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Tricia Schug 5-01-2002

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

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.

Employment Opportunities

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

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

Norm Mundhenk 5-01-2002

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

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

James J. Billings 5-01-2002

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

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

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." 

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.

Teen pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates have declined in the United States since 1991. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy lists 10 rules for effective sex education programs.

Friedensdorf, the international peace village in Germany, brought 8-year-old Mohammad Rahim and 30 other children from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Dusseldorf, Germany, last December for medical treatment.

Gary Downing 5-01-2002

SAY IT AIN'T SO!

More than 320 members of the Israeli Defense Forces have signed a pledge refusing "to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people" through "missions of occupation and oppression..."

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.