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Policy Review articles from November 1997
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from November 1997
The profit motive for high-tech healing. (profile of Medtronic Inc.)
November 1, 1997... Anyone who has a friend or family member with ParkinsonAEs disease knows what a truly horrible condition it can be. It is a degenerative disorder usually accompanied by uncontrollable shaking, rigid limbs, and slow movement. An estimated 1.5...
Wichita's medical missionaries. (low or no-cost medical services; Good Samaritan Clinic, Wichita, Kansas)
November 1, 1997... Government bureaucrats sometimes treat the nationAEs health-care system the way the fictitious staff of TVAEs ER treats its patients: Every ailment is met with the frantic and costly remedies of the emergency room. The latest example of...
Antidotes to pop culture poison.
November 1, 1997... Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones were asked to sing their hit song "LetAEs Spend the Night Together" on the Ed Sullivan Show. Mr. Sullivan, however, asked them to modify the words to a more family-appropriate version: "LetAEs Spend Some Time...
Volunteer firehouses up in smoke.
November 1, 1997... "We cherish our citizen volunteers," said President Clinton at the Philadelphia summit on volunteerism in April. "Citizen service is the story of our more perfect union."
DonAEt tell that to Bob Chaney. A professional firefighter for Baltimore...
Fifty ways to cut your taxes.
November 1, 1997... Defenders of the recent tax-cut deal between President Clinton and the GOP contend that Republicans could have achieved nothing better with their slim majority in Congress and a Democrat occupying the White House. Implicit in this defense is the...
The moral basis of a free society.(Cover Story)
November 1, 1997... When the government of China tells people they can read state-run newspapers but not print and distribute Bibles, imprisoning and torturing dissenters; or have one child but not two, forcing women to have abortions; or watch state-run television...
See Dick flunk. (phonics-based instruction)
November 1, 1997... The evidence is overwhelming that kids with reading problems need phonics-based instruction. Why arenAEt educators getting the message?
Inside a National Institutes of Health (NIH) reading lab, 11-year-old Alexis stumbles to decipher a short...
The commonwealth of freedom.
November 1, 1997... Americans are estranged from their government; a lost tradition of community-building offers a way back.
Government was once the instrument of a free citizenry. "We the People created government," Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, "not the...
The gender refs. (equal opportunity for female collegiate athletes)
November 1, 1997... Federal Regulators want equal opportunity for female collegiate athletes. Do they care whether colleges have to cut menAEs teams to achieve it?
When the menAEs varsity swimming and diving team at the University of California at Los Angeles...
Adios, bilingual ed. (opposition to bilingual education)
November 1, 1997... CaliforniaAEs Hispanic parents are demanding real English instruction for their children.
When American public schools first adopted "bilingual" instruction nearly 30 years ago, its purpose was to ease thousands of non-English-speaking...
Miracle on I-35. (free trade and international agreements)
November 1, 1997... Think free trade is hollowing out the economy? Take a look at Kansas City, just one of the nationAEs newest export powerhouses.
Free trade and the international agreements that promote it have been very good for Americans. In 1997, U.S....
Virtual veritas. (establishing the Electronic Conservative Clearinghouse Library)
November 1, 1997... The nationAEs libraries do a poor job of preserving conservative truths. We need to start our own.
Of all the great American institutions that deserve the support and affection of conservatives, lending libraries are among the most essential....
Government's first watchdog. (General Accounting Offices's John R. McCarl and fiscal responsibility)
November 1, 1997... On June 27, 1921, President Warren Harding nominated John Raymond McCarl to direct the newly created federal General Accounting Office (GAO). According to statute, McCarlAEs responsibility as our nationAEs first comptroller general was to keep...