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Articles in April 2004 issue of Reason

• As George Pulido and his sons were walking home from a birthday party in New York City, a small balloon his oldest son was carrying hit the sidewalk and burst
  by Charles Oliver
• Balance sheet
  by Jeff A. Taylor
• Hobbies in cyberspace: life in an online game world proves nasty, brutish, and short
  by Jesse Walker
• Sources
• Islamic leaders in Somalia say they will flog anyone caught using or selling condoms
  by Charles Oliver
• Lack of pride
  by Jacob Sullum
• Free play: the politics of the video game
  by Kevin Parker
• In defense of drunken sailors
  by Nick Gillespie
• An officer with the Aberdeen Racist Incidents Partnership
  by Charles Oliver
• Belting utilities: cracking down on clean air
  by Brian Doherty
• Emotional choices: what story you choose to believe about antidepressants reveals a deeper truth about who you are
  by Joli Jensen
• 30 years ago in Reason
• Ontario's provincial auditor says the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services received about 4,000 complaints and inquiries related to debt collectors last year, including 800 written, formal complaints
  by Charles Oliver
• Doubt, despair, and charity: no confidence in nonprofits
  by Julian Sanchez
• Late communism: capitalist roaders
  by Jesse Walker
• New Haven, Connecticut, has had a rash of robberies and shootings at convenience stores and service stations
  by Charles Oliver
• The deregulator
  by Julian Sanchez
• The staff at the U.S. Army's Combat Equipment Battalion at Hythe, Great Britain, just had to be at the office Christmas party
  by Charles Oliver
• Playing to the totalitarian left: two democratic candidates appeal to their party's "core"
  by Peter Bagge
• Text lit
  by Charles Paul Freund
• Patriot spawn: slipping down the slope
  by Julian Sanchez
• Thailand's ruling Thai Rak Thai Party is considering a proposal that would bar politicians from keeping mistresses or visiting brothels
  by Charles Oliver
• Building the perfect candidate
  by Tim Cavanaugh
• Patent sense: letting genes out of the bottle
  by Brian Doherty
• End the FDA's monopoly
  by David R. Henderson
• Flower power: free the florists!
  by Jacob Sullum
• Domination fantasies
• When New York City's Human Rights Commission demanded that the makers of Grand Theft Auto remove the phrase "Kill Haitians" from the video game, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hinted that the company could be investigated for human rights violations
  by Charles Oliver
• Regulation for dummies: is the FDA necessary?
  by Todd Seavey
• Textbook tolerance: Gulf of Hate
  by Tim Cavanaugh
• Why warming? Climate change confidential
  by Ronald Bailey
• Just say no again
  by Dan Hull
• Maryland State Police Superintendent Edward T. Norris has been charged with illegally spending about $20,000 in official funds while he was the top cop in Baltimore
  by Charles Oliver
• Fools for Communism: still apologists after all these years
  by Glenn Garvin
• Option overload: choked by choice?
  by Charles Paul Freund
• Hack roast: when citizens attack … reporters
  by Matt Welch
• Self delusions
• Quotes
• About 12,000 residents of Allentown, Pennsylvania, were notified that they had failed to pay city taxes
  by Charles Oliver
• Transcendental goods: Charles Murray discusses art, accomplishment, faith, and doubt
  by Ronald Bailey
• Abuse revisited: a feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence
  by Cathy Young
• Washington's biggest crime problem: the federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution
  by William L. Anderson