Lolita, Come Home
Message from Seattle to Miami: Give us back our whale.
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Green Gifts for Expecting Parents
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A New Profit Motive
The Best Natural Cleaners Get The Job Dine Without A Spectrum Of Irritating Or Toxic Agents.
Ellen Miller
Ellen Miller interview: Show Me the Money, elections 2003-Ellen Miller is currently publisher of the online opinion journal TomPaine.com. She was the founder and former director of both the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks electoral spending, and Public Campaign, which pushes for campaign finance reform. She has given careful attention to the role of money in the political process—what she calls "the elephant in the living room"—for nearly 20 years. As she puts it, "Money is access. Money is political power. Those who give money get more than good government in return."
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
This is a very special issue of E Magazine. In the magazine’s 10-year history, we have on only one other occasion devoted the entire feature section to a single story. That piece, a cross-country exploration of environmental racism, appeared in 1998. Now we’re doing it again, with an international tour of global warming “hot spots.” […]
The Nuclear Phoenix
The Bush Administration is Pushing Ahead with a Full-Scale Revival of Atomic Power The last time anyone ordered a new nuclear power plant in the United States was in 1978, but if you think that means nukes are dead forever, guess again. The Bush Administration and the nuclear industry are making an intense push to […]
For the Birds
Enliven Your Yard with Feeders and Baths A pair of acrobatic American gold-finches alight on a cylindrical hanging bird feeder, hungrily searching for thistle seeds. A shadow plays across them, and the goldfinches dive to the safety of a nearby shrub. A large hairy woodpecker lands on a nearby feeder filled with peanuts. Relieved, the […]
America’s Troubled Waters: Can They be Saved?
america’s troubled waters
Power Plays
Fuel cells are reaching the market, in what could be a $100 billion industry.
Snack Attack
Chocolate chip cookies. Buttery popcorn. Chips and dip. Snacking is an American pastime. Indeed, Time.com has called us “a nation of committed Twinkie eaters,” while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced that the obesity rate is at an all-time high. Sixty-one percent of American adults are overweight or obese, a condition linked to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and some cancers, which kill 300,000 a year.