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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | Volume IX, Number 6
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1998 |
COVER STORY
BABY BOOM - American Anti-Abortion Politics Blocks Family Planning Funding Around the World
Family planning is under siege in America--from the halls of Congress to the boardrooms of Catholic healthcare providers. In recent years, opponents and the small but powerful Christian Coalition have masterfully seized the debate, sweeping family planning under the cover of abortion politics.
PARADISE LOST - America's Disappearing Wetlands
She-crab soup arrives at restaurant tables on North Carolina's Outer Banks as a rich, sweet concoction, delighting tourists and new residents whose cars still boast license plates from their old states: Florida, Ohio, New York. As the ocean breezes sweep away the day-to-day worries of beach-bound visitors, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) scientist Doug Rader realizes the days of the regional soup may be numbered. It's a simple axiom: No wetlands, no seafood.
By Sally Deneen
CONVERSATIONS
BILL MCKIBBEN - Three's Company--Four's A Crowd
When Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, his Malthusian vision of global warming was met with considerable skepticism. But his prescience has been proven by a panel of international climatologists, and witnessed by victims of drought, flooding and bizarre weather patterns all over the world. Now, the former staff writer at The New Yorker, prolific freelance writer and author of Hope, Human and Wild takes an in-depth look at family size and overpopulation in his latest book, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families. He warns us that if moderate action is ignored now, future overcrowding may become a dire global event.
By Tracey C. Rembert
GREEN LIVING
YOUR HEALTH: A BURNING DILEMMA - Aromatic Products May Pollute Indoor Air and Your Health
By Becky Gillette
MONEY MATTERS: MUTUAL APPRECIATION - Picking the Greenest Funds
By Marshall Glickman
GOING GREEN: GOING DUTCH - Dirty Canals, Organic Farms and Mud Flats Offer Low-Impact Fun
By Tracey C. Rembert
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WILD AND FREE - Maine Fights to Restore Atlantic Salmon Runs
DUST TO DUST? GREEN BURIAL IN GREAT BRITAIN
STOPPING THE INSANITY - Buy Nothing Day Highlights Holiday Excess
SAVING A CORAL REEF - A Grassroots Effort in Baja Pays Off
LAND OF THE RISING TOXINS - Japan Struggles on the Environment
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