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Struggling to Change in Spite of the Odds
Belize City, Belize–”Stinga,” is a Conscious Youth success story. The former head of the Black Scorpion Posse, BSP, is one of the original gang leaders, who signed a historic truce halting gun battles on Belize City streets. Stinga surveys his muddy surroundings before

Letter from Baku, Azerbaijan
On the farthest eastern reaches of Europe lies the Caspian Sea, a milky green land-locked sea that hides many treasures. In Baku, Azerbaijan, the oil industry is the ball and chain of the city’s environment. Traveling in the Caucasus is quite dangerous, especially

Nogales Plans to Rescue Children from Border Underworld
Veronica was ten years old when she first went into the tunnels. She insists she wasn’t thrown out of her house or abandoned like many of the other kids who lived with her in the miles of concrete storm channels that run beneath

African-American Music from the Mississippi Hill Country: “They Say Drums was a-Calling”
On a small, nondescript farm in rural northeast Mississippi, between the towns of Senatobia and Como, is one of America’s last and most tangible links to its African musical past. African Fife and drum music was historically at the center of black musical

Selling Seniors on HMO’s
WHEATON, Md.—On a muggy August morning at Hot Shoppes cafeteria, salesman Matt Buckley tells a group of retirees over coffee that Medicare is changing and they must adapt. The seniors seem worried by the prospect. Yet they know Medicare, the U.S. government’s $211-billion-a-year,

Doom Thy Neighbor: After Hiroshima and Nagasaki… Lahore and Bombay?
Note: The pictures for this story are copyrighted and not available for web publication. Islamabad—-In the coded signal sent to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to announce India’s recent nuclear detonations, Indian scientists invoked the name of Shakti, a Hindu goddess. “Shakti

True Heroes
Of the 27 faculty members teaching 549 minority students at Garrison Elementary School in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington D.C., two are black males. Darryll Vann has 26 boys and girls in his kindergarten class, Hassan Abdullah 21 in his first-grade class. Darryll

Maids
Shahida Ahmed fled Bangladesh for the United States four years ago, horrified that whoever planted a bomb to blow apart her husband’s body would come next for her. With no hope of going home again, she is awaiting a decision on her request

Messages from Underground
We had just finished our first cup of tea, when Hilda Bernstein rose and left the kitchen. Several minutes passed. Hilda was eighty-one years old and had acquired an artificial hip not long ago, and she negotiated the staircase of the small townhouse

Ida Tarbell: A Reporter’s Life
Obviously intelligent and a fast learner, the 23-year-old Ida M. Tarbell quickly expanded her job description after beginning her journalism career on The Chautauquan magazine during 1880. As a result, she received a broad education on all manner of topics. Ida Tarbell She

Bridging Troubled Waters in Ambos Nogales
In the hillside shantytowns of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, people get drinking water from trucks and store it in barrels salvaged from the dump or nearby factories. They have no choice. The city’s crumbling, 50-year-old water distribution system doesn’t extend to where they live.

Benazir Bhutto: Comeback Kid?
Note: The pictures for this story are copyrighted and not available for web publication. Benazir Bhutto, world-class political pugilist, is refusing to go down for the count. For over a year now, this twice-elected, twice-deposed ex-prime minister of Pakistan, has seemed to be

Avenging Angels: Homegirl Survival Stories
Text and photos by Donna DeCesare “The weak one is the one society thinks is good, but that’s the one that is going to end up dead.” –Angel, Latina gang member “Trippy” from Mara Salvatrucha getting a new tattoo. Photo by APF Fellow

Coca Fields: Better than Devastation?
Ichoa, Bolivia – The yap of a toucan sounded from a treetop near the Ichoa ranger post in Bolivia’s Isiboro-Secure National Park. From the cabin’s porch, park director Hans Rocha picked out the bird’s long-billed silhouette, framed against the foothills of the Andes,

Lynching in Huejutla
Looking back, people say they didn’t much notice the two men – one fat and one thin – lurching along the unpaved roads in their gray 1980 Chevrolet pickup early on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 24. Like most days in Huejutla, Hidalgo

The Lessons of Ida Tarbell 2
When Ida Tarbell left home in 1876 to attend Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., she was doing more than advancing the independence of women during an era when most were denied higher education. Tarbell was also preparing herself, unwittingly, to produce the most

Border Patrol Catches Flak at Arizona Checkpoint
Photos by Jeffry Scott A spring shower has just ended, and as the sun sets over southern Arizona, five United States Border Patrol agents work quickly to reopen a traffic checkpoint on the main highway north from Nogales. The checkpoint, which is taken

Report from Abkhazia
By Andrew Meier with photos by Mia Foster SUKHUMI — One afternoon not long ago in the beleaguered capital of Abkhazia, a tiny self-proclaimed republic on the Black Sea, its reigning satrap, Vladislav Ardzinba, paced his spartan office, nervously awaiting a call from

Are Regulators Being Bought Off by the HMO Money Machines?
Florida health czar Doug Cook said he was “sick for a week” after he learned two of his HMO regulators had accepted more than $90,000 in consulting fees from two Medicaid health plans. “Common sense would indicate this is extremely improper,” said Cook,

The United States, Libya and the Liberian Civil War
Note: The pictures published with this story are copyrighted and not available for reproduction. MONROVIA, Liberia — The Liberian civil war strikes many Westerners as a incomprehensible jumble of tribes, feuding warlords and senseless mayhem. How else can one describe what began

The Phantom Migrants

Who Owns “Appropriate Technology?”

Microwave Ovens: Cooking with your Fingers Crossed

China and Packaged Classes Highlight Self-Care Meetings


Wellness Medicine: Caring For Yourself

The Decolonization of a City

Latinization in Brighton: A Painful Odyssey


Blowing Bubbles Helps Rest Home Residents Deep Breathe

“The Magic Kingdom of Technology”

The Yellow Springs ‘News’

Si Se Puede

Yellow Springs, Ohio

Self-Care Magazine Gives Access to Healing Tools

The L.A. Times – Part One

The L.A. Times – Part Two

Activated Patient – Or Taking Care of Yourself

Healing Arts Fair


Self-Care in Health: A Movement?

New Hope in Latin America: The Church of the Catacombs


Our America: One Family in Search of a Nation
March 28, 1977

Dirty Laundry: West Pointers and Women

Brazil: The Church of Tomorrow

Linus Pauling Defends Himself Against NCI Attack

The Case for Public Financing


Military Repression Angers Argentine Church

Tax Reform: The Lobbyist as a Catalyst

Church Cowed by Uruguayan Military

West Point Careers: Pages From a Spineless Journal



West Point Careers: Mine



The President and the Lobbyists


1984 Revisited: Welcome To Paraguay

West Point Careers: Two Out

Lobbying by Public Relations: Big Oil at Bay

Religious Cold War Heats up in Latin America

Laetrile (3): The “Quacks” Are Winning


Laetrile (2): The Apricot Agonists

Financial Reform and Fourteen Thousand Bankers

Our America: One Family in Search of a Nation
August 4, 1976


Our America: One Family in Search of a Nation
June 28, 1976


Folk cultures: In conclusion…

West Point and Honor: What We Haven’t Told You

Filling The American Gap

A Pan-Arab Investment

The Shah’s American Baby


The Class of 1969: An Introduction
