Current and Past Issues
Spring 2008 Issue of The Rice Cultivator
Contents:
I. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
II. NEWS & VIEWS
Pakistan: A Year in Review and Future Expectations of a Critical American Ally
By Shireen Nasir
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Argentina’s New President
By Eddie Swidriski
The Dragon Charges Ahead
By Lauren Bahorich
III. ARTICLES
The politicization of the FDA approval process: Has the FDA been captured by the
pharmaceutical industry?
By Casey Calkins, Rob Daniel, Hrishikesh Hari, and Stephen Whitfield
Contracts in a collective model of household bargaining
By Aurelia Chaudhury
Usability of election technologies: Effects of political motivation and instruction use
By Stephen N. Goggin
The Internet in Pecan Park, Houston: An ethnographic study of technology in a low-
income neighborhood
By Kirsten Jones