Science and Health

Weird Science Weird Science

My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.

Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Marijuana Made Easy Marijuana Made Easy

For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Cynthia Cotts

Prescription: Protest Prescription: Protest

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Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Neil Shulman MD

Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate

The single-payer system, it was said, Has faults that go beyond the fact it's Red: If any faceless bureaucrat decreed That surgery the doctor says you need

Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains

It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon

Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor

Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.

Jul 1, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller

The Shame of our Nursing Homes The Shame of our Nursing Homes

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

More Beds, More Money More Beds, More Money

Beverly Enterprises controls more than 60,000 nursing-home beds, more than any other company worldwide.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

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