Curitiba's good medicine. (Upfront).
AT FIRST GLANCE, the fazenda looks like many other small, specialized farms that dot the rolling, fertile landscape of Brazil's southern states. But this agricultural operation in the state of Parana is different. At Fazenda da Solidaridade, the farmhands manning the hoes and rakes aren't seasoned country people working...

Of what charges? (Luke 16:1-2).
Abstract This essay explores one of Jesus' parables, arguably his most complex: that of the dishonest steward. The emphasis here is on the charges against the steward. The facts that only Luke includes this parable and that he uses a verb found only here to express the...

Resistance and the social history of Africa.
In late 1926, African workers fled from their positions as field hands on Portuguese-run maize farms in the central Mozambican districts of Manica and Chimoio. The workers, all male, were coerced recruits brought from Chemba, a Zambezi valley district. The precise circumstances of their recruitment are not clear. The...

Filipino Peasant Women.
Filipino Peasant Women. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997. xiv+225 pages. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. The world explained Corazon Aquino's ascent to the Philippine presidency in 1986 as the result of being the widow of Benigno Aquino, an opposition hero assassinated by Ferdinand Marcos's forces...

On target? Here's a new twist on an old problem: turn the Afghan poppy producers into pharmaceutical executives instead of drug dealers and generate a legal economy.
On October 24 and 25 in Ottawa conferences outlining the current situation in Afghanistan were held, at the independent Senlis Council, headed by president-founder Norine MacDonald, tabled its report on Afghanistan. For 14 months, MacDonald has lived and worked in the Kandahar region, where her council monitored...

An American's candid views on the war in Afghanistan.
Firstly, I'd like to give you a little background on my credentials. I took photographs in Afghanistan in the 1970s, and spent the civil war years making photo exhibitions about the region. Over a million people saw my show, The Afghan Folio, in 1989 alone, when it was shown...

North America & Europe.
BON APPETIT? (Above) In what is believed to have been the biggest--and unreported--agricultural workers' protest in England since the 1920s, hundreds of migrant strawberry pickers stood up to exploitation and appalling condtions at a Leominster farm in 2006. The mainly Polish workers at S & A Produce--supplying...

Chemical Christmas: immigrant tree farm workers face pesticide dangers.
Every Christmas, little Katie Alvarez asks her daddy for two trees, one for her formal living room, and one for the family room. Katie has no idea what those trees might cost her father. Treating Christmas tree fields each spring, farm-worker Felix Alvarez, 43, soaks his skin with Roundup,...

Constraints and facilitators for physical activity in family day care.
Introduction Approximately 23 per cent of Australian children are placed in formal child care (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999). Sixty per cent of those children attend care for between five and 19 hours per week (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999), and the quality of that care can...

Unplanned releases and injuries associated with aerial application of chemicals, 1995-2002.
* Aerial application is an efficient means of targeting chemical application to increase crop production. * Aerial-application pilots, however, have a high rate of fatalities compared with pilots in other industries. * Along with the risk of aircraft crash, there is the risk of exposure...