Genetically modified alfalfa is certain to contaminate normal fields -- but not to meet farmers needs.
I came to the capital for a one-year internship, like so many Washingtonians,
believing I'd get my fill of city life and move on to greener pastures, literally.
It's a partnership that reads like a parable: Invest some talents around springtime, trust the farmer to sow good seed, then bring home the harvest all summer long.
Imagine a packed elementary school auditorium and only an hour between hundreds of kids and summer vacation. "Peace" isn't the word that comes to mind.
Fair-trade and shade-grown: good words for impressing your tree-hugging, java-loving friends. But do you know enough to convince the co-worker who's sold on Starbucks?
From his fifth-floor window in Mennonite Central Committee's D.C.
office, Daryl Byler can keep an eye on the Supreme Court while he takes calls from a press
that since Sept.
My friends and I are young and hip. We buy local, ride bikes, vote for
Nader, and we do not despise conspiracy theory.
