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The Editor in Chief remembers broadcasting icon Don Hewitt, founder and producer of 60 Minutes and so much more.

 
By Adrian Soghoian, New York – October 2009
            Although the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina showed that America’s response to extreme weather events was far from perfect, domestically the U.S. has the wherewithal to adapt to changing environmental stress.  Nonetheless, there are a growing number of experts who believe that the primary environmental challenges America will [...]

By Brittany van Ness, Florida – July 2006
Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia are just a few of the countries making crisis headlines these days with outbreaks of sectarian violence, religion, and a clash of secular versus religious cultures.  But there’s another often over looked factor contributing to the turmoil around the world – [...]

By Brittany van Ness, Florida – July 2006
Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia are just a few of the countries making crisis headlines these days with outbreaks of sectarian violence, religion, and a clash of secular versus religious cultures.  But there’s another often over looked factor contributing to the turmoil around the world – [...]

By Amelia Bowen, California – July 2006
            Americans may be enjoying economic prosperity now, but riding on our past successes without looking to the future may soon be the cause of our own demise.  Unless we can compete in the global marketplace, we will find our economy declining dramatically, perhaps becoming comparable to that of [...]

By Laura Pacifici , Pennsylvania – July 2006                                          
            For a group of students from a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, news reports from Iraq of insurgency, sectarian violence, mortar attacks, civilian deaths and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) were insufficient. Lacking were the voices of the Iraqi people and the war’s effect on them. 
            And so when [...]

 By Abeer Abdalla, Florida – July 2006
            Searching for motivation is something all people struggle with. But do the volatile times in which we live further belie our ability to be inspired to create the unimaginable? Not so for 27-year-old Grant Achatz who is living his dream in a kitchen-playground as chef and co-creator of [...]

Traveling where few people venture – where wildlife of any sort is scarce – the crew of the tall ship Kaisei headed for the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone this summer to examine how this growing “eighth continent,” 1300 miles off the Coast of the California coast impacts our lives. You will be surprised to learn what is bio-accumulating up the food chain and ending up on your dinner table.