Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Hints for the Vegetably Challenged My husband’s views in this space last month, while nobly defending the male viewpoint on eating vegetables, may have caused some misconceptions. Thus, I am going to go back to the question I posed in my earlier column: Why is the color […]
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood I Too Have a Dream Fittingly, Barack Obama’s inauguration took place on the very site where Martin Luther King delivered his I Have a Dream speech. I too have a dream. As a volunteer member of Obama’s advisory team it is my hope that America will now
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Raw Juicing People often ask me, “What are you on?” or “Are you always like this?” Referring to what they perceive as my high energy. So I would like to share with you what I feel gives me my best energy on a daily
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Juanita and the President It may be time to add one more famous face to the posters hanging on my wall, the ones of Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Someone new may be exciting enough to be placed among them. I know because I heard all about
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan In Defense of Death A recent column by David Brooks in the New York Times should be of special interest to many of our readers here at Lakeside—and for that reason we make bold to try and summarize Brooks’ outstanding article. Brooks writes about some experiences involving Richard John
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HISTORY 101 Courtesy of Hank Shiver “History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” John Adams (1776) “Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I have been coming to this area for three winters. (Oct to Apr) I have picked up a copy of your magazine at various locations. Also enjoy it very much. You have a first-class periodical. On Sept 6th I picked up a copy where I was doing my
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Find Feathered Friends Allen C. Turner, BS. Biology MA, PhD Anthropology Feathered Serpents: Myth or Reality? All birds have feathers, mammals have fur or hair, and reptiles have scales. “But wait!” you exclaim, “what about the pangolin, a mammal with scales?” “And what about Quetzalcoatl, the feathered-serpent of Aztecan lore?” The Biologist replies, “I
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: We picked up the March copy of your publication and were thrilled to see a quarter page ad thanking our contributors and supporters. My husband and I both remarked how generous that was of you. Imagine, then, our surprise when we saw that you printed the letter that
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The Cuban Motorcycle Policeman By Chad Olsen While in Cuba, we stayed at the Casa Dianna B&B run by Tony and Dianna. Casa Dianna is a beautiful house in an outer Havana neighborhood. It was the home of a Cuban minister, before the revolution, of course. After the revolution, the houses of the Batista
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