Rose of the Year.
It's the perfect Jackson & Perkins rose for fresh-cut arrangements--velvety bright true red petals on the outside, hardy and disease-resistant on the inside. Best of all, it's named the "Cesar E. Chavez hybrid tea rose," after the late civil rights activist and United Farm Workers union founder. ...

Rural Regions in the EU: Exploring Differences in Economic Development.
Rural Regions in the EU: Exploring Differences in Economic Development. By IDA J. TERLUIN Utrecht: Netherlands Geographical Studies 289, 2001, 265 pp. Dfl 45.00 (pbk) ISBN 90 6809 324X Ida Terluin's research monograph addresses an apparently simple research question, namely: 'which theory, or theories, can...

Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. (Reviews).
Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. By Marisol de la Cadena (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2000. xiii plus 408 pp. $64.95/cloth $21.95 paperback). The problem of race mixture and how it is perceived is one of the recurrent and...

Desperate escape: the backbreaking work of North Korean women. (Refugees).
SOUTH KOREA's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported in July this year that 'tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands' of refugees are now attempting to flee from North Korea and are hiding along the Yalu river near the Chinese border. The risks for border crossers are high. The number of North Koreans...

You don't have to eat boiled turnips. (The Delicious Revolution).
REGIONAL VARIETY Fresh, local and seasonal food is better for you, reduces the environmental impact of transport and is good for the local economy. Buying straight from the farmer can do you, your family, the farmer and the planet a world of good. FARMERS MARKETS A survey...

Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies.
By Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xiv, 198. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8078-4854-9; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2541-7.) The authors of this slim volume are respected scholars, who tap archival sources in the...

Letters.
The New Internationalist welcomes your Letters But please keep them short. They may be edited for purposes of space or clarity. Letters should be sent to letters@newint.org or to your local NI office. Please remember to include a town and country for your address. United we eat...

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers.
By Allan Kulikoff. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi], 484. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4882-4; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2569-7.) This "master narrative" (p. 6) of colonial American social history focuses on the "big economic and demographic structures" (p. 5) within which...

Beyond the barricade.
Artist Dan Baron Cohen travels the path from resistance to liberation with the landless movement in Brazil. Katherine Ainger talked with him about 'learning democracy'. NINETEEN burnt, twisted and branchless castanheira (chestnut) tree-trunks were being raised by cranes beside Highway 150 near the town of Eldorado dos...

Independence and Interdependence: Relationships in Selected Pieces of The Voices We Carry.
Alberto Manguel in an essay discussing the genre of anthologies suggests that an anthologist "proposes a certain angle from which the new reader can observe the story in question" (Manguel 4). For Manguel, "an anthologist is a reader with a purpose" (4). But, the very act of gathering disparate...