The recent death of Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning plant geneticist credited with starting the “Green Revolution,” led to the reiteration of many of the tributes he amassed during his lifetime: that he saved the lives of millions of people, laid Malthus’ ghost to rest, and invented the production model which would enable us to continue “feeding [...]

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The following essay is an expanded version of a guest commentary that appeared in the Iowa State Daily.
To many of us, it seems that, while there may be no conscious effort on the part of the media to minimise the injustice suffered by the Palestinians, there is nonetheless a tendency to report on the Israeli [...]

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Since our last issue was published, we have undergone a few developments that we want to bring to the attention of our readers. The first is our establishment of non-profit status for the Ames Progressive. The directors of this non-profit organization will never earn any profits from our activities and 100 percent of the funding [...]

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Despite total immersion in Yankee lore over the past month, with frequent phone calls and e-mails to fellow baseball aficionados who respect the game like no other set of fans, I fully realize that a majority of sports enthusiasts gloated as the Indians bumped George Steinbrenner’s Billion Dollar Babies in the first round of [...]

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On March 20, while citizens across the country marched in demonstration of their desire for peace and in mourning for the tens of thousands of lives lost so far in the Iraq war, Lockheed Martin - who’s machinery has been put to extensive use in that war - held a solo career fair in the [...]

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On March 20th nearly 400 people rallied in the streets near downtown Ames as part of a demonstration sponsored by a number of groups of local, statewide and national scope to mark the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The participants and their sponsoring organizations gathered to call for an end to the Iraq [...]

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Illustration: Clare Kerofsky
When rain falls or snow melts we see it collecting into streams along roads to drain into gutters. Few people know where the water goes, let alone the environmental impacts. Where water goes is crucial to the health of the land and people of any community. Modern storm water management is costly, [...]

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Promoters of economic development in Ames believe that Ames should work to attract more business and industry and of course more people. We often hear these promoters say, “If we don’t grow we will die.” To express any sentiment for “no growth” or even “slow growth” often causes derisive responses from most citizens who have [...]

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A coalition of student and community groups will be holding a rally protesting the Iraq war as it moves into its fifth year on March 20th, 2007. Participants will be gathering at the Lincoln Cen- ter parking lot in front of East HyVee at 5:30PM. This will be the fourth annual peace rally in Ames [...]

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On February 5, 2007 Dennis Kucinich introduced bill HR 808 into the House to construct a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, for a fourth time, and though the concept has never been realized, it is anything but a new proposal. The oldest form of it dates back to the beginning of the nation when Benjamin [...]

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