| May 7, 2012 | Food / FarmingIf you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you’d make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves. Suggest a change in behavior that achieved the same result, however, and what do you get? Catcalls, derisive comments,...
| | Food / FarmingMaybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school lunch program. If so, you’ve not taken a peek at the GOP’s...
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| | Environment / HealthOil from tar sands Is our gripe; Hard to keep it In the pipe. Poor TransCanada. Everything looked so promising. The company had just finished drawing a line across Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Oklahoma, with hardly a peep of protest. The folks...
| Apr 30, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Emira Woods puts Charles Taylor’s war crimes in Liberia and Sierra Leone into context and David Elliot delivers a moving college commencement address to today’s debt-ridden grads. Get all this and more in...