US web site will publish list of "drug-free practitioners"

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Will police presence deter use of drug injection site?

access at North America’s first supervised site for injecting illicit drugs won’t be easy, Vancouver’s police chief said as the site opened Sept. 15 (see pages 759 and 777). But Chief Jamie Graham pledged to give Insite, which opened in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, “the best possible chances of success.” He said police officers will encourage addicts to use the site and won’t int...

Waiting-list Web site "inaccurate" and "misleading," BC doctors complain.

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

If You Build a Political Web Site, Will They Come?

Synopsis: The core issue for this study concerns the social and political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies, in particular the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation, social capital, and civic engagement in Britain. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet on the public sphere. The main influence of this deve...