Archive for Jeff A. Taylor
Book Review: Playing the Field by Charles Euchner
The Johns Hopkins University Press • 1993 • 205 pp. • $24.95 Cities across America are caught in a headlong rush to land a professional sports franchise. Five cities—Memphis, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Charlotte—recently ended a competition to entice the National Football League into their towns. When it was over, the tab for public [...]
1May1994 | Jeff A. Taylor | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1992 • 250 pages • $23.00 In 1990 a Roper Poll asked respondents to name products which caused major garbage disposal problems in the United States. Disposable diapers were named by 41 percent as a big garbage headache—an altogether reasonable guess given the amount of attention diapers had received by the media. [...]
1May1993 | Jeff A. Taylor | 1 comment | ContinuedFreeing Digital Audio
Mr. Taylor is a reporter at The Smithfield Herald in Smithfield, North Carolina. Technical innovation has long been recognized as a by-product of free societies. It is also true that these technical advances sometimes outstrip the development of legal systems. This often forces basic principles to be re-examined in light of the new developments. Advances [...]
1Apr1990 | Jeff A. Taylor | 0 comments | Continued-
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