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Thinking about Golden Rice

by: Annie Senner - printed on 04-24-2002

Basic calories or enhanced vitamin intake: What is our first priority? A site visit to a poor resettlement community is Zambales Province, Philippines

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It's a Shame About Boz
Chapter three of five: setting the stage--workers fall ill and questions arise.

by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 01-31-2001

Boz, as he’s known, was a man among men in the trades, a strapping 6' 4" millwright who loved his work. He’d joined the Local out of Pasco for the specific purpose of hiring on at the poison gas incinerator construction project near Umatilla. The cost projected at almost $600 million made it the largest employer that corner of northeastern Oregon had ever seen. The government was under an international treaty obligation to destroy its entire stockpile of war gases, 12% of which were stored at Umatilla.

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New York Attack causes mixed emotions

by: Meighan Doherty - printed on 09-26-2001

Photographs capture moments in time unlike any other artistic medium. Throughout history there have been many images that have spoken volumes about memorable events from the past, such as photographs from the Great Depression, Watts, Columbine, and the Oklahoma City bombing.

The photographs from the recent attacks on America are no different from any other historical photographs in that the images one sees in those pictures will leave a lasting impression on us for years to come.

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Independent Media: Defender of freedom and democracy in this world of evil

by: Tyson Lazzaro - printed on 03-27-2002

Disclaimer: The CIA had no input into this article. Prior to writing this I have met with no pentagon officials, FBI Agents, or received any directives from the pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence regarding what I should print here.

Independently published media is quickly becoming the last bastion of truly free press in a medium filled with cooperate lapdogs and official line propagandists aiming to mold you into complacent Orwellian drones, thinking only in "acceptable" parameters.

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Children of Abraham Need to Return to Common Faith

by: Fr. Gary Ruzicka - printed on 11-03-2000

The situation in the Holy Lands is sad because all of the people involved consider themselves the Children of Abraham. Each considers Abraham their “Father in Faith.” As tragic as it may be, religion is the source of the conflict. For Israel, the sign of being chosen as the Children of Abraham is the sign of the Land. Therefore they cannot relinquish it. The solution to the whole problem might be to return to that common heritage as “Children of Abraham” and concentrate on what they have in common.

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A pace protester reflects

by: Casey Terry - printed on 09-11-2002

Had it been any other day, the ungodly hour at which I was awoken would have caused quite a riff between mother and me. Instead, it left us huddled close together, staring at the TV screen in shock and horror. Like most Americans, I cried for the devastating loss of life.

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