Correction, please!
The Famine Feast ITEM: At the World Food Summit in Rome on June 10th, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates there was "no time to waste," stated a UN press release. "If we want to reverse the current trends and halve hunger by 2015, we need a...

The rise and fall of China's Great Wall: the race to save a world treasure. (Special Report).
MADE OF BRICK, STONE, and dirt, the Great Wall twists and turns across China's landscape like a giant dragon. It seems to rise out of the sea at Bo Hal gulf, a place known to local people as Laolongtou, or "the old dragon's head." The wall then stretches across...

Temporary disability laws. (Workers' Comp.).
State temporary disability insurance programs, sometimes referred to as cash sickness benefits, provide workers with partial compensation for loss of wages caused by temporary nonoccupational disability. These laws complement state workers' compensation laws, but only five states--California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island--have such laws in place....

End of the line for CNH East Moline combine plant.
This past August, 570 employees of the CNH Global Case-IH plant in East Moline, Ill., assembled the last Big Red combine before the plant closed. The East Moline plant started in 1927 as a single storage building housing Farmall tractors made in Rock Island until they could...

Targeting Chicano.
Hey man, heavy shit, man ... are we drivin' OK man? --from the film Up in Smoke, written by, and starring, Cheech Marin and produced by Lou Adler, 1978. More than forty years after Cesar Chavez began organizing farm workers in California, the word depicting...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine, and Death in Reformation Europe.
By Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv + 360 pp. $64.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. This richly illustrated book reimpresses on experts, and introduces to the non-specialist, the extent to which the European mentality from 1490 to 1650 was shaped by...

Echo of Dickensian England heard in Ontario courts.
WINDSOR -- An echo of Dickensian England is being heard in the Ontario Courts. A Windsor man who was one of 30,000 British children shipped to Canada in the 1930s, often as farm labour and domestic servants, is suing Barnado's Homes, Britain's largest children's charity for 400 million [pounds...

Conservation in the human landscape.
Abstract Much of our conservation efforts have focused on preservation of wilderness to the detriment of our ability to see the need for conservation efforts in our more human dominated landscapes, the places we work, farm, and live. Agricultural landscapes comprise nearly 46% of total land area....

USA: the struggle for freedom and self-respect.
1 December 2004 marks 49 years since Mrs Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man--an arrest that gave birth to the civil rights movement in the US. It shows how far America, then the home...

The new peasants' revolt. (Keynote).
Corporate agriculture is turning family and peasant farmers from stewards of the land into servants, or eradicating their livelihoods completely. Katharine Ainger meets the farmers fighting back. EVERYTHING in a supermarket has a story to tell, if only we could find it out. The produce defies seasons,...