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The story by Evelyn Theiss of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer has been online since Friday and I can't stop wondering how Vietnam will react to it. The headline: "My Lai […]
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Renewing a spiritual connection with nature is a must not only for average Americans, but also for green activists locked in offices.
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Environmental activism is largely the province of the white upper-middle class. How can this change?
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For Alex Matthiessen, resisting the temptation to micromanage keeps his Riverkeeper organization afloat.
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The American consumer lifestyle may be incompatible with a sustainable civilization. Then again, it may be incompatible with happiness as well.
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Unless a realistic, responsible national energy policy can keep it current, "green" may prove to be a passing fad.
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The Middletown power plant tragedy raises concerns about the potential for far deadlier catastrophe. In a 2009 video, Alex Matthiessen weighs the risks of maintaining New York's Indian Point plant.
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The inside story of one of the most successful environmental restoration projects in U.S. history.
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Where does NYC drinking water come from? How is it kept safe from toxins and terrorists? Alex Matthiessen clears a few things up.
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A discussion with Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper of New York's Hudson River and President of the organization Riverkeeper.
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George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses how the new healthcare IT infrastructure paradigm can drive new strategies within the healthcare vertical industry and beyond.
David Small's graphic memoir, "Stitches," may not have won the National Book Award in Young People's Literature this year. But it did break new ground in a rapidly evolving medium, […]
For the first time, according to Gallup's latest tracking poll, less than fifty percent of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President. That's down from 60% […]
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The author and illustrator gets "infected" by his parents’ worries, but once he does fall asleep, finds that "dreams become good metaphors."
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You’ll need a serious technical grounding in art, but more importantly, an instinct for avoiding "over-sophistication."
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Since he first began doodling with crayons on yellow X-ray paper, illustrator David Small has loved art. But it wasn't his first career choice.
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How David Small’s experience with therapy in adolescence inspired the cathartic self-analysis of his memoir, "Stitches."
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David Small doesn’t care if you call his "Stitches" a "comic book," but his inspiration lies with the likes of Tolstoy and Flaubert.
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A conversation with the illustrator and author of "Stitches."
Creepiest incentive ever to exercise: Peruvian cops have arrested a gang that, they say, kills people for their fat. The extracted adipose tissue was then allegedly sold for cosmetics made […]