1) Health and low level radiation turning good news into bad by news by B. Wolfe and L.R. Wallis, send for reprint to B. Wolfe, General Electric Co., 175 Curtner Ave., San Jose, CA 95125.
2) P.C. Roberts, "A Nobel Prize that has liberals squirming," Business Week, 11/24/86, discusses the liberals' anger at the award of the prize to free marketeer J.M. Buchanan. The attempts to belittle his work ("Self-interest in politics earns a Nobel Prize," Science, 11/21/86) also make good (and gleeful) reading.
3) Electric Power Deregulation and the Public Interest, ed. J.C.
Moorehouse (516pp., softb. $14.95, Pacific Research Inst., 177 Post St., San Francisco, CA 94108) makes a good companion volume to Unnatural Monopolies [AtE Aug 86], but could do with more attention inter-utility competition by "wheeling" and separately owned distribution networks buying power from the lowest bidder.
4) How much interesting information can you get on a single page? Try K. Zinsmeister's "Baby Haters International," Reason, Jan. 87, and take stock of Paul Lysenko Ehrlich's harvest: governments ought to step in where the privately desired childbearing exceeds the "socially desired" level, says the World Bank; the US Natl. Acad. Sci. makes a case for "policies that go beyond voluntary family planning," some Chinese obstetricians are under orders to see that newborns do not survive if they are second children; India forcibly sterilized thousands of her citizens; and more...
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Vol. 14, No. 5
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 14, No. 5 Date: November 30, 2004 08:35 AM Title: Wimps
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