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  • Virus Myth, Part 1

    One moonlit night in 1983, a biochemist named Kary Mullis was driving along a California mountain road when he had an aha! experience akin to Newton's with the apple and Archimedes' in the bathtub. Mullis immediately pulled off the road, awakened...

  • China's Great Population Plight, Part 1

    Imagine a world where men outnumber women, where the vast surplus of sexually frustrated males could threaten the very fabric of society, and where females are a rare and almost dying breed. This might sound like some far-fetched science fiction novel...

  • Raptured, Part I: Darbyism and the Middle East

    For millennia, Christians have believed that the end times are near. Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus, precluded by the rise of the Antichrist and the seven years of tribulation, which--thanks to the rapture the Bible talks about--true believers...

  • THE GREAT SOCIAL SECURITY DEBATE, PART I

    President Bush has made Social Security reform (a/k/a "partial privatization") the centerpiece of his second-term domestic agenda. But the bewildering array of "facts," theories, plans and proposals makes it increasingly difficult...

  • NGO'S: THE HAPLESS HELPERS

    It sounded like a heinous injustice. The evil World Bank was foisting a dam-building project on unwilling citizens in Uganda, causing environmental destruction and the forcible relocation of nearby villagers. What was worse, the people being moved wouldn't...

  • Flu Season Part II: Much Ado about Nothing?

    For the first time in years, Americans are not afraid of terror attacks. That would be good news, if it weren't for the simple fact that the al- Qaeda scare has been (temporarily) outmatched by another: The flu. A nationwide panic has erupted since...

  • Privatizing Social Security

    According to a recent poll, those young Americans who believe in flying saucers outnumber those who think Social Security will be there for them in their old age, by about two to one. While they may or may not be right about UFOs, the kids' skepticism...

  • WHY IRAN IS NEXT

    In recent weeks, the news media has been overflowing with reports on the increasing tension between the U.S. and Iran, supposedly based on the Islamic country's unwillingness to drop its nuclear programs. A clear-cut case of another tyrannical nation...

  • Puritan Past, Puritan Future? Reader Feedback part 2

    We need more folks like you to speak out! Congratulations on a wonderful essay. (Hal T.) ***************************************** Was the Spanish flu that killed over 500,000 Americans in 1917 the result of two flu viruses being recombined by nature...

  • READER FEEDBACK: CHILDREN IN HANDCUFFS

    Thanks for bringing the 2 girls in NYC up. That is very wrong. But, the 5-year-old is another case. What could they do? The teachers are not allowed to discipline the kids, and the parents won't. The Assistant Principal had her hands tied, as did...

  • Reader Feedback "The Sex Offender Dilemma"

    Due to a flood of letters on the topic, this is only a selection of reader emails handpicked by our WWNK editors. Some of the letters have been edited for length. ******************************* Granted, there is a world of difference, (regardless of...

  • EARLY TEST FOR ALZHEIMER'S

    A treacherous disease that creeps up on its victims so gradually that it can go unnoticed for years, Alzheimer's is not easy to detect and diagnose. But now science has made what seems like a breakthrough in the early diagnosis of the condition, using...

  • Google Revisited

    About a year and a half ago, we ran a two-part article in these pages, called "Does Google Want to Rule the World?" (Answer: Not consciously, but they may end up doing it anyway, by default.) Since then, Google has solidified its place as one...

  • The New Miracle Sweeteners, Part 1

    If you have been a longtime subscriber to What We Now Know , you may remember us ranting against artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (a.k.a. NutraSweet) and sucralose (a.k.a. Splenda) as potential mass killers of mankind. While we wrote about aspartame...

  • Reader Feedback 06/28/2005

    This week, because of a lack of space, we're going to focus on reader feedback on last week's article "Libraries--Last Bastions of Freedom". Here are some selected comments. "I generally support President Bush, but in the case of...
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