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...participants to go away from the program feeling they have been enriched with new perspectives on their heritage and culture.” The summit began with a keynote speech by Rufus Phillips, a recipient of the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit and author of “Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned in Vietnam.” Phillips, although an American citizen, spent 14 years living in Vietnam, part of it during his tenure in the CIA. Phillips said that many mistakes that the U.S. made in Vietnam War are being...
Fast food chains are notoriously cagey about telling consumers how their food gets from the field to the feedlot to the drive-thru window. Hope Jahren, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, believes consumers have a right to know how their food is made. She is the co-author of a new study that sampled almost 500 fast food items from McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King and proved what many Americans may already suspect: On a chemical level, the vast majority of fast food meat derives from a single source: corn. She did this by following...
...interested in branching out to an Episcopal church, Diana Butler Bass, author of five books on American Protestantism and an adjunct professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, invites you to try hers. "Epiphany is a downtown Episcopal church with a congregation that is fifty-fifty white and black," she says, "and it has a full spectrum of social class diversity as well as a long history in Washington." Indeed, several members of Lincoln's Cabinet belonged to Epiphany, and it was also very active in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. "It would be an interesting choice that appears...
...seen in a long time, but it’s also one of the best. It consists of equal parts gory horror and enchanting romance, so it’s not entirely clear what kind of film director Tomas Alfredson set out to make in his adaptation of Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel of the same name. And yet, judging by the accolades the film has already won, including the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, Alfredson’s dark fairy tale is capturing the hearts and minds...
...highest ranking country in the world is at about 0.82, which means that even the highest ranking country has quite some way to go,” co-author Saadia Zahidi of the World Economic Forum said in an interview with The Guardian...