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Eating away at perfection
by: Christy Scheuer - printed on 03-27-2002
It begins quietly
in certain female children:
the fear of death, taking as its form
dedication to hunger . . .
Louise Gluck, "Dedication to Hunger"
"I don?t think that you can judge who?s struggling and who?s not struggling," Lisa Herring reflects. "People used to say to me, 'You have straight A's. How can you do something like that?' But eating disorders are most common among high stress people.
What sex has to do with character
by: Anthony Pepitone - printed on 09-25-2002
What do James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Sigmund Freud all have in common? They all have a peculiar perspective of female sexuality that can be traced to a German philosopher at the turn of the century.
El Salvador: Liberating the poor, liberating ecology
by: Jessica M. Jenkins - printed on 01-23-2002
Raul's family has no rice this year. As peasants in the northern mountains of El Salvador they live off the land, so when the land suffers so do they. In good years, they can eat corn, beans, rice, and vegetables, and have just enough left over to sell in order to purchase tools, clothing, medicine. The problem is that the good years have been few and far between as of late. Within the past ten years, both drought and hurricanes have struck Central America with extreme agricultural instability, bad for any farmer but devastating for subsistence growers like Raul.
Israel. Surely God is with us
by: Ryan Bemis - printed on 10-18-2000
In our safe little corner of the world, we may not be able to fathom the strange, chaotic, and hostile world in Israel and Palestine right now. How can it be that the Palestinians could reach such a violent rage and erupt through beating an Israeli soldier to death? Are these people crazy?
The situation resembles the state of unrest in India over a half a century ago when Gandhi worked for peace through non-violent tactics.
Struggles in the European Union - Farms
by: Mono Vergara - printed on 02-20-2002
With the introduction of the euro in January of 2002, the European Union has been cast into the spotlight once again. Though the development and implementation of the euro was a big step towards the unification of Europe, the EU still struggles over questions of funding and policy, searching for consensus among its economically and culturally diverse members and prospective members.
The EU squabbles over funding for farmers
The main problem the prospective members are facing is coming from the farms.
Golden Rice Biotechnology: A controversial approach to improving nutrition in the developing world
by: Annie Senner - printed on 02-06-2002
The Golden Rice project recently celebrated its one-year anniversary at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines. Scientists, who received the seeds in January 2001, continue to spend countless hours in the lab working to advance the project through the required testing for widespread production. At the same time, critics are working equally as hard to discourage the public acceptance of this technology.