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  • 06/2001: The Pulse

    Published June 1, 2001
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    Consumer-Driven Health Care Takes OffThe defined contribution approach is increasingly being called "consumer-driven," which shifts the focus away from employer payment and toward the role of the worker/patient.
  • There’s too little power in wind

    Published June 1, 2001
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    Federal and state government officials, "wind farm" developers, and renewable energy advocacy groups have for years touted windmills as an environmentally benign and economically acceptable way to produce electricity.
  • Education Industry News

    Published May 1, 2001
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    A sampling of education industry news from The Education Economy, a weekly publication of the market research firm Eduventures.com, which conducts research on the pre-K-12, post-secondary, corporate training, and consumer markets worldwide.
  • Bush Administration Stumbles

    Published April 1, 2001
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    Misgivings about President George W. Bush's ideas on health care are turning into alarm as the new administration unfolds.
  • 04/2001: The Pulse

    Published April 1, 2001
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    Small Business Groups Work DC BeatThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is busy in Washington, supporting association health plans, expanded MSAs, and full deductibility of premiums for the self-employed, according to Al Crenshaw in the
  • Global warming: Watson indulges in scare tactics . . . again

    Published March 1, 2001
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    In early January, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stepped up its campaign to coerce regulatory action from the United States by releasing the Summary for Policymakers from the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR).
  • Employers Unite to Tackle Medical Errors

    Published March 1, 2001
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    Medical errors are an important consumer issue ripe for pandering to those who use health care the most: our elder generation. The button on this one doesn’t get any hotter.
  • Timber giant and snowmobile groups sue over roadless plan

    Published March 1, 2001
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    Several snowmobile groups and a giant timber company sued the federal government in early January, seeking to overturn the controversial roadless forest initiative signed by then-President Bill Clinton the week before.
  • Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality: an interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer

    Published February 1, 2001
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    Dr. S. Fred Singer, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, has achieved great renown for pioneering research in atmospheric and space physics.
  • How Dropout Rates Hit the Radar Screen in California

    Published February 1, 2001
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    In June 1998, the California Department of Education issued a press release claiming California's dropout rate had fallen to 3.3 percent, a figure printed in more than 35 California daily newspapers.
  • Can Biotechnology Survive Bad Science, Media Hype, and Environmental Extremists?

    Published February 1, 2001
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    In August 1999, television viewers across the country tuned in to CBS Evening News heard correspondent Wyatt Andrews say, “This growing concern over biotechnology in the food chain is also reflected in a new study, the first field study to show that
  • Leaked IPCC report triggers false alarm

    Published December 1, 2000
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    Every five years, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives its assessment of the state of global warming science.
  • Recentered SAT Yields Apples and Oranges

    Published December 1, 2000
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    When the College Board artificially "recentered" SAT scores to 500 apiece for the verbal and math sections in 1995, it created a world of doubt about the reliability of its long-term data.
  • Environment and the 2000 election

    Published October 1, 2000
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    Ultimately, the importance of environment issues to the 2000 election may not be determined by “environmentalists” or more moderate conservationists—or even Democrats or Republicans.
  • Popular termite pesticide withdrawn from U.S. market

    Published October 1, 2000
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    Dow AgroSciences has reached an agreement with EPA to voluntarily withdraw from the U.S. residential market its chlorpyrifos products, including the popular pesticide Dursban, a treatment for termites.
  • News of Arctic warming nothing more than hot air

    Published October 1, 2000
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    The rhetoric is heating up out there. Item 1. Press Release, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 9, 2000, titled “Arctic temperatures warmest in last four centuries, study says.” Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century . . .
  • RAND Study Has Something for Everyone

    Published October 1, 2000
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    An analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results, released this summer by RAND researchers, touted optimistic conclusions about the effectiveness of several popular public school reform strategies.
  • The National Biological Service and Weasels

    Published October 1, 2000
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    “The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) was a charter member of endangered species lists for North America long before the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,” wrote Dean Biggins and Jerry Godbey for the National Biological Service’s 1995
  • National Assessment of Climate Change released

    Published August 1, 2000
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    America's airwaves and newsrooms were abuzz in mid-June with dire warnings of an imminent global warming apocalypse. Average U.S. temperatures "will probably rise 5-10 degrees F.
  • 05/2000 State Education Roundup

    Published May 1, 2000
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    California * District of Columbia * Illinois * Kentucky * Louisiana * Massachusetts Nevada * New Hampshire * New Jersey * Ohio * Oklahoma * Texas * Washington CALIFORNIA School Bond Initiative Fails California voters turned out on Super
  • Roads and roadless

    Published April 1, 2000
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    The drive to keep the American public out of public lands is picking up speed as the Clinton-Gore administration seeks ways to close off even more than the 60 million-plus acres already classified as roadless (see accompanying chart).
  • 10/1999 Legislative Update

    Published October 1, 1999
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    American Heritage Rivers Initiative In early July, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals turned down a lawsuit filed by Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) and four other House members against President Clinton’s AHRI, ruling the members do not have
  • Parental Freedom in the States and Nation

    Published June 1, 1999
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    Arizona On March 15 the Arizona House passed HB 2279, a bill that would provide “Parental Choice Grants” to low-income parents, on a vote of 31 to 27__the minimum number of votes needed for passage.
  • Junk Science or Sound? Five Questions to Ask

    Published April 1, 1999
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    In her February 17 address to the Independent Women’s Forum conference, “Scared Sick?

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