A 4 min read To facilitate development of telephone service in a rural province, the national government pays the provincial government a subsidy for each long-distance call going into the province. A corporation has offered to...

A 4 min read Vicente: Off-road vehicles should be prohibited in our province’s main wilderness park. In the past decade, the park’s bird populations have declined substantially. This decline is probably...

A 4 min read Forests in Thailand can be divided into two major types: evergreen and deciduous. Fires sweep through deciduous forests annually, when all trees have lost their leaves. Tropical evergreen forests, which are found...

A 4 min read Middletown levies its real-estate tax as a percentage of a property’s assessed value. Middletown reassessed all properties late last year, ensuring that this year’s real-estate tax on a given property...

A 4 min read Economist: A symptom of the incipient decline of a society is its inability to produce what its own citizens regard as necessary for a reasonably prosperous life. But when corporations in a given society extend...

A 4 min read People’s supply of willpower is not infinite; psychologists have found that successfully accomplishing one task requiring self-control leads to less persistence on a second, seemingly unrelated task. But that...

A 4 min read In Region X, all rights to use water from the Dusty River were allocated to farms at a government auction held more than a century ago. To increase long-term tax revenue generated by the region’s farms, the...

A 4 min read Primatologist: Monkeys and apes of most species groom other members of their species frequently. The main function of this is clearly to promote cohesion. In many species, grooming occurs far more often...