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EnvironmentNovember 17, 2007
Confronting the Global Timber Barons
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might help save the forests.
James North
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PoliticsJune 14, 2001
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Non-fictionFebruary 1, 2001
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FictionJune 22, 2000
African Heart, No Darkness
A revealing question: Why has V.S. Naipaul come to be much better known in the West than the great African writer Chinua Achebe?
James North
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EconomicsNovember 18, 1999
Sen’s Sensibility
Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.
James North
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Global OrganizationsJanuary 21, 1999
Media Starvation Diet
All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.
James North