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  Freedom of Expression and New York's "Quiet Zone" Law
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  A quiet zone normally refers to a railroad crossing where trains are prohibited from sounding their horns in order to decrease the noise level for nearby residents. However, in New York City the term "quiet zone" has been given new meaning. The New York City Parks Department recently...

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  Birth Control and Insurance
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that it will require all insurance companies to fully cover birth control expenses, eliminating copays and deductibles. This regulation, which goes into effect August 2012, also includes Plan B, or the "morning-after" pill....

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  Supreme Court Anthony Kennedy: The Most Important Person in America
  Topic by Sheila V Kumar

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy could be the one person who determines the outcome of this year’s hotly contested presidential election. Kennedy doesn’t have much traction in mainstream media as other hot button justices, but the vote he has cast in several landslide cases has...

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  Ai Weiwei, China and Human Rights
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  After three months in prison for refusing to pay his taxes, Ai Weiwei was released on bail, cautious of his next steps. Ai Weiwei, a world renown artist from China, is most famous for connecting his artwork to activist movements against the Chinese government. Weiwei's arrest is assumed to be...

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  The Right to Free Cell Phones
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The Telecommunications Act of 1996 created the Universal Service Fund, which was developed to help schools, libraries, rural and low-income citizens have access to communication services like landline telephones, cell phones and the internet. The law required that phone service providers give...

• Ethics of Using Research Knowledge about Physical Attractiveness Phenomenon (PAP) in Business Strategy
  Article by Gordon Patzer

  Physical attractiveness exerts significant impact throughout a person's life and throughout a country's population, a...

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  Transportation Tricks of the Illegal Drug Trade
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  In August of 2011, a U.K. border agency raided a luxury yacht, unearthing approximately 1.2 tons of cocaine in the most clever hiding places. Illegal drugs have established an international industry in the production and smuggling of narcotics, disguised in a number of ways to fight the...

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  Why We are Failing so Miserably and Regularly in Our Criminal Rehabilitation Efforts
  Article by Thomas (Tommy) Gnagey

  A criminal justice system based on punishment has no chance of working. A system based on prevention and rehabilitati...

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  In China, Japan, Taiwan Dispute Over Senkaku Islands, There Can Be No Winner
  Topic by Sebastian Murdock

  The recent and quickly growing dispute between China, Japan and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is a mess of convoluted legalities, with all three nations claiming total ownership of the uninhabited territory. Unless they can resolve their conflict peacefully, none will...

• How Scam Promoters are Using Fear and the Economy To Target You
  Article by Ike Devji
• Palliative Care: Achieving the Goals of Comfort and Dignity
  Article by Michael Gordon
• Two Faces of the Human Self-Preservation Instinct
  Article by Thomas (Tommy) Gnagey
• Intellectual Property Business Liabilities
  Article by Leon I Edelson
• Policing the Police
  Article by Joel Johnson
• The Ineffectiveness of Punishment
  Article by Merle E Ackeret
• More Mergers Increasing Number of Gigantic Law Firms
  Topic by Harvey K Black
• Where Does Common Sense Stand on 'Stand Your Ground' Laws?
  Topic by Nidhi Singh
• Anonymous: Hackers and Social Criticism
  Topic by Carrie Kirby