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Life After Rape

Twenty-three years ago - when I was 17 and had just graduated from high-school - someone broke into my house while I was sleeping, came into my bed, climbed on top of me, held a gun to my head and raped me. My father was asleep down the hall and my two cats were doing whatever it is that cats do in the middle of the night.Read more

Putting the Food Back Into School Food

Here's the uncomfortable truth about too many school meals: There's not much food in the food - or at least, not much nourishment in it.
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JUST Chatting With Melissa Etheridge

"Hello, this is Alyssa." "No, it's Melissa." "No, it's Alyssa, you're Melissa!"
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Are Oreos Killing Orangutans?

Biting into an Oreo has never seemed like the cause of a crisis greater than an expanding waistline or a clogged artery.
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Food or Faux

It's dinner time, do you know what your food is? It may seem like a weird question, but think about it for a second. Food, supposedly, grows somewhere, right? Well, where did a Tofu Corn Dog grow?
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Enough Is Enough - Understanding Eating Disorders

It's easy to spot someone with an eating disorder, right? Thanks to the tabloid coverage of celebrities with protruding hipbones and sunken cheeks, we know exactly what an eating disorder looks like.
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Water For People

A Natural Solution

Catching Rain in Visivan Village, Guatemala

By David Stevenson
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Can Consumer Culture Save The World?

Things have changed for Adam Lambert-Gorwyn. Child number three is on its way and his wife, formerly of the Czech Republic, has to return to her homeland to have the baby.
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All Hands On Deck

Now, more than ever, it's time for us to come together, dig in, and get stuff done!
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The Edible Schoolyard: Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation

by Ann Simms

In the summer of 1969, Alice Waters and a friend were traveling across the plains of central Anatolia in a tiny, beat-up Morris Minor. Waters had just completed her coursework at the Montessori Institute in London, where she was preparing to become a high school teacher. This trip to Turkey, along with the next year she would spend restaurant hopping in France, was to be her last hurrah before launching a lifelong career in education.
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