CQ Researcher 1998 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
AIDS Update. | News, opinion and commentary | ADRIEL BETTELHEIM |
Are "abstinence-only" sex-education programs good for teenagers? | News, opinion and commentary | Joe 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 commentary | Richard D. Klausner, Samel Epstein |
At issue: are baby boomers trying too hard to stay young? | News, opinion and commentary | Ronald Klatz, Robertson Davies |
At issue: is affirmative action still necessary?(The Black Middle Class) | News, opinion and commentary | Hilary Shelton, Gerald Reynalds |
At issue: is it fair to characterize Internal Revenue Service employees as abusive and poorly trained?(IRS Reform) | News, opinion and commentary | David Patnoe, Robert Tobias |
At Issue: Should Congress earmark research funds for specific diseases like Alzheimer's? (includes articles debating issue) | News, opinion and commentary | M. Marsel Mesulam, John E. Porter |
Child-care options. | News, opinion and commentary | Karen 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 commentary | Christopher 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 commentary | Jared 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 commentary | Frans B.M. De Waal, Stanton Peele, Richard DeGrandpre |
Does recycling make economic sense? (opposing views) | News, opinion and commentary | Jerry Taylor, Richard A. Denison, John F. Ruston |
Do government regulations improve the quality of child care? (pro and con views) | News, opinion and commentary | Gina Adams, Darcy Olsen |
Do the current attacks on federal judges for being too "activist" threaten judicial independence? | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas 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 commentary | Karen Lee Scrivo |
Drug Testing. | News, opinion and commentary | KATHY 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 commentary | Kathy Kock |
Foster care reform. | News, opinion and commentary | Rachel S. Cox |
Has economic development proved Malthus wrong? (Thomas Robert Malthus) | News, opinion and commentary | James P. Pinkerton, John F. Rohe |
Has the Clinton administration done a good job of promoting democracy in Asia? | News, opinion and commentary | Mike 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 commentary | Adrienne Mitchem, Karen Ignagni |
Human Rights. | News, opinion and commentary | KENNETH JOST |
Internet Privacy: Is more government regulation needed? | News, opinion and commentary | DAVID MASCI |
Is bilingual education losing support in the Hispanic community? | News, opinion and commentary | Jorge Amselle, Laura Ferreiro |
Is corporate philanthropy fair to shareholders? | News, opinion and commentary | Ben Cohen, Albert J. Dunlap |
Is the nation on the verge of a new period of inflation? (contrasting viewpoints)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | Edward Yardeni, Mark Zandi |
Is workplace drug-testing effective? | News, opinion and commentary | |
Journalism Under Fire. | News, opinion and commentary | KATHY KOCH |
Should a liberal arts education primarily entail the study of Western civilization?(opposing points of view) | News, opinion and commentary | Alvin J. Schmidt, Carol Geary Schneider |
Should all genetically engineered foods by labeled? | News, opinion and commentary | L. Val Giddings, Steven M. Druker |
Should Britain join the European Monetary Union? | News, opinion and commentary | John Palmer, Larry Elliott |
Should certain therapies be curtailed in the effort to crack down on nursing home fraud? | News, opinion and commentary | Stephen K. Spahr, Suzanne M. Weiss |
Should more foreign high-tech workers be allowed into the United States? (pro and con) | News, opinion and commentary | William T. Archey, Norman Matloff |
Should road building in the national forests be halted temporarily? | News, opinion and commentary | Michael P. Dombeck, Helen Chenoweth |
Should statistical sampling be used for census 2000? (pro and con views) | News, opinion and commentary | Carolyn B. Maloney, Dan Miller |
Should teachers encourage students to engage in political activism? | News, opinion and commentary | Bill Capowski, Kevin Pranis, Daniel J. Flynn |
Should the federal government continue to subsidize beach-replenishment efforts? | News, opinion and commentary | Howard Marlowe, Beth Millemann |
Should the federal government set privacy standards for the Internet? | News, opinion and commentary | DEIRDRE MULLIGAN, STEVEN J. COL |
Should the government limit how many hours truckers can drive consecutively and prescribe specified rest periods? | News, opinion and commentary | Greg Lebedev |
Should the legal drinking age be lowered to 18 or 19? | News, opinion and commentary | Ruth C. Engs, Charles A. Hurley |
Should the United States be more sensitive to Russia's concerns about NATO expansion? | News, opinion and commentary | Byron 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 commentary | S. 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 commentary | Michael C. Hudson, Morton A. Klein |
Should would-be journalists pursue undergraduate degrees in journalism? | News, opinion and commentary | Dean 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 commentary | Susan 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 commentary | Philip Seib |
U.S.-British relations: are the two allies growing apart? | News, opinion and commentary | Philip M. Seib |
U.S. - Russian relations. | News, opinion and commentary | |
What political status is best for Puerto Rico? | News, opinion and commentary | Leonides Diaz Urbina, Eduardo Bhatia Gautier, Luis Vega-Ramos, Fernando Martin-Garcia |
Will additional federal funding improve foster care? | News, opinion and commentary | Jess McDonald |
Will encouraging telecommuting decrease traffic congestion? | News, opinion and commentary | Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Jack M. Nilles |
Will privately invested retirement accounts relieve the financial squeeze facing the Social Security system? | News, opinion and commentary | Henry Aaron, Edward H. Crane |
Would constructing a low-level radioactive nuclear-waste dump near Sierra Blanca, Texas, constitute "environmental injustice"? | News, opinion and commentary | Olympia J. Snowe, Bill Addington |
Would realignment hurt the game of baseball? (teams switching leagues) | News, opinion and commentary | Jim Litke, Shirley Povich |
Would tighter gun control reduce school violence? | News, opinion and commentary | Tanya K. Metaksa, Carolyn McCarthy |
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