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How Precaution Kills: The Demise of DDT and the Resurgence of Malaria
Submitted by Roger Bate on 9.25.2001
Most of our preoccupations arise from the modern paradox: while our longevity, health and environment has never been better, we spend more time than ever before worrying about all three. Classic concerns are the various scares—alar, saccharine, breast implants, passive smoking, nuclear power, pesticide residues, children’s vaccines—and more recently, mobile phones, genetically modified foods and global warming. In some of these cases, the concern was completely invalid, in others the scare was blown out of all proportion.
California's Electricity Crisis
Submitted on 9.1.2001
PRI has long been a leader in supplying California and the Nation with information on energy policy. In fact, our 1986 book Electric Power: Deregulation and the Public Interest predicted many aspects of the current crisis.
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