Unnatural Disasters
Published April 28, 2010
A hazard, wrote Bucknell University geographer Paul Susman, is “the interface between an extreme physical event and a vulnerable human population.”
Thoughts on the volcano.
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Poli Psy: A Poverty of Solutions
Published December 15, 2008
Vermont is about to push through another round of “child protective” sex-crimes legislation. These laws won’t protect kids. There is a way to do that — but it won’t grab any sexy headlines: attack child poverty.
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Poli Psy: “Newborn Tragedies”
Published August 30, 2006
In August, while the headlines reported the mounting deaths of already-born Lebanese and Israeli children, a bill to save American “children,” both “pre-born” and pregnant, moved toward passage. Senate bill 403, the Child Custody Protection Act, criminalizes the transport of a pregnant minor across state lines to get an abortion, if the transporter isn’t the [...]