescribe specified rest periods?News, opinion and commentaryGreg Lebedev
Should the legal drinking age be lowered to 18 or 19?News, opinion and commentaryRuth C. Engs, Charles A. Hurley
Should the United States be more sensitive to Russia's concerns about NATO expansion?News, opinion and commentaryByron L. Dorgan, Richard G. Lugar
Should the United States ease its sanctions against Iran to improve international access to Caspian Sea oil?News, opinion and commentaryS. Frederick Starr, Sam Brownback
Should the United States join the proposed International Criminal Court?News, opinion and commentary 
Should U.S. military assistance to Israel be reduced or eliminated?News, opinion and commentaryMichael C. Hudson, Morton A. Klein
Should would-be journalists pursue undergraduate degrees in journalism?News, opinion and commentaryDean Mills, Doug Ramsey
Student journalism: are First Amendment rights in danger? (includes related articles on rural Alabama and The Washington Post)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentarySusan Philips
The future of baseball: can it regain its old popularity? (includes related articles on baseball's racial integration and new stadiums)News, opinion and commentaryPhilip Seib
U.S.-British relations: are the two allies growing apart?News, opinion and commentaryPhilip M. Seib
U.S. - Russian relations.News, opinion and commentary 
What political status is best for Puerto Rico?News, opinion and commentaryLeonides Diaz Urbina, Eduardo Bhatia Gautier, Luis Vega-Ramos, Fernando Martin-Garcia
Will additional federal funding improve foster care?News, opinion and commentaryJess McDonald
Will encouraging telecommuting decrease traffic congestion?News, opinion and commentaryPatricia L. Mokhtarian, Jack M. Nilles
Will privately invested retirement accounts relieve the financial squeeze facing the Social Security system?News, opinion and commentaryHenry Aaron, Edward H. Crane
Would constructing a low-level radioactive nuclear-waste dump near Sierra Blanca, Texas, constitute "environmental injustice"?News, opinion and commentaryOlympia J. Snowe, Bill Addington
Would realignment hurt the game of baseball? (teams switching leagues)News, opinion and commentaryJim Litke, Shirley Povich
Would tighter gun control reduce school violence?News, opinion and commentaryTanya K. Metaksa, Carolyn McCarthy
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