Twelve of the world's top 20 megacities are in Asia and the Pacific. Tokyo, with more than 26 million people, is currently the world's largest city.
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Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 9-01-2002
The Nonviolent Peaceforce is putting soldiers in the field.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 9-01-2002
The world now has purple M&Ms, but hold your applause for the little chocolates until the West African cocoa fields are rid of child slavery.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 9-01-2002
The Glasgow University Media Group decided to research how much about the Middle East conflict students learned from watching TV. This is what they found.
Philip Jenkins 9-01-2002
IN "CATHOLIC Scandal, Ecumenical Solution" (July-August 2002), Rose Marie Ber
Jean Kenny SP 9-01-2002
THANKS FOR including Joan Chittister's article "The Faith Will Survive" in your July-August issue.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his annual New Years speech last year, warned that his grandson would "discover a world of shocking inequality..."
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
Tapping the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil—which Congress forestalled—would hardly make a dent in the 8-million-barrel-a-day foreign oil addiction of the United States.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams is turning Hollywood inside out by challenging the film industry's harmful depictions of women and girls...
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
One average American uses 17 gallons of water daily in the shower. South African women together walk the equivalent of a round trip to the moon 16 times a day to get water.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
Worshippers at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, in Glasgow, Scotland, are now sharing pews with Scotland's most avant-garde artists.