At minimum, it's hard to contest the assertion that such laws haven't had any real impact. In fall Public Interest, New York University law professor James Jacobs is very politically incorrect as he contends that criminal law is a poor tool to remedy hate crimes and that laws aimed at combating hate may exacerbate social tensions. But the issue's most provocative piece is James Fallows' cover story, which argues that the stunning rise and fall of American dominance in the semiconductor industry has very much to do with government ineptitude and is not explained by the reasons used to rationalize many American industrial failures, notably shortsighted management, stubborn unions and obsession with the short term. November Atlantic Monthly is good on how doctors' confusion results in perhaps hundreds of thousands of unnecessary prostate cancer operations, and droll on a visit to the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, Calif., where one finds "grown men and women acting like children," including one unnamed Chicago businessman caught whining because Roy wasn't around to autograph his photo. Howard Stern takes umbrage to playing second-fiddle to Rush Limbaugh on Talkers Magazines list of top radio talk show hosts of all time. While probably premature in suggesting a turnaround, it's good on the tricky, at times ham-handed attempt to change the giant's fashion image among women. They'd have been better off using Chicago bureau chief John McCormick's insider's look at a possible (yes, yes, one has heard this before) comeback by Sears, Roebuck and Co. 1 Newsweek's cover story, on the "private lives" of animals, is marshmallow soft, and its focus on author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' new theories about those lives is late, though there's a cosmically fun photo of a dog eating popcorn. Do three Oregon brothers place their mom, who has Alzheimer's disease and needs 24-hour care, on welfare or do they watch their inheritance vanish?. An excellent October Health is devoted to tough questions of dealing with aging parents, using family profiles to highlight specific issues, such as family savings. It concedes their ambiguous history, including the inevitable harm to a targeted nation's poorest citizens, but concludes that they're better than bullets and napalm and that the UN will have to mete out tough-minded medicine more often in a post-Cold War world. Quickly: November Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists offers an issue about the complex matter of whether economic sanctions work against countries.
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