Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Mixed Media: Books
No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid; Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff; Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright; Sara by Sakine Cansiz, translated by Janet Biehl.
A remarkable failure
423 - June, 2009
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Drug prohibition doesn’t work. Time to legalize instead, argues Rachel Godfrey Wood.
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