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Caution, You Are Entering a No-Condom Zone
By some accounts, Laura Roxx arrived in L.A. in her late teens and on borrowed money. She wasn't looking for mega fame, just a couple of gigs in adult films and a nest egg to get back home to Canada...
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Here, Kiddie, Kiddie
For Gene Haislip, a former official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the perennial debate over Ritalin, the stimulant commonly prescribed for children with "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
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Tempest In a Teapot
If you haven't tried it yet, you've doubtless seen it on the shelves of your local natural foods store or on the drink menu of your favorite coffeehouse. For many people, a strong-tasting, South...
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The Fire This Time
Richard Moore's ceaseless schedule of meetings, conferences and borrowed couch space is a window into the activist fire that drives him.From his office in New Mexico, the soft-spoken Puerto Rican...
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The Good Ship Rebecca
In December 2004, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts gave a speech at a Buenos Aires cultural center. Anti-choice activists gathered to protest. They proffered pamphlets and hoisted signs. Some scuffled and threw...
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Chemical Soup and Federal Loopholes
Phthalates, the chemicals used in some cosmetics, may keep your nail polish hard and shiny and your tresses thick and glossy, but in animal tests they cause birth defects, disrupt hormone systems and...
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Brazil's Bold Move
Bolstering its reputation as a world leader in price wars over AIDS medications, Brazil is threatening to break antiretroviral drug patents unless drug companies allow it to manufacture generic...
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Miracle Malpractice
Medical technologies are a main driver for escalating drug costs, helping put health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. In a new book, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances...
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Wal-Mart's Wily Ways
Pelted by bad press and needing some image wax, Wal-Mart last week broke with company tradition by bringing journalists to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas for the company's first-ever media...
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The New Schism
Clamoring for attention from a world distracted by war and terrorism, Latin Americans were hoping for a pope from their region where, by some accounts, 65 percent of the world's Catholics live.It is...
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Brazil to U.S.: Keep Your Money
Brazil has rejected $40 million in U.S. funds for fighting AIDS because of demands that it condemn prostitution, a key participant in its flagship AIDS program. The move is seen by some observers as a...
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'El' Jazeera
Move over Al Jazeera, Telesur is here.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, tireless polemist and Bush nemesis, has a new pet project: a continent-wide television network slated for broadcast throughout...
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Drug Deal
For Luis Lopez, a 42-year-old single dad in Guatemala, globalization has nada to do with economics or democracy. On the contrary, for Lopez, it's about something much more basic: los anti-marcas...
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South America's Mining Wars Heat Up
On May 25, some 2,000 protestors near Espinar, Peru stormed the world's third largest copper mine, attacking officials, taking over facilities and forcing the mine's owner, BHP Billito, to shut down...
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Testing DNA's Truth
Score one more for DNA.Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to hear the case of Paul House, a Tennessee death row inmate whose guilt has been questioned by DNA tests that didn't exist at the time he...
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Google's Bias for Bigness
So you need a news fix....You grab some caffeine, jump online and head toGoogle News to search for the latest news about, say, New York City's planned Freedom Tower.It crawls across some 4,600...
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Uncle Sam, Meet the Bloggers
For Richard Morrison, the $350,000 he received in online donations got the politically unknown Democrat within spitting distance of unseating Rep. Tom Delay, R-Texas, in 2004.A good part of that money...
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Taking a Closer Look at Fluoride
To most folks, the decades-old controversy over fluoride belongs to the realm of foil hats and ham radios, of black U.N. helicopters and Freemason conspiracy theories.But the investigation of a Harvard...
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Wal-Mart's Semi-Green Week
Looking to shave operating costs and revive a wilting reputation, Wal-Mart last week unveiled an eco-friendly store near Dallas, Texas, an experimental Supercenter complete with wind turbines,...
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From Defender of Nature to 'Eco-Terrorist'
Tre Arrow's unwitting trajectory from candidate for Congress to the FBI's most wanted "eco-terrorist" began on Easter Sunday in 2001, when a firebomb equipped with a fuse destroyed $200,000 worth of...
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