Sports Edition! FEATURES & COLUMNS Coca-Cola and Pepsi Expand to New Markets
Bigger Business, by Stephen Hannaford The search for new beverage footholds became the second front of the Cola Wars: New Age beverages (juice, water, energy drinks, cold coffee) and Russia are the new frontiers in marketing.
Cyborg Insects and Paranoid Frontiers
A Consipiracy of Ravens, by Rich Seifert, former paranoid Bioengineered bugs are a reality, and disgusting things are being done to insects in laboratories for DARPA, all so the US military may field squadrons of winged insect/machine hybrids with on-board video, audio, or chemical sensors to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Dear Mistress A new love advice column starts with a question from Craving More.
Dose of Reality: Cost-shifting in Health Care: the Uninsured Are Not the Problem
by Neil Davis It is true that cost-shifting from uninsured to insured Americans occurs, but a far more serious, unheralded form of healthcare cost-shifting occurs from the Medicare and Medicaid setcors to the sector insured by privately-owned commercial enterprises. Why? Because these very efficient government programs are undermined by being underfunded.
Ester Football League Holds Mystery Game
by D. Helfferich The problem with having no reporters is that sometimes you can't tell if a rumored event actually happened, or was just an announcement on a paper plate at the bar.
The Ester Thought Posse Report
March 2008 Culture shock strikes the Thought Posse: the United States is a long, long way away from Northern India. And what's this about thirty available house lots?
The Long View: Oil & Gas Leases
part 1 of 3 by Ross Coen In early February, oil companies eager to drill in the Chukchi Sea bid a record $2.7 billion at a lease sale in Anchorage. Alaska's share of that bonanza? Zero.
The Missionary Position on Suicide Bombers
opinion by Neal Matson Suicide attacks in the name of religion is as old as Samson—but he was a right-wing terrorist, and those we actually protect, like the modern-day Luis Posada.
A Food Systems Perspective on Water Fluoridation
Outpost Agriculture, by Philip A. Loring Our nation's food system is aligned such that the cheapest foods contain the highest proportion of refined and simple sugars.
Stella Clipped
by D. Helfferich The rastadog loses her hair, and much money is raised for the beauty parlor tab.
The Story of a Relationship
Self-Reliance, part three of three, by Philip A. Loring The capitalist ideal of egocentricity and preoccupation with the accumulation of wealth has spelled disaster for our communities and ecosystems. But what to do?
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