If you visited participating McDonald’s between June 14 and July 11, your $1.99 Happy Meal burger/fries/drink combo also included the opportunity to take home a plump, plush Babe figure, or one of six other characters from last summer’s blockbuster movie.
The U.S. has long been the world leader in supplying financial assistance to fledgling birth control programs in the Third World. Until recently, that policy had broad bipartisan support in Congress. But now a small ideological alliance, led by Republican Congressmen Christopher Smith and Henry Hyde, has introduced a powerful divisive force: abortion.
© Photo © 2000 Gary Braasch © The Global Warming Debate Is Over. It’s Real, Inexorable, and Headed Our Way In 1995, more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reported to the United Nations that our burning of oil, coal and natural gas is changing the Earth’s climate. Five years later, many of the same […]
Compost consists mainly of humus, a dark brown blend of biochemical compounds created when organic materials decompose. It is a complex creation—a living, breathing community of bacteria, fungi, insects and other microorganisms. Applying compost to your garden adds helpful nutrients to the soil, guards against diseases and pests, can enhance soil’s ability to hold water and air and may even extend plants" growing season. And processing your own materials keeps them out of landfills.
Family planning is under siege in America–from the halls of Congress to the boardrooms of Catholic healthcare providers. In recent years, opponents and the small but powerful Christian Coalition have masterfully seized the debate, sweeping family planning under the cover of abortion politics.
Organic Cotton May be the Key to a Good Night's Rest It's easy to feel virtuous using 100 percent cotton bed sheets. What could be more pure than bedding made from a natural product, with no artificial fibers? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Mothers & Others For a Livable Planet reports that cotton is the […]
Wise Use Groups Want to Tame the Land. Conservationists Want to Turn it Over to Wildlife. Could They Ever Agree on an Ambitious Wildlife Corridor Called Y2Y? Driving through the fertile basin of Montana's Paradise Valley, wildlife seems secondary to development and politics along the two-lane highway headed toward Yellowstone National Park. Signs to “Elect […]
Soymilk’s popularity has soared since the health benefits of soy have been widely publicized, and its taste was reformulated in recent years to appeal to Americans.
Bill Adams’ tractor goes putt, putt, putt. It’s a 1957 John Deere, the last of the two-cylinder models, and just one of the many venerable pieces of agricultural equipment around the Adams Farm in southern Vermont, which has been under one family’s ownership since 1865. Adams’ tractor has been used for maple sugaring, for sheep […]
The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed adding another 11 sites to its Superfund program for cleaning up the nation's worst toxic waste contamination. Environmental groups, however, were not ready to pat the administration on the back, charging instead that more should have been done.
