Miscellaneous
Ruth Camargo: Finding beauty in service
Jaime Jaramillo, who works with street children in Colombia, says Ruth Camargo is one former street child who is inspiring others in her community. Jaime Jaramillo | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Ruth Camargo, Bogotá, Columbia Photo: Firstline Schools, Inc. When I met Ruth Camargo, she was living in the Read More...
The controversial cure
Is homeopathy a healing idea whose time has come--again?Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Valerie Ohanian was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1970s when severe fatigue descended out of nowhere. Suddenly, she couldn’t stay up for more than 15 minutes at a time Read More...
The Columbus effect
Film about modern physics shows how humans create their reality Jurriaan Kamp | November 2004 Read More...
The Courthouse Effect
Our planet is getting warmer. This poses a threat to all of us. Politicians are failing to turn the tide. So do corporations and consumers. Here's a glimmer of hope: Lawyers in the U.S. are gearing up to file suit against industries creating greenhouse gases. Jurriaan Kamp | June 2006 issue Back in Read More...
Right turn on green
The rise of a political paradox brings hope for the world Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue Modern politics is notorious for the way it creates strange new meanings for familiar words. “National security,” for instance, now means attacking distant countries. “Choice,” in American electoral Read More...
Two cheers for globalism
...and then two more for localism Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue One of the basic tenets drilled into students at U.S. journalism schools is that every story has two sides. But in college I was lucky to run into a German-émigré professor who—perhaps hearing enough about tenets of all kinds Read More...
Yogurt is only part of the story...
Crist Marco Visscher | June 2006 issue Each month La Fageda sells 2 million containers of yogurt in Catalonia, Spain, to a growing group of faithful consumers prepared to pay for quality—and a unique social experiment. The company’s natural yogurts, you see, are produced largely by disabled and Read More...
Green China
Could the world's fastest-growing economic power become a model for environmental protection? Craig Cox | June 2006 Read More...
A massive outbreak of peace
New peacemakers have emerged in the 21st century. They're not political leaders. They're not savvy diplomats. They're people like you. Marco Visscher and Michael Gleich | June 2006 Read More...
Rising up in Riyadh
A young novelist's condemnation of tradition becomes an underground bestseller in Saudi Arabia Marco Visscher | June 2006 issue In chapter one, a woman discovers on her honeymoon that her husband has been unfaithful. She forgives him and becomes pregnant, but he later hits her and sends her away. A Read More...