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No. 123: Bountiful Harvest Separates Wheat From Chaff in Environmentalism

As I begin this review, Earth Day has just passed. As usual, the airwaves and newspaper were filled with outlandish statements by self-proclaimed environmentalists that unless we immediately and drastically change our ways, there will be misery for all living things on Earth. Naive adults and impressionable children received an increased dose of the technophobic hysteria that is now a regular part of their lives.

George Leef
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Obscenity for Fun or Salvation

This spring Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," devoted several segments to the obscene goings-on in a human sexualities class at the University of Kansas. Viewers were told how Prof. Dennis Dailey showed "highly explicit" material including nude images of little girls, said he understood how some could be pedophiles, held a "wheelchair sex day" in class, showed pornographic films, compared one photograph of a female's spread genitals to the Virgin Mary, and also made obscene gestures to students who demonstrated offense.

Jon Sanders

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Human Capital Contracts: An Attractive New Way to Pay for College

A report from the Cato Institute suggests an alternative method for paying for higher education. As the need for new methods of finance is growing with the rapidly rising costs of higher education, and as student loans are beset with defaulting and graduates dealing with the uncertainty over being able to make fixed loan payments, the report argues, human capital contracts should be an attractive alternative.

Jon Sanders
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