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There is a new ad campaign hitting the national media called "Sex Has Consequences." 

Matthew Mayse 5-01-2001

SUSANNAH HUNTER eloquently expressed her thoughts in her piece on the death penalty ("No Longer a Bleeding-Heart Issue," March-April 2001).

"Computer science is the best instrument of history to release man's creativity...

Christians who dip their bread in the common Communion cup for fear of diseases are far more likely to get the common cold than those who sip.

The first-ever sacred pre-paid phone card series is available from Siesta Telecom Inc. 

Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase the company will stitch beneath the swoosh.

During the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Swiss border patrol prevented Naomi Klein's anti-corporate bestseller No Logo from entering the country. Apparently those little ca

 

Kris Parker, better known as hip-hop legend KRS-One (which stands for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone), left his job at Warner Bros.

Want to learn about trade laws for small businesses in Tanzania? Or buy lovely handcrafted mugs for your church volunteers? 

Aventis CropScience. Put genetically altered and EPA unapproved "Star Link" corn in Taco Bell brand taco shells; at least 44 people became ill.

On the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, the Zapatista movement began—a rebellion, they said, against the forces of globalization on behalf of the rights of indigenous Mexicans.

Hours after the Scottish Royal Navy announced that its fourth Trident nuclear-armed submarine—the HMS Vengeance—had entered service, 373 protesters were arrested in the largest-ever dem

"Uncharted Waters" is a new Mars Hill Audio report exploring the social, economic, and moral costs of casino gambling on the small town of Tunica, Mississippi.

Poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes

 

Beth Isaacson 5-01-2001

Employment Opportunities

Beth Isaacson 5-01-2001
'The hardest question for us is what to do when people get better.'
The Editors 5-01-2001

Winter brought far-flung trips for Sojourners staffers. Rose Marie Berger traveled to Colombia with Witness for Peace to learn about the front lines of the drug war there.

Scott Cairns 5-01-2001

Your petitions—though they continue to bear

just the one signature—have been duly recorded.

John Sage is low-key in approach and evangelistic in mission: Save the world through coffee. Can't be done, you say?

April 23-29 is national "Turn off Your TV" week. Coincidentally, it is also "Roll Back the Rug and Teach the Kids the Electric Slide" week.