Fall 2002 Contents

News

Civil service reforms to enhance homeland security
Secondhand smoke to endanger home security
Asbestos payments for unimpaired claimants
Rethinking a marijuana theory
Contesting emergency room charges at HMOs

Perspectives

Air Wars
The battle for Arabic television and radio audiences

Battle Wombs
Why some drug babies are more equal than others

Driven into a Corner
To clean the air, California can steer old cars and
new cars in better directions
By Lloyd Dixon, Steven Garber, and Isaac Porche

COVER STORY

Conflicting Benefits
Trade-offs in welfare reform
By Jeffrey Grogger, Lynn A. Karoly, and
Jacob Alex Klerman

Poor Connections
Trouble on the Internet frontiers

Commentary
Don't make after-school care the next big myth
By Megan Beckett