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Food Studies: What Happens When You Quit Pre-Med to Become a Farmer?

From pre-med to Greenpeace activist to farmer: Arianne McGinnis wants to make a new system instead of opposing or fixing the existing ones.

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As with Gulf Spill, Mine Disasters, and Katrina, Warnings About Japan's Reactor Went Ignored

For many companies, it's still profit over people when it comes to safety.

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Intermission: New Orleans's Abandoned Six Flags

Six Flags New Orleans closed for Hurricane Katrina five years ago and never reopened.

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Picture Show: Harrowing Visions of New Orleans Under Water

It's been nearly five years since Hurricane Katrina struck the southeastern region of the United States, yet visions of the...

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The Man Who Cleans the Streets of New Orleans

After the Who Dat Nation and Mardi Gras revelers exit the Crescent City, they'll leave behind more than just memories of Bacchus, Thoth, and a...

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To Haiti, With Love

I met with a high school teacher last night who had just received a text message from one of his students. It read: "I came up with this idea...

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Reaction Housing

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by...

The GOOD 100: 9th Ward Field of Dreams

Four years after Hurricane Katrina, George Washington Carver High School's football team is, like many in New Orleans, still...