Food and Health |
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(Johns Hopkins Public Health, 5/25/2012)
Johns Hopkins communications projects in Mali and Senegal draw on the power of West African oral and music traditions to change behavior for better malaria prevention. Includes video taken in Mali and interview with Abdoulay Diabate, one of the popular musicians working with the Voices of Mali proje
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(Microbe, 10/1/2011)
Malaria Tools, a computer model for tracking the disease, can predict outcomes of health interventions now in the pipeline, according to Azra Ghani and colleagues at Imperial College in London, England. It simulates means for controlling malaria, while taking into account important factors such as
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(Science, 6/24/2011)
In one of West Africa's poorest countries, Ogobara Doumbo has built the Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) and nurtured, by his count, five generations of researchers. Doumbo has led MRTC into state-of-the-art research and supports a network of research clinics in stark village settings. Th
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(ABC SaveOne.net, 4/25/2011)
In Senegal, Malaria No More has worked with Youssou NDour and other top musicians on a campaign to defeat malaria. Yacine Djibo describes how the malaria crisis prompted the effort, how top world music stars got involved, and the dramatic drop in malaria cases in Senegal. Includes video and music.
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 9/1/2010)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consider the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) nonplant food source for people's consumption: Massachusetts-based AquaBounty's proposal to sell salmon genetically modified to grow faster. Consumer groups have questioned what they call a secretive FDA
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(Johns Hopkins Public Health, 5/1/2010)
Sabra Klein, an immunologist, says understanding the differences in how men and women react to vaccines can improve vaccine distribution. Finally people are starting to listen, including the World Health Organization.
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(NIH Global Health Matters, 4/1/2010)
Scientists are applying mathematical models to better understand the progression of infectious disease outbreaks. Recent work on rotavirus and influenza transmission show how diseases travel between humans and animals, and how modeling is poised to revolutionize health policy.
The Research and Po
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2/1/2010)
Rebuilding housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has involved a massive cleanup effort: removal of millions of tons of debris, thousands of potentially hazardous appliances, and tons of hazardous waste along with consideration of underground storage tanks, Superfund sites, and disabled drin
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 9/1/2009)
A string of signals in recent months -- including a new vegetable garden dubbed the People's Garden, planted at USDA headquarters to promote community gardens and better nutrition -- suggest significant changes are afoot at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). But some observers see the USDA g
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 8/1/2008)
Globalization has opened the door for organic exports and China has stepped into it in a big way, notwithstanding its reputation for contaminated products. Now its domestic demand for healthy food is gaining ground and helping to bring broader change.
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(Tricycle, 7/1/2006)
NATJA-award winner for Best Historical Travel writing, 2006. A journey to find poachers in the Great Smoky Mountains uncovers strong feelings and a surprising connection between East and West.
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(National Geographic)
Interactive tour of the King Cobra's life and habits.
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Arts and Community |
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(Southern Changes, 12/4/2011)
Essay on the role of African American Freemasons in the civil rights struggle before the Civil Rights era, leading to Brown v. Board of Education.
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(Southern Cultures, 7/1/2010)
Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch's literary father and the man whom Henry Louis Gates Jr. dubbed the "King of Cats," in an interview shares a story from his youth that says a lot about him and about race in America. He also recounts his friendship with Ralph Ellison and Ellison's lost novel.
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(Americas magazine, 1/20/2010)
In the 75th anniversary of the Farm Security Administration, a tiny agency created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the job of making Americans care about rural people, a look at images that FSA photographers took in Puerto Rico reveals new connections and a fresh window on Puerto Rico of tha
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(Smithsonian Channel, 9/20/2009)
Before Jim Thompson became the dean of American noir novelists with classics like The Killer Inside Me and The Grifters, he grew up in an Oklahoma where life mirrored pulp. As a youth Thompson bounced around Oklahoma towns, working in the West Texas oil fields and sleazy hotels. In the 1930s during
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(WETA, 5/7/2009)
How do you connect literature to a democracy? That's a question we discuss in this interview about the book Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America, with Bethanne Patrick of The Book Studio, an online discussion.
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(American Library Association, 3/27/2009)
This brochure about the 1930s and the Federal Writers' Project gives a lively overview for a series of events sponsored by the American Library Association.
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(Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America, 2/9/2009)
This book tells the story of the 1930s WPA Writers' Project and how people on it documented a new view of American history. This accompanies a documentary, also titled "Soul of a People."
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(Washington Post Magazine, 5/18/2008)
A glimpse at the WPA's 1937 travel guide reveals a time when Washington revolved around Meridian Hill Park -- and was home to a poet who thought it revolved around him.
This tells what happened when Joaquin Miller built a log cabin in the heart of today's capital city, and how time changed for th
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(Chesapeake Bay magazine, 3/1/2008)
In the 1940s, cork was such an important commodity that one man, Charles McManus, led a campaign to reduce America's dependence on foreign cork.
This story was featured on NPR's All Things Considered on March 30:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89213759&ft=1&f=1003
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(Tricycle magazine, 12/1/2007)
Essay on the documentary film "Buddha's Lost Children," in which an unorthodox Buddhist monk shows abandoned children in a remote corner of Thailand the power of kick-boxing and their own choices.
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(The Washington Post, 1/7/2007)
How a Turkish boy learned to love jazz in Washington, and become the head of Atlantic Records
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(WorldView, 12/1/2006)
A traveling exhibition recalls West African hospitality and the story of Sufis in Senegal.
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(Smithsonian, 6/1/2004)
The StoryCorps oral history booth in Grand Central Station.
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Innovation and Business |
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(Forbes Asia, 12/3/2010)
Q&A with Indonesia's new ambassador to the U.S. He helped coordinate Barack Obama's recent visit to Jakarta. Here he talks about the Obama visit, U.S.-Indonesia relations, the economy, corruption, and innovation in technology and democracy.
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 6/1/2010)
Growing demand for healthier alternatives, already seen in food production and housing construction, is now happening at the building-block level of manufacturing, where "green chemistry" represents a revolutionary change in preventing pollution and health problems. Many industry and government grou
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(National Academy of Sciences, 4/1/2010)
The return of the economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. Until recently neither had played an influential role in today's global economy.
Both are making strides in developing their own domestic innovation capacities. The Natio
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 1/1/2010)
Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is the world's fastest-growing form of alternative energy, as costs of installed solar PV decline. Solar PV is also by most accounts one of the cleanest renewable energy sources. But the manufacture of solar PV materials involves compounds with health and environmental
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 12/1/2008)
Nationwide, the demand for locally produced food is growing dramatically, with perceived benefits to consumer and environmental health. Yet small farm owners and their advocates believe the U.S. system for food inspection and safety in meat and poultry squeezes small farms economically and hampers t
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(Forbes Asia, 3/24/2008)
Aurora MRI gives a new way of attacking breast cancer with early detection, but is it right for all women?
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(Forbes Asia, 10/29/2007)
Market forces and greens are pushing Indonesia to clamp down on illegal logging. The story of one company's campaign to do that.
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(Environmental Health Perspectives, 9/1/2007)
A look at whether Fair Trade and Organic eco-labels make a difference where the coffee grows, in Central America.
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(Forbes Asia, 5/7/2007)
An outside takes on Hong Kong's ginseng industry and invaded the Chinese market, all from an unlikely base.
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Arts Profiles |
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(Afropop Worldwide, 5/24/2011)
The celebrated musical duo of Amadou and Mariam from Mali have a unique style of music that has galvanized audiences around the world. In this interview they discuss their rigorous tour schedule, their plans for a series of “concerts in darkness” to give audiences a sense of how they experience musi
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(Oxford American, 6/10/2009)
Recalls a visit to North Carolina outsider artist James Harold Jennings, with a look at Jennings' liberating creations, his life and legacy.
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(Smithsonian.com, 5/19/2009)
A new exhibit, 1934: A New Deal for Artists, offers a panorama of the United States through paintings of artists in the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first nationwide foray into public art. This article looks at the exhibit and the brief, intense life of the PWAP.
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(The American Scholar, 3/20/2009)
Through letters between novelists Richard Wright and Nelson Algren before they became titans, the article traces a friendship that started between two youths, one that helped both of them grow as authors.
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(Tricycle, 6/1/2007)
Before the Cannes-winning director from Thailand made Uncle Boonmee, Apichatpong Weerasethakul was already creating a new vision of Thailand in his films.
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(Washington Post, 5/3/2006)
The studios of sculptor Wharton Esherick and George Nakashima offer two very different entries into the world of wood and 20th-century design.
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(Washington Post, 4/20/2005)
Newly restored Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, two homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, provide a glimpse at how the architect worked with his clients.
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Travel |
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(National Geographic - Intelligent Travel, 5/24/2012)
This spring brings the War of 1812 bicentennial to life in a most audacious way: with the kind of sailing ships that made the war a test of nerves for a young, unproven navy and civilian privateers. One way to relive that chapter in history is to visit the tall ships visiting U.S. ports for Operatio
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(Washington Post, 10/30/2011)
Washington Post Travel feature on the life of musicians in Bamako, Mali's capital, and the music festival in Segou.
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(Washington Post, 11/19/2010)
Washington Post Travel feature on visiting Boquete, in Panama's coffee highlands, and experiencing one of the longest zipline adventures in Central America, as well as coffee tours.
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(Roanoke Times, 4/10/2010)
A drive down the spine of Virginia to its southwest corner reveals the riches of the WPA Guide to Virginia 75 years after its publication.
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(Washington Post, 8/5/2007)
Farm stay vacations in Europe are becoming more popular and easier to find. One near Gangi, Sicily offers fantastic food and a unique experience.
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(Smithsonian, 4/1/2007)
A shrine of Freemasonry opens its doors and reveals its secrets.
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(Washington Post, 1/10/2007)
Walking through Manhattan's seamier side.
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(Outside, 4/1/2006)
Hype and truth in the ginseng trade.
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(Washington Post, 10/12/2005)
Driving through the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia near the Virginia border, you find valley walls that are surprisingly steep and unpopulated. This is a landscape of the unexpected, as dramatically beautiful as the Great Smoky Mountains farther south.
Then there are the cranberr
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(Washington Post, 1/12/2003)
Uganda lakes, forests and mountains -- and especially the people -- show a remarkable richness that travelers used to associate with Kenya's Maasai Mara and other wildlife reserves. The intrepid reporter visits sites from the Mountains of the Moon to the capital's Kasubi Royal Tombs, and learn a thi
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Film and Television |
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(Smithsonian Channel , 6/29/2010)
In Soul of a People: Writing America's Story, Patricia Clarkson narrates the story of writers who spread out across America in the 1930s to create the first American-made guides to the states. The award-winning documentary film shows a new view of the Depression and conflicting visions of America.
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(Smithsonian Channel, 9/26/2009)
Folkways Records founder Moses Asch turned the music business model on its head. He avoided hit makers, catered to unknown musicians, and dug into vanishing traditions around the world to harness music and sounds that inspire people. The film tells how Asch developed the business with artists like W
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