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This means turning deliberately against not only our own selfishness but our own selflessness, too. Instead of rigorous four-week language immersion classes, we should wander around in foreign countries poor and planless. We should skip out on repairing homes on the Mississippi coastline and join in on traveling up the Natchez Trace Parkway in a truck. We should substitute out bringing esteemed literary editors coffee for scrawling our own poems on the backs of napkins...
...lobbying his skeptical board members to open an office in New Orleans. When they finally agreed, he moved there from his New York headquarters, along with his pregnant wife and their 2-year-old son. This spring their daughter was born there. "Jon has drunk the waters of the Mississippi and is a true believer," Sarah jokes...
...misleading to state that "New Orleans wasn't always a city in a bowl." Levees and loss of wetlands did not cause it to sink - they simply sped up the process. The city sinks by compacting the mud on which it is built. And even if the Mississippi River ran its course unchanged, New Orleans would be buried by sediment. It would sink faster under the weight. We should not rebuild New Orleans in the same location. No city can exist there for long. We are committing future generations to a similar fate. Todd Johnston, State College...
...lifeblood for 70 million people in six different countries. The river's wetlands alone cover an area the size of Ireland, while its fish diversity is rivaled only by the Amazon. But even as many of the world's other majestic rivers - the Nile, the Yangtze, the Mississippi - were efficiently exploited for trade or hydropower, the 3,000-mile (4,800-km) Mekong has until recently largely escaped the imprint of the modern world. During the colonial era, treacherous rapids stymied expeditions hoping to uncover its upstream secrets, leaving the waterway for local fishermen and farmers. By the mid-1900s...
...interact with people or show off the substance of his antipoverty proposals, about which he knows plenty. (In 2005 he became founding director of a poverty think tank at UNC-Chapel Hill, and since then he has visited more than 100 antipoverty programs.) As his tour moved up the Mississippi Delta, he met people enduring dreadful conditions with remarkable fortitude, and he slowly came alive...