Articles from Reason (January 1, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
35 years ago in reason.		Brief article	130
A code is born: how catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history.	Doherty, Thomas		3625
Al Qaeda's forerunner.	Young, Michael	Interview	629
All the news that's unfit.		Brief article	270
Bad touch.	Sullum, Jacob	Brief article	409
Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving.	Moynihan, Michael C.		4533
Bloomberg's folly.	Doherty, Brian	Brief article	346
Bonds for babies: democrats discover the ownership society.	Weigel, David		1294
Book check.	Moynihan, Michael C.	Brief article	192
Britain's National Health Service has told Olive Beal it will take 18 months to get her the hearing aid she needs.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	26
Burn the rich: is it "apartheid" to pay for extra fire protection?	Welch, Matt	Brief article	652
Buzz kill.	Bailey, Ronald	Brief article	241
Clean cameras.	Weigel, David	Brief article	178
Defrocked eMinisters.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine	Brief article	219
Fifty years ago, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was not obscene.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	65
Firefighters in Braintree, Massachusetts, needed practice, so they drove to a vacant house, cut holes in the roof and the walls, and busted out the windows.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	56
Florida's Oswego High School suspended two students and forced about 50 others to turn their shirts inside out after they all wore anti-drunk driving T-shirts to school.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	65
Free to move.	Gillespie, Nick	Editorial	514
Gone Fishin'.	Gothie, Roy	Letter to the editor	360
Guests in the machine: guest worker programs mean legal inequality, tight government controls, and sometimes terrible abuses. They are also the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lot in life.	Howley, Kerry		6728
High risk.	Sullum, Jacob	Brief article	221
Home again.	Moynihan, Michael C.	Brief article	223
In Sampson County, North Carolina, officials at Hobbton High School refused to let students wear clothing with images of the American flag to mark the anniversary of 9/11.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	43
Inverview with the vampire expert: Eric Nuzum on censorship, panics, and bloodsucking fiends.	Weigel, David	Interview	988
Let's All Give Money to the Rich Man.	Penner, Larry	Letter to the editor	161
Michael Martin is only 7, but he's old enough to have been mistaken for a terrorist three times when he tried to board a plane.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	67
Pants police.	Balko, Radley	Brief article	235
Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, has banned students from hugging inside the building.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	42
Police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Donnie James White for violating the state's flag desecration law after several witnesses saw him dragging and stomping an American flag.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	50
Quotes.		Quotation	183
Reason news.		Brief article	71
Remembering 'the forgotten man'.	Gillespie, Nick	Interview	4243
Secrets of weight loss revealed! A little is easy, a lot is hard, and results may vary.	Sullum, Jacob	Book review	2941
Starvation diet.	Bailey, Ronald	Brief article	254
Swiss, please.	Walker, Jesse	Brief article	225
The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters.	Berryhill, Jerome; Henigson, Steve; Ingemi, Joseph; Basch, Peter	Letter to the editor	619
The Amateurs' hour: is the internet destroying our culture, or is it just annoying our snobs?	Harsanyi, David	Book review	1546
The Chinese media praised Jiang Yanyong when he broke government secrecy to reveal the true extent of Beijing's 2003 outbreak of SARS.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	70
The real untold story: what the Anna Nicole Smith case tells us about the legal system.	Alt, Robert		791
TSA-inspired art.	Gillespie, Nick	Brief article	181
Tuning Out the World.	Porter, Tom	Letter to the editor	88
Verification nation.	Howley, Kerry		311
Where's the beef? Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin.	Beato, Greg	Critical essay	1343