Winter 2009

Just Another Prescription

In November 2008, voters in the state of Washington joined neighboring Oregon in passing a "death with dignity" law. The original law, a decade old, has transformed the treatment of the terminally ill.

The source: “Ten Years of ‘Death with Dignity’” by Courtney S. Campbell, in The New Atlantis, Fall ­2008.


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Showdown at Dry Gulch

Geoff Manaugh examines a "historically important, well-timed, and memorable addition to the growing library of books about water and the West."

The Research Boomerang

Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.

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