Word: children
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having thrown extra C rations to clusters of starving Vietnamese children from moving trucks as a G.I. in Viet Nam just ten short years ago, I now see that same look in the eyes of the mother and her child on your cover. This to me leads to the same root cause: politics as usual...
...nuclear power plants near large population centers. I moved to the country ten years ago to take myself out of the rampant consumer addiction that has created the nuclear industry. And now the recommendation is to build plants near us in the country, near our solar homes and our children...
...that those people who use so much electricity should be the ones to breathe the stuff and raise their children in it. Those who have chosen otherwise should be left alone...
Under the live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, a small band of nine-and ten-year-olds scramble among the tombstones with the quick casual grace of children playing games in their own familiar schoolyard. In the midst of death-to reverse the proverb-there is life. And what life. Life in yellow T shirts with maroon-letter messages like "Whereinthehell is Gainesville, Fla.?" Life, chewing sugarless grape gum with great juicy smacks. Life about as far from death as life...
...been replaced by a Burger King. Mrs. Shaak's Life and Death classroom at first looks like just another concrete-and-glass modular unit of 1970s education. Scrawled student papers cover the walls, but they are not quite the usual exercises. On a sort of bulletin board the children have posted their own epitaphs inside crudely drawn tombstones. Nicole Carpenter writes...