How a lucky encounter changed the course of a young mother’s life.
Carla Wise
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Climate change activism needs anybody
Neighbors find common ground in fighting global warming
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Me and my SUV
I love my purple 4Runner. She’s a 1998 stick-shift with 177,000 miles on the odometer, and her name is Jesse. She’s been all over the West, camping on dirt roads and shuttling for river trips. Once, in the high desert of central Oregon, I hit a patch of ice going fast on a cold, bluebird […]
Posted inNovember 9, 2009: Roadless-less
A beeting
Many of the most important points about the debate over genetically modified sugar beets were either glossed over or ignored in Matt Jenkins’ story “Biotech beet-down” (HCN, 10/12/09). For example, Jenkins states that Monsanto developed Roundup Ready beets a decade ago but they were put on hold due to public outrage, implying that it was […]
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Gutsy science wins the day
For any scientist, publishing in Science magazine marks a giant success. It’s one of the world’s premier scientific journals, and only about 7 percent of submitted manuscripts are accepted. But Dan Donato, a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, overcame the odds. Donato was lead author of a study on the […]