Alcohol Abuse

Price, Tom. "Alcohol Abuse: Can underage drinking be curbed?" CQ Researcher 8 June 2012. Americans are abusing alcohol less than in the past with one exception: college students, who drink more and binge drink more often than nonstudents of similar age. And alcohol continues to extract a high toll from those who abuse it at any age, killing 80,000 Americans a year and draining more than $220 billion from the economy. Although high school students drink and binge less, bingeing accounts for 90 percent of the alcohol consumed by teens who drink. Health experts also worry about the effects of new products, especially flavored alcoholic drinks, which seem to encourage young women and girls to drink and drink more. To combat alcohol abuse, many educational institutions, community organizations and government agencies are stepping up efforts to promote abstinence among the young and responsible drinking by adults who do imbibe. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books: We added several books recently on this topic, including Getting wasted : why college students drink too much and party so hard by Thomas Vander Ven (click linked title to check availability).

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking Seminar, Columbia Basin College, 28 Oct. 2011. 10:30 AM - Noon.

• Video part 1 (~20 mins.)
• Video Part 2 (Remainder)

Articles

Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." CQ Researcher 26 Mar. 2004.

EBSCOhost Search: human trafficking AND united states - 300+ full text articles

ProQuest Washington Newsstand Search: human trafficking - 100+ full text articles from Washington State newspapers

Books

Ebrary Search: human trafficking; includes titles such as:

• Newman, Edward. Trafficking in Humans : Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions. United Nations UP, 2008.
  
  
• Bales, Kevin. Understanding Global Slavery : A Reader. University of California Press, 2005.

Web

United States. Senate. Judiciary Committee. “The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act: Renewing the Commitment to Victims of Human Trafficking.” 14 Sep 2011. 10:00 AM. NOTE: Includes webcast of testimoney.

Google Search: human trafficking site:wa.gov (limited to past year) - Washington State government sites

Immigration - United States

Greenblatt, Alan. "Immigration Debate." CQ Researcher 1 Feb. 2008: 97-120.
(Updated: December 10, 2010)

Karaim, Reed. "America's Border Fence." CQ Researcher 19 Sep. 2008.
Will it stem the flow of illegal immigrants? America is rushing to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border by the end of the year. The fence — or wall, as critics along the border call it — is to include 370 miles of fencing intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and 300 miles of vehicle barriers. To speed construction, the Bush administration is using unprecedented authority granted by Congress to waive environmental-, historic- and cultural-protection laws. No one claims that building physical barriers along roughly a third of America's 2,000-mile Southern border will stem illegal immigration by itself, but supporters believe it is an essential first step in "securing the border," providing a critical line of defense against illegal migration, drug smugglers and even terrorists. Opponents see it as a multi-billion-dollar waste that will only shift illegal immigrants toward more dangerous and difficult routes into the country, while doing environmental, cultural and economic damage.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Facts.com:
Research Feature: Immigration Debate (Note the Key News Events links on the left)
Key Issue: Immigration

ProQuest:
(border) AND SU(immigra*) AND (fence*) (550+ articles)

EBSCOhost:
(immigra* OR alien*) AND illegal AND (employer* OR job* OR labor) AND united states
(Limited to Full Text and CBC Title Collection)
direct link to search results (450+ articles)

CBC Library Catalog: sample searches
“united states immigration” (200+ books as of Jan. 2011)

"open immigra" (9 books as of Jan 20, 2011)

LeMay, Michael C. U.S. Immigration: a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, 2003.

Gale Virtual Reference: immigration AND "United States"

Daily Life Online: immigration and united states

Opposing Views on the Web:
(Note: These are just a few examples.)

Anthony Gregory, "In Defense of Open Immigration", Freedom Daily, January 21, 2005.

Stephen Cox, "The Fallacy of Open Immigration," Liberty, October 1, 2006.

Steven A. Camarota, "Immigration Is Hurting the U.S. Worker," Americas Quarterly,Spring 2007.

Daniel T. Griswold, "Immigration Law Should Reflect Our Dynamic Labor Market", The Dallas Morning News, April 27, 2008.

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Income Disparities in America

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Income Inequality": Is the gap between rich and poor getting wider? A recent Census Bureau report brought a flurry of press attention to the widening gap between rich and poor. The gap in New York City is widening — and is now bigger than in India, noted the New York Daily News. Indeed, most analysts agree incomes of the very rich have been pulling away from all others in recent decades. The average pretax income for the bottom 90 percent of households is almost $900 below what it was in 1979, while the average pretax income for the top 1 percent is $700,000 higher. Having a wealthy class with very large amounts of disposable money is valuable — not harmful — to society, some argue. But others say the recent winner-take-all economy helped trigger the massive recession, leaving most people with stagnant incomes. Meanwhile, Republicans argue that Bush-era tax cuts on top earnings should be extended to stimulate the economy, while many Democrats back extensions only for lower earners. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost Search: SU income gap and GE united states

ProQuest Search: SU (income distribution) AND GEO(united states)

Who Speaks for Islam? - PHIL 131

"A Link TV original production that explores Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the religion." More information and viewing options at http://www.linktv.org/programs/who_islam.

Rich Benjamin on Race, Politics, and Society

Presentations: June 7, 2010

• "The Color of Tomorrow: Race and Racial Issues in the 21st Century," - 12:30 PM, HUB Congress Room
  
  
• "ObamaNation Versus Whitopia: The Social and Political Divides Threatening America." - 6:30 PM, HUB Main Stage

Written by Rich Benjamin:

• Searching for Whitopia : an improbable journey to the heart of white America. New York : Hyperion, 2009.


• Yes, I love taxes; Call me old-fashioned, but I think it's unpatriotic to demonize the funding of our government. USA TODAY. Apr 15, 2010. p. A.11


• What Tiger could learn from Obama. USA TODAY. Dec 11, 2009. p. A.21


• 2010 Census: Barack Obama Could Check "Black" Or "2 Races." McClatchy - Tribune Business News. Washington: Oct 7, 2009.


• Refugees of Diversity. American Prospect. Oct 2009. p. 18. "This article is adaptedfrom his first book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, published by Hyperion © 2009."


• King stood with, not above, the people. USA TODAY. Jan 12, 2007. p. A.11


• What King Really Dreamed. Written with Jamie Carmichael. Boston Globe. Jan 15, 2006. p. K.11

On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Whitopia - a 4.28 minute video in regular and HD formats.

U.S. Census

Billitteri, Thomas J. Census controversy: should undocumented immigrants be counted? CQ Researcher, May 14, 2010. Now under way, the 2010 census has sparked bitter partisanship. Some conservative Republicans, for example, have criticized the census as an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy; others warn that census participation is important for maintaining GOP power, since the count is used to apportion congressional seats and allocate federal money to cities and states. Liberal Democrats have been more supportive of census procedures, which for the first time will count same-sex couples. To raise response rates, the Census Bureau sent every household the same brief 10-question form and dropped use of the “long form” — a lengthy questionnaire seeking data on housing, transportation, education and income. The long form has been replaced by a separate, ongoing monthly survey that will provide timelier data, but from a smaller sample of households. Researchers generally hail the change but say it will cause some problems, at least initially.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles


CQ Researcher

Jost, Kenneth. Census 2000: What is the best way to get an accurate count? CQ Researcher May 1, 1998.

Gavin, Jennifer. Redistricting: Are minority groups fairly represented in Congress? CQ Researcher Feb. 16, 2001.

EBSCOhost - subject term searches:

census AND immigrant*

census AND United States

demographic surveys AND United States

apportionment AND United States

ProQuest

SUB(aliens) AND(census of population)

SUB(census of population)

SUB(apportionment) AND SUB(census of population)

Ebooks

Choldin, Harvey M.Looking for the Last Percent: the Controversy Over Census Undercounts. Rutgers University Press, 1994. [NetLibrary]

Web

United States. Bureau of the Census.Census Bureau Home Page.

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

Books

List of Books on Display at the CBC Library

Ebooks
Search ebrary: Subject: Asian Americans (more than 20 ebooks)

NetLibrary:
The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts/Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 2109
by Leonard, George

Online Reference
Encyclopedia Britannica Online:
Asian Americans
Spotlight: Asian Values

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Keyword (asian americans) LIMITed to ("Topic overview")

Daily Life Online : Essays about the domestic, economic, religious, and other aspects of people's daily lives, ancient to modern, around the world. You can browse by subject, time period, and region. Sample articles:
Culture and Customs of China > Food and Clothing

Music Database
Naxos Music Library: Information about a few sample music pieces were listed below. You can search for more using the keyword search box once you logged inside the database. A CBC library password is required to listen to the music.

• Chinese: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
  Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
• Traditional Music from Korea [Booklet]
• Japanese Masterpieces for the Shakuhachi [Booklet]

CQ Researcher Report
Asian Americans 1991

Local Events

• CBC Library Display
• Asian American Awareness Month Presentations
  Richland Pulic Library: 1:50 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Websites Dedicated to this Heritage Month
Library of Congress Site
National Endowment for the Humanities Site
Smithsonian Institution
--Teaching Resources
National Park Service

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Teen Pregnancy & Sex Education

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Teen Pregnancy: Does comprehensive sex-education reduce pregnancies?" CQ Researcher. March 26, 2010. After dropping steeply for a decade-and-a-half, America's teen birth rate began edging upwards in the past few years. Analysts aren't sure whether the trend will last and say there are numerous causes. A significant factor, however, is a drop-off in contraceptive use that began in the early 2000s, as better HIV/AIDS treatments diminished fear of the disease. In 2009, the Obama administration ended the Bush administration policy of federally funding only sex-education programs with abstinence until marriage as the primary focus. Instead, most funding will now go to programs that have been demonstrated in large, randomized trials to be effective for pregnancy prevention. Critics say the plan will unfairly eliminate funding for abstinence programs, which they contend have not been adequately evaluated by researchers and are the only ones that consistently teach the value of committed relationships.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Friedman, Jane. "Teen sex: Do abstinence-only programs discourage teen sex?" CQ Researcher. 16 Sept. 2005.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost - subject term searches:

teenage pregnancy AND prevention AND sex instruction

teenage pregnancy AND prevention AND sexual abstinence

(sex instruction or sex education) and united states

ProQuest - subject term searches:

teenage pregnancy AND sex education AND prevention programs

(sex education) AND (united states)

Books

CBC Library Catalog: kw, phr=sex education or kw, phr=sex instruction

ebrary: "sex education" OR "sex instruction"

Reference

"Sex Education/Prevention." p.84-91. Sex and Sexuality. Ed. Richard McAnulty, M. Michele Burnette. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2006. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection.

Sex, Youth, and Sex Education: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection.

Web

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based Abstinence Education Interventions for Adolescents. November 5, 2009.

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Guide to Community Preventive Services. Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based comprehensive risk reduction interventions for adolescents. November 5, 2009.

12/2010

Earthquake

Chile Earthquake
Magnitude 8.8 - OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE. USGS national earthquake information center.

News

• Gibbs, Robert. Information on the Chilean Earthquake and Tsunami Warnings. The White House Blog. Feb. 27, 2010. Web.
• Mackey, Robert. Latest Updates on Earthquake in Chile New York Times (blog)
• Kraul, Chris. 8.8 earthquake hits Chile; tsunami feared throughout eastern Pacific. LA Times. Feb. 27, 2010. Web.

How you can help

• Chile Earthquake: How you can help and stay safe from tsunamis. USA Today. Feb 27, 2010. Web.
• Google page: Support Disaster Relief in Chile (Include person finder.)

Haiti Earthquake
News Brief on Haitian reconstruction:Ten percent of relief aid should be allocated to building safer houses, hospitals and schools
The White House Haiti Earthquake Relief page
http://www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake_embed
Center for International Disaster Information
http://www.cidi.org/incident/haiti-10a/
USGS national earthquake information center.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#summary
Additional information, news reports
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#news
US Department of State
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_haiti_info_number.html

Earthquakes in General

CBC Library Books: (earthquakes OR Seismology)[in Subject] OR (earthquake? AND disaster?)[in Keyword Anywhere]

Worsnop, Richard L. "Earthquake Research." CQ Researcher 4.47 (1994): 1105-1128. CQ Researcher. Web.

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

• News Brief: Earthquakes caused the deadliest disasters in the past decade

updated 2/2/2010 yy

Sex Scandals

Articles

CQ Researcher
Greenblatt, Alan. "Sex Scandals: Do the media pay too much attention to adultery?." CQ Researcher 20.3 (2010): 49-72.

From Thomas Jefferson to Tiger Woods, sex scandals have been a recurring feature of American life. Today, text messages and surveillance cameras have made it harder to keep affairs secret, and the proliferation of Web sites and cable TV shows means that a politician or celebrity who cheats is more likely than ever to be exposed. Politicians and clergy who preach “family values” have had their personal hypocrisy revealed. In the wake of scandal in recent years, governors have resigned, a president has been impeached and senators have been caught using prostitutes and soliciting in an airport men's room. Nevertheless, questions remain about the ethical and journalistic propriety of publicizing private acts. Does the public have a right to know about private affairs — especially when they are not related to official duties? Should the news media focus on more “serious” issues?From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Main Search Keywords:
media
sex*
scandal*
politician* or celebrit*

other possible keywords:
priva*
ethic*

EBSCOhost (three sample searches)
politician* and sexual behavior
(media* or press) and celebrit* and scandal*
media and sex* and scandal*

ProQuest
(sex*) AND (politician*) AND (scandal*) AND (media*)

Book
Scooped! : media miss real story on crime while chasing sex, sleaze, and... Google Book Preview (See Chapter 5)

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Animal Rights

Clemmitt, Marcia. Animal Rights: Is the treatment of animals improving? CQ Researcher 8 Jan. 2010. CQ Researcher. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.
The passage of dozens of tough state animal-protection laws last year reflects growing public interest in animal welfare. Today, many Americans view pets as family members, and some even leave bequests to pets in their wills. Vegetarianism has gone mainstream as people have become concerned about the conditions on factory farms, and many scientists say farm animals have feelings. Fifteen years ago, only 10 of the country's law schools offered animal-law courses; today about 130 do. At the same time, however, billions of animals are slaughtered for food each year in our meat-eating society, and live-animal research is a major tool of biomedicine. The food industry, researchers and others who depend on using and killing animals are fighting back against what they call overblown concerns about animal rights. Last November, for example, Ohio voters approved an amendment to the state's constitution barring the legislature from approving any animal-protection laws that would apply to farms.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books

Ebrary: search "animal rights" OR "animal welfare" OR "animal experimentation"

Articles

CQ Researcher

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Animal Intelligence: Do animals think?." CQ Researcher 20.37 (2010): 869-892.

EBSCOhost subject search: animal welfare or animal industry or animal rights or animal experimentation

Conspiracy Theories

Katel, Peter. "Conspiracy Theories: Do they threaten democracy?" CQ Researcher 23 Oct. 2009.
President Barack Obama is a foreign-born radical plotting to establish a dictatorship. His predecessor, George W. Bush, allowed the Sept. 11 attacks to occur in order to justify sending U.S. troops to Iraq. The federal government has plans to imprison political dissenters in detention camps in the United States. Welcome to the world of conspiracy theories. Since colonial times, conspiracies both far-fetched and plausible have been used to explain trends and events ranging from slavery to why U.S. forces were surprised at Pearl Harbor. In today's world, the communications revolution allows conspiracy theories to be spread more widely and quickly than ever before. But facts that undermine conspiracy theories move less rapidly through the Web, some experts worry. As a result, there may be growing acceptance of the notion that hidden forces control events, leading to eroding confidence in democracy, with repercussions that could lead Americans to large-scale withdrawal from civic life, or even to violence.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books

Ebrary

Search by Subject: Conspiracy OR Conspiracies - 7 titles including:
Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Articles

EBSCOhost

Subject: Conspiracy Theories and (psych* or paranoia or belief) - 25+ full text articles

SU Conspiracy Theories and KW (united states or america*) - 150+ full text articles

ProQuest

(conspiracy theor* or truthers) AND (9/11 or "september 11") - 900+ full text articles

(conspiracy theor* or birthers) AND (obama) - 400+ full text articles

Web

Snopes.com - collects and classifies "urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip."

Factcheck.org - "..monitor(s) the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases."

Reproductive Ethics

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Reproductive Ethics." CQ Researcher May 15, 2009. Nadya Suleman, an unemployed, 33-year-old, single mother from Southern California, felt her six children weren't enough. Last January, after a fertility doctor implanted six embryos she had frozen earlier, Suleman gave birth to octuplets — and was quickly dubbed “Octomom.” Many fertility experts were shocked that a doctor would depart so far from medical guidelines — which recommend implantation of only one, or at most two, embryos for a woman of Suleman's relatively young age. Although multiple births often do result from in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted-reproduction technologies, the number of multiples has dropped over the past few years, they point out. Other analysts note, however, that government statistics show a large percentage of clinics frequently ignore the guidelines on embryo implantation. In response, lawmakers in several states have introduced proposals to increase regulation of fertility clinics. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press. Clemmitt, Marcia. "Reproductive Ethics: Should fertility medicine be regulated more tightly?" CQ Researcher. 15 May 2009.

Additional Articles

EBSCOhost

SU REPRODUCTIVE technology and SU MORAL & ethical aspects

ProQuest

SU(fertility or reproduct*) AND (ethic* or moral or morality) - over 1800 full text articles

Books

Ebrary: search (moral or ethical or ethic or ethics) and (reproductive or reproduction or fertility)- over 490 ebooks

Library Catalog: search for books on reproduct ethic (The new catalog has automatic truncation, so the search is equal to "reproduct* AND ethic*".)

ABC CLIO ebook: Reproductive Issues in America: A Reference Handbook

Gay Marriage

Articles

EBSCOhost Subject Search: same-sex marriage OR (gay rights AND marriage) - 2900+ full text articles

ProQuest Subject Search: (same sex marriage) OR (gay* and marriage) - over 6900 full text articles

"States Debate Marriage Rights (Research Feature)." June 2009. Facts On File World News Digest - issue summary with links to key news events and other features.

Gay Marriage Showdowns: Will voters bar marriage for same-sex couples? CQ Researcher 26 Sep. 2008.

Books:

Catalog - search su:Same-sex marriage or su:gay couples or gay marriage

Ebrary
Sullivan, Andrew. Same-Sex Marriage : Pro and Con. Knopf: 2004.

Alderson, Kevin and Kathleen Lahey. Same-Sex Marriage : The Personal and the Political. Insomniac Press : 2004

Reference Article: "Defense of Marriage Acts." National Survey of State Laws. Ed. Richard Leiter. 6th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008.

Web:

State By State: The Legal Battle Over Gay Marriage. NPR.org. 16 Apr. 2009.

Extreme Sports

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Extreme Sports." CQ Researcher 3 Apr. 2009.
Are they too dangerous? The wild world of so-called extreme sports ranges from motorcyclists executing double back flips to kayakers navigating deadly Class 5 rapids to mixed martial arts (MMA) — also known as “ultimate fighting” — where combatants use kicks, punches and stress holds. But many “extreme” athletes reject the label, arguing that the term marginalizes their sports as the sole province of adrenaline and violence junkies, when they actually require high degrees of skill. Now legislatures in New York and other states are considering bans on MMA. Proponents say the matches, legal at the pro level in 37 states, are safer than boxing and emphasize fighters' broad-based martial-arts training. But opponents argue that allowing such a wide variety of aggressive moves in a single fight is barbaric. However, skateboarders and other extreme athletes cite statistics showing that traditional sports such as boxing and football cause injuries and deaths at a higher rate than any of the extreme sports. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles

ProQuest:
("extreme sports" OR "mixed martial arts" OR skateboard* OR "base jumping" OR "stunt cycling" OR "ultimate fighting") AND (safety or injur* or law* or accidents or bans or helmets) - over 10000 Full Text articles in magazines, newspapers, and journals

EBSCOhost:

Subject Search: Extreme Sports - 230+ Full Text articles

Subject Search: Skateboard* - 260+ Full Text Articles

Keyword Search: mixed martial arts or ultimate fight* or HAND-to-hand fighting or cage fighting - 195+ Full Text Articles

National African American History Month

Books

Library Catalog - search by su:African Americans and su:history

Ebrary - search by subject "African American*" to find over 175 ebook titles

Articles

Select Full Text Journals from EBSCOhost and ProQuest:

• African American Review
• Black Collegian
• Black History Bulletin
• Black Scholar
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy
• Journal of African American History
• Western Journal of Black Studies

Facts.com - browse Issues & Controversies in American History for articles outlining aspects of African American history, accompanied by primary sources and other reference materials. Titles include:

• Bodenner, Chris. "Transatlantic Slave Trade." 29 May 2007.
• Kauffman, Jill. "Underground Railroad." 1 Dec. 2008.
• Bodenner, Chris. "Emancipation Proclamation." 28 Nov. 2006.
• Allard, Phil. "Civil War: Reconstruction." 21 Feb. 2006.
• Bodenner, Chris. "Harlem Renaissance." 19 July 2006.
• Bodenner, Chris. "Civil Rights Act of 1964." 12 June 2006.
• Ozga, Matthew. "Black Power Movement." 1 Mar. 2006.
• Kauffman, Jill. "Affirmative Action in Education: The Bakke Case." 22 July 2008.

Reference
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Guide to Black History
Gale Virtual Reference:
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Colin A. Palmer, ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan, 2006.

Web
United States. White House. National African American History Month, 2009 - by the President of the United States - A Proclamation. February 2nd, 2009. "This year's theme, "The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas," is a chance to examine the evolution of our country and how African Americans helped draw us ever closer to becoming a more perfect union."
United States. Library of Congress. African American Odyssey. Exhibitions from the American Memory National Digital Library. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Civil Rights Digital Library "About the NAACP." "On February 12, 2009, the NAACP will mark its 100th anniversary."

Mexico's Drug War

Katel, Peter. "Mexico's Drug War." CQ Researcher 18.43 (2008): 1009-1032.

Is the violence spilling into the U.S.?A violent drug war between the Mexican government and vicious drug gangs is escalating just over the border in Mexico — and causing concern among U.S. law-enforcement officials and lawmakers. The cartels already effectively control significant stretches on the Mexican side of the border, and now they're expanding activities on the U.S. side, including kidnapping Americans. More than 5,300 people — gangsters, soldiers, police, journalists and other civilians — have been killed this year, more than double last year's toll. Some victims have been beheaded. The Bush administration has stepped up security assistance to Mexico, but so far the aid hasn't dented the gangs' firepower, which largely depends on smuggled U.S. weapons. Some prominent foreign-policy experts say the ultimate solution is preventing drug abuse in the United States, not expanding the Mexican government's arsenal.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

EBSCOhost
( drug* or narcotics ) and ( weapon* or firearm* or gun* or arms or violence ) and ( cartel* or gang* or dealer* ) and ( smuggl* or traffick* or trade ) and ( mexic* or border or routes )

ProQuest

(drug* or narcotics) AND (traffick* or trade or smuggl*) AND (arm* or weapon* or gun* or firearm* or violence) AND GEO(mexic* ) AND GEO(united states) AND (cartel* or gang* or dealer* )

Books

Search keywords: drug mexic
Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Entries related to drug trafficking and mexico from several scholarly encyclopedias covering law, social sciences and history.

Ebooks

Search Ebrary directly for titles on drug trafficking along the mexico-u.s. border.

Web
NPR. The Diane Rehm Show. Mexican Security and the U.S. January 14, 2009. (Scroll down to see the 11:00 program and click on "Real Audio" or Windows Media link on the right to listen to the radio program.)

Gender Pay Gap

Articles

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Gender Pay Gap: Are women paid fairly in the workplace?" CQ Researcher, March 14, 2008.

More than four decades after Congress passed landmark anti-discrimination legislation — including the Equal Pay Act of 1963 — a debate continues to rage over whether women are paid fairly in the workplace. Contending that gender bias contributes to a significant "pay gap," reformists support proposed federal legislation aimed at bringing women's wages more closely in line with those of men. Others say new laws are not needed because the wage gap largely can be explained by such factors as women's choices of occupation and the amount of time they spend in the labor force. Meanwhile, a class-action suit charging Wal-Mart Stores with gender bias in pay and promotions — the biggest sex-discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history — may be heading for the Supreme Court. Some women's advocates argue that a controversial high-court ruling last year makes it more difficult to sue over wage discrimination.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

EBSCO Search
( pay or wage* or salar* ) and ( equit* or differential* or equal ) and ( gender or sex )

ProQuest Search
SU(pay or wage* or salar*) AND SU(equit* or differential* or equal) AND SU(gender or sex)

Gale Virtual Reference
"Equal Pay Act of 1963." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 4. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 186-188.

"Comparable Worth." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 49-52.

Intelligent Design & the Teaching of Evolution

John G. West - Guest Lecturer, Tuesday March 4, 2008

• 10:15 AM Lecture: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• 6:30 PM Lecture: The Science Education Controversy
• Biographical Profile and Links to Articles at the Discovery Institute
• Homepage for his book Darwin Day in America

More information available at the CBC Library:

Articles:

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Intelligent Design." CQ Researcher July 29, 2005. The Kansas Board of Education is likely to vote in September to replace the state's newly updated science-teaching standards with a revised version that plays down evolution and rejects the idea that science is a search for “natural” explanations only. The change would open the doors of biology classrooms to supernatural explanations of human life and origins, including the increasingly popular concept of “intelligent design” — the idea that life is so complex it could only have been created by an intelligent being. School boards and lawmakers in nearly half the states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania and New York, are examining similar proposals. Most scientists say intelligent design is just a new, more acceptable name for biblical creationism. But intelligent-design supporters argue that they only want an equal hearing for alternate theories of life's origins and a chance for students to examine what they say are serious gaps in evolutionary science.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

EBSCOhost: (evolution and (religion or teaching)) or intelligent design - over 275 full text articles

Books and videos (by all authors) at the CBC Library on Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Evolution

Ebooks in NetLibrary - Evolution (Biology) as Subject

Reference:

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. New York : MacMillan, 2005.

• Hewlett, Martinez. "Evolution: The Controversy with Creationism."
• Dembski, William A. "Intelligent Design."

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

• Bowler, Peter J. "Evolution: History." 30 May 2001.