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...idea that a connection to nature benefits and inspires the human mind - have been knocking around mental-health circles since the early 1990s. But recent and increasing fears of global warming have given the discipline new momentum. At Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college in Boulder, Colo., Jed Swift has been leading a master's program in ecopsychology for the past four years. In the past three months alone, he has received 100 inquiries into the two-year program, which currently has 14 students. The emphasis of the program is on training students who want to be involved...
...speech-a far more focused effort-to the war. It was something I hadn't seen this year; most candidates, in both parties, try to rid themselves of Iraq in a sentence or two. Not Biden. "We have all sorts of problems and opportunities, but there's a big boulder sitting in the middle of the road-it's Iraq," he told the crowd. "And even if we solved Iraq tomorrow, the Middle East will still be in chaos." He continued in detail about his proposed Iraq solution: partition of the country into a loose federation of three states, which...
...Mara Vanderslice would know, since she was the person nominally in charge of shaping his religious identity. Vanderslice, who just turned 32, is a secret agent of sorts who grew up in a Unitarian Democratic household in Boulder, Colo., where she was raised to believe that Christians tended to be Republicans and vice versa. She went off to Earlham College in Indiana, an earnest Quaker school with a dry campus where students took themselves and their role in the world seriously. A semester abroad in Central America launched her on a spiritual journey, which led to her baptism by full...
...shows the "honor killing" of Dua Khalil Aswad, a teen-age girl from the minority Yazidi faith who defied her family and married a Muslim. She is seen being kicked and stoned by a group of men, while uniformed Iraqi policemen stand by. One man picks up a large boulder and drops it on her head. Terrified that she may meet Aswad's fate but determined to stick by al-Hilli, Majid says her best hope is that they will both be able to emigrate to someplace beyond the reach of her brothers after she and al-Hilli have completed...
...He’ll be creating a lot of stuff that other people will be watching and enjoying,” says Shawn Liu ’07, who co-authored two comic strips with Ravishankara and has known him since their high school days in Boulder, Colo. Ravishankara’s films thus far range from comedic shorts satirizing the YouTube phenomenon to a fiction film about robbers wearing fake mustaches. The artist says he aspires to create things that are fun but with purpose. “Who cares if a million people watch your movies if you?...