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Editors' Note
Mar 01, 2009; ... AS CONFIRMATION hearings go, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's was a breeze. He wasn't asked to explain his cheerleading for ethanol (granted, Iowa governors hardly have a choice) or genetically engineered food; the closest the senators came to a tough question was on whether ag subsidies ...
Backtalk
Mar 01, 2009; ... Fixing WaU Street David Cay Johnston's arricie "Fiscal Therapy" should be sent to Obama's team in charge of getting our financial house in order. I agree with every single solution and change he suggests, even the ones that might impact me in an unfavorable way. If Obama has not ...
CONSPIRACY WATCH: YOU ARE GETTING VERRRY HOPEFUL
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE CONSPIRACY: BarackObama is not just an unusually eloquent speaker; he is an expert in mass hypnosis (hopenosis?). By tapping into the sinister techniques of neuro-linguistic programming, the president subliminally convinced Americans to elect him - and who knows what he'll make us do next? ...
dawn of a newt age
Mar 01, 2009; ... HE'S BAAACK Who's the big Republican winner emerging from the GOP's decisive defeat in November? It's not Sarah Palin (future as a presidential contender highly doubtful), Mitt Romney (now a political nonentity), or the party's point men in Congress (smaller, weaker caucuses). Amid the ...
INSIDE AUDITION
Mar 01, 2009; ... Remember the wacky YouTube clip of Filipino prisoners forced to do the "Thriller'' dance? They're not the only ones acting out in the Philippines' prison yards. Below, Cebu City Jail inmates rehearse Magellan's 1521 ...
taser's delirium defense
Mar 01, 2009; ... STUNNING SUCCESS By all accounts, Patrick Lee was having too good a time at the Mercy Lounge, a Nashville rock club. He'd commenced the September 2005 evening by dropping a few hits of acid. Before long, the 21 -year-old was tripping and determined to climb onstage. A bouncer ...
Rocket Man
Mar 01, 2009; ... A Lobbyist Lifts Off * Which toxic waste is found in lettuce, spinach, breast milk, and the drinking water of at least 16.6 million Americans? * How much have the Pentagon and military contractors spent to block tougher regulation of the substance? * Which agency faced a ...
service gone wild
Mar 01, 2009; ... For spring break fun, can good deeds and learning compete with wet T-shirt contests and random hookups? You decide. Rite of Spring: Tequila shots Righteous Spring: Measles shots. Public health students from the University of Michigan spend their vacation observing a childhood ...
their own private africa
Mar 01, 2009; ... BLACKWATER'S NEW FRONTIER "You give me money, I don't care who you are." It was late October, and Zimbabwe's defense attaché, a soft-spoken, thick-shouldered lieutenant colonel, was explaining his country's freewheeling approach to business in the banquet room of the Liaison hotel on ...
wake up and smell the fine print
Mar 01, 2009; ... FRANCHISE FRAUD On a chilly spring day last year, Deborah Williams and Richard Welshans sat at their dining room table in Annapolis, Maryland. The waterfront abodes of Baltimore's ex-mayor and other affluent residents, visible from their window, seemed to drive home just how far the ...
Hard to Swallow
Mar 01, 2009; ... In civil court, the law almost never requires a losing party to cover the winner's legal costs, let alone its lunch tab. Arbitration is different. Here are the expenses Deborah Williams and Richard Welshans were obliged to pay after losing to Coffee Beanery. Court reporter/transcription ...
The Trickle-Up Economy
Mar 01, 2009; ... Who's laughing-and crying-all the way to the (federally bailed-out) bank Between 2000 and 2007, the top 5% wealthiest Americans saw their earnings rise 9%, versus 3% for those in the middle. According to Forbes' "cost of living extremely well index," the price of luxuries like ...
spoiled
Mar 01, 2009; ... OUR INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE. BUT HEIRLOOM ARUGULA WON'T SAVE US. HERE'S WHAT WILL. A COUPLE YEARS BACK, in a wheat field outside the town of Reardan, Washington, Fred Fleming spent an afternoon showing me just how hard it's gotten to save the world. After decades as ...
beets in the hood
Mar 01, 2009; ... Meet Milwaukee's veggie genius FORGET ORGANIC and locally grown food - in America's poorest urban neighborhoods, if s hard to find any affordable fruits and vegetables at all. Six grocery stores serve South Los Angeles' population of 688,000. West Oakland has no supermarkets, but close ...
michael pollan fixes dinner
Mar 01, 2009; ... America's favorite food intellectual talks with MoJo editor Clara Jeffery about ethanol, the carrot lobby, and secularizing food. Mother Jones: What surprised you as you researched in Defense of Food? Michael Pollan: One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in ...
veg-o-might
Mar 01, 2009; ... DO YOU NEED TO EAT MEAT TO GET RIPPED? THE NATURAL OLYMPIA is one of the pharmaceutical-free-bodybuilding circuit's premier contests, and even without steroids, its competitors look less like men than ideas of men as imagined by comicbook artists- with rough-hewn backs and abdomens like ...
this little piggy goes home
Mar 01, 2009; ... A KINDER, GENTLER, AND MORE CONVENIENT ABATTOIR BY BONNIE AZAB POWELL "HERE, piggy PIGGY," calls the man peering through the early-morning fog into a livestock trailer, a .22-caliber rifle in his hands. It is 7 a.m. in farm country outside Santa Rosa, California. A rooster crows. "Here ...
inside the green zone
Mar 01, 2009; ... Backyard farms, sidewalk crops, and other ideas for urban growth IN THE 1960s, landscape architect Karl Linn transformed vacant lots in cities across the nation into "neighborhood commons" - early prototypes of the community garden. Contemporary food activists are defining urban ...
the saline solution
Mar 01, 2009; ... Can this plant feed the world? IN THE MID-'80s, an atmospheric physicist named Carl N. Hodges predicted that the key to saving the planet was to make the desert bloom - with a spindly saltwater plant known as salicomia, a.k.a. sea asparagus. The idea languished for years, but now ...
slash and burn
Mar 01, 2009; ... HOW BIOFUELS COULD DESTROY THE PLANET EVEN FASTER THAN PETROLEUM NESTLES DEEP IN THE tropical rainforest on the island of Borneo, Pareh is a collection of about 60 weathered wooden houses perched on stilts and enfolded by coconut palms, banana trees, and the dappled green overhang of the ...