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The world champ of poverty fighters
Poverty can be solved, declares Muhammad Yunus. But as long as politicians and starry-eyed idealists are blinded by good intentions, poor people will remain poor. Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, which pioneered the idea of microcredit, knows how poverty can be effectively tackled. Marco Read More...
The people, united
Co-operatives are more powerful than ever around the world, offering a third way between state-run socialism and corporate capitalism. Jay Walljasper | September 2004 issue Co-operatives, most people agree, are a worthy economic alternative to unbridled corporate greed. But we generally think of Read More...
Terrorists R us
Sometimes it seems like the world can be simply divided into good and evil, into terrorists and pacifists. But is it that easy? British intellectual Ziauddin Sardar lodges a complaint Ziauddin Sardar | March 2005 issue Most terrorists lead mundane, apparently peaceful lives, but, in their own Read More...
The other side of health care
Alternative Medicine offers sounds advice on ailments large and small. | July 2004 Read More...
Healing by design
The hospital of the future may not look like a hospital at all Kim Ridley | July/Aug 2006 issue As if getting sick weren’t bad enough, landing in the hospital can make you feel even worse. There’s little privacy. Noise from roommates and hallways disturbs sleep. Isolation from family and Read More...
Our families, our selves
Psychology and personal-growth movements are making a huge mistaek, says German therapist Bert Hellinger, in focusing on the individual over the family. Tijn Touber | December 2006 issue Spiritual growth and consciousness-raising have become nearly synonymous with individualism. Our isolated Read More...
Survival of the kindest
He may well be the psychotherapist with the simplest recipe: kindness. According to Piero Ferrucci, freedom starts with being kind. To others. And yourself. History provides the proof: "One of the reasons behind the success of evolution is that we've been kind to one another." Tijn Touber | April Read More...
Tiptoe through the tulips
Wim Postema is an organic pioneer in a dirty industry Tijn Touber | July/Aug 2005 Read More...
What way for the USA?
Probing the mystery of Bush's second term.Jay Walljasper | Jan/Feb 2005 issue One of my professional sidelines through the years has been trying to make sense of American politics—both to people outside U.S. borders and those within. If you think that sounds easy, take a look at the subjects with Read More...
The saint in a chequered shirt
How five days can change your lifeTijn Touber | June 2005 issue I first met Chuck Bates in a log cabin. I was 14, and Chuck must have been around 30. With his rough beard and lumberjack shirt, he mainly reminded me of a bear I’d seen a couple of days earlier in Yellowstone Park. But this bear Read More...