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...their home. The movement began last year when four San Francisco-- area foodies designated August 2005 as the first Eat Local Challenge and launched a website, Locavores.com They were inspired by the book Coming Home to Eat, ecologist Gary Paul Nabham's account of his yearlong effort to restrict himself to native foods near his Arizona home. Soon some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile diet, inaugurating their own website, EatLocalChallenge.com This year they upped the ante, moving the test to the less bounteous month of May. "With gas prices spiking, people are concerned about our dependence on petroleum...
...cheap and effective solution to the inner-city violence that has made it one of the bloodiest societies in the world. At least 120 municipalities have followed Diadema's lead, and the federal government encourages such prevention efforts by offering additional funding for law enforcement to towns that restrict drinking. Even international experts have taken notice...
...Curiously, no political group has sought to make capital out of the Haditha massacre. It says a great deal of the huge gap between Iraq's politicians (who tend to restrict themselves within the safe confines of Baghdad's highly protected Green Zone) and its people that not a single politician has bothered to visit Haditha, or even sent condolences to the bereaved families. Some Sunni leaders have mentioned the massacre in speeches, but only in the most desultory manner. ?There are so many atrocities against our people,? says Saleh Mutlak, a prominent Sunni politician and member of parliament. ?Everybody...
...American liberal arts philosophy; being forced to commit to fulfilling a mile-long list of engineering requirements as a freshman necessarily eliminates the chance to dabble and explore, which is supposed to be the purpose of the first year. Some may of course object that non-engineers often restrict themselves to taking courses in fields similar to their own, and so engineering requirements are simply an articulation of what undergraduates wind up doing themselves anyway. However, there is an important difference: While a social studies concentrator who chooses to take nothing but electives in political theory does so by choice...
...this sort comprise a significant portion of the survey. In turn, the aggregate data of all courses should be available when students weigh courses from the whole of Courses of Instruction. As long as undergraduates are given the freedom to choose their own courses, there is no reason to restrict the amount of information that they can provide each other about these courses. The CUE Guide is only one source of information among many, but limiting the CUE in any way only limits its ultimate utility. Given that the CUE Guide is one of the primary course selection resources...