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Easy ways to improve your (public) life
Jay Walljasper | June 2005 issue * Sow flower seeds in vacant lots, median strips, and anywhere that could use a little more life. Plant flowers in your front yard or a window box. *Throw a party and invite everyone on the block or in your building. Spend a little time discussing what you’d Read More...
The love in an orange
On a hot day in Senegal, a lesson in generosity. Fodé Beaudet | September 2004 issue “Can I sit here?” I was seated at a wide table with three empty chairs. After a quick look up at the beautiful woman, I hastened my response: “Sure.” “Thank you.” We didn’t speak another word, Read More...
All together
Tsunami unites humanity Tijn Touber | March 2005 issue Along with all the suffering, the tsunami in Asia has also brought us something good. There has never been such a massive, worldwide outpouring of sympathy, compassion and grief. Donations of money and goods are streaming in from all over, Read More...
The pilot who said no
Yonatan Shapira stood up for peace inside the Israeli Air ForceRobert Hirschfield | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Many in Israel are still trying to make sense of Yonatan Shapira, an Israeli Black Hawk helicopter pilot who in September 2003 made public a “pilots’ letter of refusal” which he authored Read More...
A great awakening
Starting the day right--relaxed and unrushed--makes all the difference. That's the lesson I reluctantly learned from my boyfriend. Mandy Burrell | October 2004 issue My partner is a teddy bear of a guy. He’s squeezably soft, more than a little fuzzy and he truly loves to cuddle. We live Read More...
Editor's letter
Tale of two worlds Jurriaan Kamp | November 2005 issue The images we’ve often seen:Poor, mainly black people with a sad, defeated look in their eyes sitting along the side of a road, in an airport terminal or at some kind of emergency shelter hanging on to several bags of their most cherished Read More...
At home on the ocean
The Moken, Thailand's "sea gypsies," are at home on the ocean. Andrew Testa | September 2005 Read More...
Are vaccinations safe for young children?
Two facts. Over the past 50 years, the number of cases of chronic illness among children in the West has risen sharply. During that same period, the vaccinations of babies and young children against infectious diseases have expanded enormously. Are these two developments related? A growing number Read More...
Are you a believer?
Scientific knowledge and supernatural wonders both depend on what we thinkTijn Touber | July/Aug 2005 issue I was raised in a "seeing is believing" family. My well-meaning father was a scientist who couldn’t really appreciate my spiritual explorations. To him, the only thing that counted was Read More...
Why I am proud to be an American
Ode's executive editor Jay Walljasper on why real patriots are in the streets, not in the White House. Jay Walljasper | July 2004 issue As a child learning lessons at school, I believed that my country was the greatest in the world. We had defeated Hitler in World War II, and we were now ridding Read More...