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Our business world

by: Meghan Molenda - printed on 10-24-2001

Many of us know no other way to exist other than by relying on millions of other people everyday. We may not personally have contact with them, but we encounter different objects into which they have put their labor. The great majority of us cannot make our own clothes; much less sew on a button. A box of macaroni-and-cheese is the extent of our cooking experience. These are just two of the simple everyday challenges that we do not have to worry about, because we do not have to know how to make clothes or cook a meal.

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Their flesh is the playbill

by: Isaac Vanderburg - printed on 02-20-2002

In the Pacific Northwest, salmon are their own force of nature.

They exist in cycles, like seasons.

They affect change, like hurricanes.

The cycle of an individual, for example, begins at birth when the wriggling infant is swept tail-first toward the ocean. It ends 2-5 years later when the salmon returns?strengthened by ocean fodder and force?to slice through rapids and impossible distances, and eventually to spawn and die.

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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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What Will You Do When You Graduate?

by: Ryan Bemis - printed on 11-15-2000

Right now, down in sunny Florida, two retired men are probably kickin it back and lovin the sun. They have more to celebrate than just the warm weather, however. Retired El Salvadoran generals Jose Guillermo Garcia and Carlos Eugenio Vedes Cassanova both were acquitted by a US federal jury on November 3 for being responsible for the brutal rapes and murders of four US Churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980.

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Debunking the feminist myth

by: Christy Scheuer - printed on 09-25-2002

Feminism. Oh, the difference a word can make! The word feminism is fraught with negative implications, obscured by layers of stereotypes. Many people hesitate to call themselves feminists for fear of others’ scorn and derision.

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Corporate world different from reservation

by: Stephanie Nichols - printed on 02-14-2001

I walk to the “bus barn” and hear the snow crunch beneath my feet. As the cold crisp South Dakota air touches my face, I feel alive and ready to begin the day. After fifteen minutes of warming up the school bus, I embark on my route, which will bring 65 children to school in one of the most remotely isolated places in the country, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As I make my way across the reservation, the rising sun glistens off the morning frost that blankets these beautiful hills, and once again, I’m reminded that I’m privileged to be here.

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