The case of the Angola 3 raises disturbing questions about race, justice and the fate of two imprisoned activists.
Anita Roddick | April 2007 issue
I am certainly not the only one on the airplane headed to New Orleans with a knot in my stomach, wondering what I might find.
It's a little over a year Read More...
Does pollution play a role in weight loss?
Kim Ridley | April 2007 issue
Waistlines around the world are expanding at an alarming rate: More than 1 billion people are overweight. While the obesity epidemic is usually blamed on individuals, who eat too much and exercise too little, scientists are Read More...
Poem by Ben Okri about change.
Ben Okri | April 2007 issue
"Change is good, but no change
Is better"
It rang through the great hall
As it has resounded silently
Through the ages.
It rang past the faces
Of stern masters and poets
And lords of learning,
Asleep in their hidden academies.
Change is Read More...
He meditated for 10,000 hours, wrote a bestseller with his famous father and became France's most celebrated Buddhist - and its most contented citizen. Ode visited Matthieu Ricard to learn about "the science of the mind" and how it might end human suffering.
Tijn Touber | April 2007 issue
A Read More...
Geotourism is a new movement that shows travellers how to improve the places they visit. Jay Walljasper tours Chile with Jonathan Tourtellot, the dedicated globetrotter who founded geotourism
Jay Walljasper | April 2007 issue
Somewhere in the Andes
I am up in the Andes exploring the backcountry of Read More...
Jaya Arunachalam is leading a movement for women's independence in India. Ode spoke with her about why mircrocredit is not enough.
Marco Visscher | March 2007 issue
On the table between us is a copy of Ode. "Turning poverty into peace," reads the cover, showing a photograph of a beaming Muhammad Read More...
The breathtaking Austrian valley of Villgraten has successfully resisted modern ski resorts, offering a natural alternative for winter fun.
Stefan Schomann | March 2007 issue
The first law of nature - including human nature - is change. Few things remain the same over time because staying Read More...
One man's effort to help a Ugandan girl stay in school shows the complicated issues involved with Western aid.
Richard Dowden| March 2007 issue
Too small to reach the seat, she cycles with one leg sticking through the frame of the old-fashioned bicycle and stops in front of me, blocking my way. She Read More...
Microcredit could help young people in the West.
Marco Visscher | March 2007 issue
You mean it could help poor youth in Africa or India to take out a loan - very noble.
Edgar Neo: "No, I actually mean young people in the West."
But aren't they wealthier than ever?
"Just ask the tens of thousands of Read More...
What the world can learn from Nordic countries.
Marco Visscher| March 2007 issue
In the 1960s when Stuart Schlegel went to live among the Teduray, a tribe that made its home in the Philippine rainforest, the American missionary found a society he called "radically egalitarian." Men and women, Read More...