StageStruck: Minority Report
During the intermission of Dividing the Estate, my companion said, "Does this take place in the '50s?" No, it's 1987, but the small Texas town it's set in seems frozen in time, and Horton Foote's script feels like it was written 50 years ago....Imperium Watch: The Sludgepit Legacy
As protests in Peru quiet down after its legislature revoked trade rules that would have opened the way for logging and mining in the high Amazon country (see Imperium Watch, July 2, 2009), a suit leveled against Texaco-Chevron for polluting air, soil and water in...
Legislating Toxicity
These days, even a trip to Target can feel fraught with peril.First item on your shopping list: sippy cups for your toddler. Will they have the ones made without bisphenol A (or BPA), which the state of Connecticut recently banned from use in food containers and baby...Between the Lines: Sleeping On It
At home, my extended period of recovery is wearing thin. My wife and daughter are happy to have me back, but after nearly a year, they've begun wondering when I'm going to be done healing. Truth is, I was feeling good, caught up on a year's worth of lost...E-Edition
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