I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking that I was going to make the study of man my profession, I paid out $1,000 for a life membership.
Future historians may declare the embrace of childlessness and the small family to be one of the twentieth century’s defining elements. Yet while the percentage of people choosing only one, two or no children may have reached its high point in the contemporary developed world,
Balmy late-November, early December weather along the Eastern Seaboard prompted the jocular question, “So, how about this global warming?” The riposte throughout the northern Great Plains was, “So, where is the global warming?” as residents dug out from under early blizzards and endured sub-zero temperatures.
Ted Turner’s clearly ad-libbed after-dinner speech, about humanity’s self-destructiveness, was a confused synthesis of Southern populism, stand-up comedy shtick, and talk-radio outrage. “I don’t know how many of you have seen ‘Road Warrior.’ It’s a Warner Brothers movie,” he said, unable to resist a plug.
Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird ourselves for new challenges in the year to come. The year now ending marked Population Research Institute’s coming of age
Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women. By A. August Burns, et al. Berkley: Hesperian Foundation, 1997. Reviewed by Eric Retzlaff, RN There’s a saying you hear from time to time that could apply to this book: rat poison is 99 percent
Washington Times readers were treated to a rare spectacle during the last week of October, a battle of dueling advertisements. New York’s Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, joined with Virginia-based Population Research Institute and 31 other groups, to sponsor an advertisement challenging some of
How Big is Your Environmental Footprint? Mention of the Sierra Club brings to mind a nice little environmentalist organization fighting to save the planet from destruction and its inhabitants from extinction. I myself was one of these people, that is, until I took a look
The Tiahrt amendment, legislation which sets strict limits on the types of family planning activities the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may fund, passed the 105th US Congress and was signed into law by President Clinton on 22 October. The amendment declares many
Almost no comment needed… Before humans infested the planet, the earth was place of balance and perfection. Predator and prey, day and night, summer and winter. Nature’s way is balance. Nature always provides enough wildebeests to feed the lions. And always enough lions to keep
I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking
Future historians may declare the embrace of childlessness and the small family to be one of the twentieth century’s defining elements. Yet while the percentage
Balmy late-November, early December weather along the Eastern Seaboard prompted the jocular question, “So, how about this global warming?” The riposte throughout the northern Great
Ted Turner’s clearly ad-libbed after-dinner speech, about humanity’s self-destructiveness, was a confused synthesis of Southern populism, stand-up comedy shtick, and talk-radio outrage. “I don’t know
Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird
Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women. By A. August Burns, et al. Berkley: Hesperian Foundation, 1997. Reviewed by Eric Retzlaff, RN
Washington Times readers were treated to a rare spectacle during the last week of October, a battle of dueling advertisements. New York’s Catholic Family and
How Big is Your Environmental Footprint? Mention of the Sierra Club brings to mind a nice little environmentalist organization fighting to save the planet from
The Tiahrt amendment, legislation which sets strict limits on the types of family planning activities the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may fund,
Almost no comment needed… Before humans infested the planet, the earth was place of balance and perfection. Predator and prey, day and night, summer and