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The Editors 5-01-2002

It might seem that "globalization" didn't exist before the widely publicized protests in Seattle during the November 1999 WTO meetings.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Southern California has launched a billboard public awareness campaign promoting good will between Muslims and their neighbors.

Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2002

I once met a woman who—
in a frenzy of wild praise
and to fight the devil—ate glass.

The French agency Doctors Without Borders and the South African AIDS activist group Treatment Action Campaign are smuggling cheaper generic versions of three anti-retroviral AIDS drugs...

Kari Jo Verhulst 5-01-2002

These weeks from Easter to Pentecost memorialize the calling forth and sending out of Jesus' witnesses.

Since 1455, the Benedictine monks of the Kloster Andechs monastery, situated in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, have dedicated themselves to brewing a superior beer.

Tricia Schug 5-01-2002

When one thinks about homelessness, it's unlikely that the terms "network" or "mentoring" come to mind.

McDonald's 29,000 restaurants in 120 countries make it the largest fast food franchise in the $112 billion-a-year industry.

Employment Opportunities

Norm Mundhenk 5-01-2002

I want to thank you for Jim Wallis' article "Hard Questions for Peacemakers."

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours.

James J. Billings 5-01-2002

JIM WALLIS closed his editorial "Report From Ground Zero" with these words: 

There has always been crossover from Saturday night to Sunday morning, but a Christian porn site?

Appletree Rodden 5-01-2002

I was right with you in your "Report From Ground Zero" until I came to the sentence "If we did not see the face of evil on Sept. 11, we will never recognize it." 

From a Maine potato farmer to a Hawaiian banana producer, The New American Farmer profiles farms and farmers across the United States...

John C. Rallison 5-01-2002

I TAKE ISSUE with Joan D. Chittister's article "A Dangerous Discipleship" in the January-February 2002 issue. 

Sharon Brisnehan 5-01-2002

THE ARTICLE ON discipleship ("A Dangerous Discipleship," by Joan D. Chittister, OSB) was good, but why do we think so small? 

Since no one wants to be Chevy Chase in the National Lampoon's Vacation series, it has become hip to be an ecotourist

In our ongoing coverage of the bovine peace movement: Reuters radio revealed that ambassadorial cows are crossing the highly militarized border between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Family members of Sept. 11 victims traveled to Afghanistan last January to meet their counterparts—families who were the victims of U.S. bombings.