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C.D.s and Other Things

By Gyorgy Scrinis and Peter Lyssiotis When the Compact Disc first emerged in the 1980s, it participated in the undermining of one of our most long-held assumptions. With the C.D., the whole distinction between Side A and Side B of the old vinyl

Dealing with unemployment: too little, too late

By Frank Enright "'All these years we've given our kids everything they've wanted. All of a sudden we felt like an insect that was going to get walked on — he hit the bottle. We fought, the kids got upset, I walked out with a black eye.' —

Dick Nichols

Dick Nichols Solidarity with the Sydney wharfies! With the intervention of industrial relations and transport minister Laurie Brereton into the Sydney wharf dispute, the grounds are being laid for an outcome that would not only make it very

Cancer down on the farm

By Peter Montague The United States is losing its war on cancer, according to a long article in the January 1994 Scientific American. The basic measure of success or failure — the age-adjusted cancer death rate — continues to climb slowly