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...nourished babies everywhere--plump, active, alert. In rural Honduran towns, there's now one more way to identify them: look for a little blue pin next to their names on one of Vicky Alvarado's healthy-eating charts. A child earning one of those is a child getting a fair shot at life...
...many Honduran children, a fair shot--ensured by a full stomach--has long been out of reach. Up to 40% of the population under age 5 suffers from malnutrition. In the poorest villages, that number jumps to 70%. Honduras is hardly the only country that does such a dreadful job of feeding its babies. What makes it different is that it has the resources to do better. Only 2% of Honduran families are so poor that they can't afford at least some food every day. The rest have it; they just don't know how to make the most...
...Then - snap! - the film becomes as taut as the rope Jarratt's kangaroo shooter uses to tow the tourists back to his isolated desert camp on the pretext of fixing their car. Around a campfire, he tells his captive audience: "Fair dinkum, I get around. You never know where I'll pop up." Almost an hour into Wolf Creek, the pressure has become almost unbearable. Which is exactly how first-time writer-director Greg Mclean wants it. When he learns that at a recent screening, five people left the theater around this point in the movie, and only four came...
...leave the pillars of Western civilization alone. They survived Hitler and a thousand would-be tyrants before him; trust them to survive the latest wave of murdering nihilists. These principles cannot easily be destroyed from outside, but they can be timidly surrendered, with consequences yet unknown. It's fair to assume politicians believe that they are acting in Australia's best interests, and that they need to act quickly. But the war against terror will be a marathon struggle, and it doesn't much matter if they were slow off the mark. The country's leaders need to reconsider these...
SensiTile and its creator are already causing quite a stir in architectural circles. Lath won the award for best new talent at the 2004 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which has sparked interest from a number of construction and home-design companies. Homeowners are ordering the tiles for bathrooms and entryways and as art fixtures. Lath is reinvesting any profits into the company. "My goal for the business is to be able to fund more research," he says. "There are more manifestations I haven't completely explored...