Miscellaneous
Five stories about silence
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Couscous–shhh...
Learning the art of listening while you cook. Elbrich Fennema | July 2008 issue When we focus on silence, we focus on sound. Becoming silent is a gradual process. When we switch off louder elements, we hear things that are normally drowned out. This applies to life in general, and definitely to Read More...
4'33
4 minutes and 33 seconds of composed silence. Josey Duncan | July 2008 issue On August 29, 1952, at a concert hall in Woodstock, New York, pianist David Tudor sat down to play avant-garde American composer John Cage’s creation, 4’33’’. The piece requires the performer to stay at the piano Read More...
Join my gang
Nelsa Curbelo, a 66-year-old former nun and schoolteacher, took on the toughest young criminals in Ecuador’s most violent city—and won them over with love. Hilary Hart | June 2008 issue In the city of Guayaquil in southern Ecuador, Latin pop music blares through the doorway of a Read More...
Video: Barrio de Paz
Hart,Hilary| June 2008 issue In the barrios of Guayaquil, Ecuador an amazing transformation is taking place. Through the efforts of one woman, rival gangs have formed truces, turned in their weapons and have started working together to rebuild the community. Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora is proponent Read More...
Down and dirty
How carbon farming, the practise of putting CO2 back into the soil, can help fight global warming. Jay Walljasper| June 2008 issue Of all the potential solutions for global warming, this has to be one of the, well, most unusual: “Eat a local grass-fed burger.” Yet John Wick is entirely serious Read More...
Remembering the Mexican sorcerer
Lessons from the work of Carlos Castaneda. Paulo Coelho| June 2008 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
Who would want to be a refugee?
There are some 33 million refugees in the world, 9 million of whom are children. Though their faces are often seen on the news, their stories are rarely heard. Here are four. Natalie Righton| June 2008 issue Zanoessi Nimir, 12, a refugee from Darfur, managed to escape when soldiers staged an armed Read More...
Cancer's Achilles' heel
An old, once-abandoned theory about cancer is revived, offering hope for a raft of new non-toxic treatments. Tony Edwards| June 2008 issue Medical progress is invariably considered futuristic, but one bit of buzz in the world of cancer research surrounds a man who did most of his work in the 1930s. Read More...
Get happy
How to handle your stress, one day at a time. David Servan-Schreiber| June 2008 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...