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Articles in Jan 2008 issue of Reason

• Reason news
• Book check
  by Michael C. Moynihan
• Britain's National Health Service has told Olive Beal it will take 18 months to get her the hearing aid she needs
  by Charles Oliver
• Bonds for babies: democrats discover the ownership society
  by David Weigel
• Clean cameras
  by David Weigel
• Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, has banned students from hugging inside the building
  by Charles Oliver
• Where's the beef? Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin
  by Greg Beato
• Buzz kill
  by Ronald Bailey
• Firefighters in Braintree, Massachusetts, needed practice, so they drove to a vacant house, cut holes in the roof and the walls, and busted out the windows
  by Charles Oliver
• Burn the rich: is it "apartheid" to pay for extra fire protection?
  by Matt Welch
• All the news that's unfit
• Guests in the machine: guest worker programs mean legal inequality, tight government controls, and sometimes terrible abuses. They are also the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lot in life
  by Kerry Howley
• 35 years ago in reason
• Florida's Oswego High School suspended two students and forced about 50 others to turn their shirts inside out after they all wore anti-drunk driving T-shirts to school
  by Charles Oliver
• Remembering 'the forgotten man'
  by Nick Gillespie
• Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving
  by Michael C. Moynihan
• Bad touch
  by Jacob Sullum
• Police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Donnie James White for violating the state's flag desecration law after several witnesses saw him dragging and stomping an American flag
  by Charles Oliver
• A code is born: how catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history
  by Thomas Doherty
• Secrets of weight loss revealed! A little is easy, a lot is hard, and results may vary
  by Jacob Sullum
• Bloomberg's folly
  by Brian Doherty
• Free to move
  by Nick Gillespie
• Quotes
• In Sampson County, North Carolina, officials at Hobbton High School refused to let students wear clothing with images of the American flag to mark the anniversary of 9/11
  by Charles Oliver
• The real untold story: what the Anna Nicole Smith case tells us about the legal system
  by Robert Alt
• The Amateurs' hour: is the internet destroying our culture, or is it just annoying our snobs?
  by David Harsanyi
• Fifty years ago, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was not obscene
  by Charles Oliver
• The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters
  by Jerome Berryhill
• Home again
  by Michael C. Moynihan
• High risk
  by Jacob Sullum
• Inverview with the vampire expert: Eric Nuzum on censorship, panics, and bloodsucking fiends
  by David Weigel
• The Chinese media praised Jiang Yanyong when he broke government secrecy to reveal the true extent of Beijing's 2003 outbreak of SARS
  by Charles Oliver
• Gone Fishin'
  by Roy Gothie
• Swiss, please
  by Jesse Walker
• Pants police
  by Radley Balko
• TSA-inspired art
  by Nick Gillespie
• Michael Martin is only 7, but he's old enough to have been mistaken for a terrorist three times when he tried to board a plane
  by Charles Oliver
• Tuning Out the World
  by Tom Porter
• Verification nation
  by Kerry Howley
• Starvation diet
  by Ronald Bailey
• Let's All Give Money to the Rich Man
  by Larry Penner
• Defrocked eMinisters
  by Katherine Mangu-Ward
• Al Qaeda's forerunner
  by Michael Young