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Farmer Brown may be my neighbor, but when she uses chemicals, she perpetuates global tragedies like Bhopal and local tragedies like contaminated wells. When she uses glyphosate, she fouls our air, our water and our land, and she helps fund bioengineering monsters that crush small farmers like her. It's great to eat local and organic food. But let's also evaluate food-production costs so we can encourage sustainability. Mama Earth needs all the help we can give her. Sherry Luna, Patagonia, Ariz...
...matter? Because, say Eric Cadora and Charles Swartz, who run the Justice Mapping Center, if you can pinpoint the few-block area that produces the most criminals, you can create programs that specifically target the problems of the people who live there and help them avoid the behaviors that land them in jail. That, in return, could save millions of dollars. New York State spends $42,000 an inmate a year. Multiply that by the number of prisoners who grew up on the same streets in parts of Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and you get what Cadora calls "million...
...It’s not as if Armenians want the land back or anything,” she said. “We want to prevent events like this from happening to another group of people...
...frequent in modern media that our memory and compassion has grown short-lived. Today, we are concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens...
...Stories from the Spanish Civil War” and “The Good Fight.” On March 13, The Crimson sat down with Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Bradley S. Epps to watch “Tierra y Libertad,” (“Land and Freedom”), one of 10 films in the series.NEVER FORGETAccording to Epps, learning about the Spanish Civil War offers today’s viewers a glimpse of idealism that is largely lost today.“I think it is relevant for its vision of idealism shot through...