by Jennifer Wilson
If you ask Charles Perkins what he does for fun, you’ll hear answers you might expect from a young person: listen to music, play video games, and talk with friends. Talk to him a little more, though, and you’ll discover that this energetic teen has a higher calling.
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by Vince Bushell
Where our food comes from and how it is produced is becoming a serious concern for consumers aware of some questionable practices in the agricultural industry. Not all practices within the industry are necessarily bad, but often the choices made by the producers are related more to profit than to taste or health. You do not have to be a vegetarian to be concerned about the treatment of animals bred and raised as food. Many of us are concerned about the use of chemicals to ripen fruit or kill pests.
by Eryn Moris
A package of ground beef travels on a conveyor belt into a chamber with walls six feet thick and is exposed to either gamma rays or electron beams. Either way, the beef is exposed to the same amount of radiant energy found in about 150 million chest x-rays.
by Dan Knauss and Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Late Nite is not nostalgic in the sense of presenting an idealized vision of “the good old days,” just as it isn’t about mocking the past. A traditionalist and an iconoclast, Sister has little respect for nuns who gave up the habit, but she thinks women should be allowed to be priests, and as a kind of penance for her past sins, she makes children’s chairs from broken rulers. A good deal of impromptu humor arises from her invitation to survivors of Catholic schools in their 40s on up to share their stories about ruler-wielding nuns.
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