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...hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...home to Iceland. “It just seemed like something we had to do,” says bassist Georg Hólm in the new film “Heima,” explaining the band’s motivation for a free concert tour spanning the island nation. “Heima,” which is Icelandic for “at home,” chronicles Sigur Rós’s journey through small towns as they spread their symphonic brilliance. The movie has been screened sporadically throughout the United States...
...taken his ability to reveal the secrets of nature to unparalleled heights. Others came from far away, such as Hammer Simwinga, a Zambian agronomist who has developed local businesses so that villagers do not have to resort to poaching, and Tommy Remengesau Jr., the President of the Pacific Island nation of Palau, who has led efforts to preserve a priceless marine environment. Some were activists, like Olga Tsepilova, who has exposed the dangerous legacy of the Soviet Union's nuclear program, and some were industrialists, like Tulsi Tanti, the wind-power king of India...
Cape Town offers its own glimpses into South Africa's history. On the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za), you visit District Six, once a mixed-race suburb from which all residents were forcibly removed in the 1960s. In Cape Town's harbor sits Robben Island, site of the prison turned museum where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants...
...York is troubling—from the letter sent to a black high school teacher in Brooklyn, to the hanging of a noose on a black professor’s door at Teachers College at Columbia University, to its display outside a lower Manhattan post office, and throughout Long Island. Nevertheless, banning an image—however reprehensible—is a violation of free speech. If we accept the premise that all people should be free to express themselves, then we cannot deprive certain citizens of that right, even if they promulgate unsavory views in unsavory ways...