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...campaigning, volunteering, or even running for office. In local politics especially, participation matters. Sievers’ election brings much-needed attention to state and local races after months of focus on the presidential campaign. We too often forget that counties administer vital services and institutions: schools, libraries, parks, water and waste facilities, roads and transit systems, and even elections themselves. That these services directly impact citizens’ lives is all the more reason to hold local officials accountable. If nothing else, the enthusiasm—or the resentment—at having a college student in county politics ought...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Teenybopper Politics | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...last week, the country is still drowning in the aftermath of the storms. Gonaives, the country's third largest town, was the hardest hit and is still buried under 3 million metric tons of mud. Medecins San Frontiers (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) has set up mobile clinics, distributed water and constructed a temporary hospital in Gonaives, since the government hospital was completely destroyed during Hurricane Hannah in late August. In hard-to-reach areas, however, malnutrition is growing and the food supply shrinks. Daily food insecurity affects 40% of Haitian homes. In the small town of Belance, MSF discovered that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools Collapse, and Haiti's Woes Continue | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...rising from the main dishes, tempting odors almost palpable in the theater. Ooh la la has been transformed into a long, envious ooh as we watch the cast dig in. In these films, even quick bites in a café or bistro can sometimes make the moviegoer's mouth water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Tale: Family Friction and Fine Dining | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...mixed with other ingredients or eaten as cattle feed. (Corn is heavily used in feedlots to fatten cows up before slaughter.) Fast food critics say a single-source, corn-based diet is unsustainable, because the commodity is is heavily subsidized by the government and requires large amounts of fertilizer, water and fuel. TIME talked Jahren about why fast food represents the American diet, what we have in common with Germans and why fast food restaurants are depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food's Secret Ingredient: Corn | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...anyone over the age of 21 to help brew, have met with plenty of enthusiasm. “I’ve had as many as 30 kids watching the pot boil,” Wilson said. When I met with him, he was stirring a pot of murky water with muslin sacks of barley bobbing near the surface. He was making a porter to be dry hopped with cacao and vanilla beans. Not quite Natty...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Spirit in Adams House | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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