Northern Lights Foreshadows Pan American Games – February 2011

Northern Lights Foreshadows Pan American Games By Ed Tasca   The opening of the 2011 Pan American Games is still several months away. But excitement is building for the event all over Mexico. I won’t be going because I always get lost driving around Guadalajara (I still can’t find Costco). If, like me, you won’t

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DIVORCE – Thoughts, Facts and Statistics – February 2011

DIVORCE– Thoughts, Facts and Statistics By David Harper   Approximately half of all marriages in the USA will end in divorce before the couple’s 20th anniversary. So is the glass half full? Some Catholic countries were slow in legalizing divorce. In Argentina, it only became legal in 1987 and the first divorce filing ever in

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AMERICA: No Longer a Kinder, Gentler Nation – February 2011

AMERICA: No Longer a Kinder, Gentler Nation By Roderick MacDonald   “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”   —Alice in Wonderland Last month this same space was dedicated to the implications of hate speech in our society. Who could have foreseen the recent events in Tucson that would ignite

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FEMALE NOMADS & FRIENDS: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World – February 2011

FEMALE NOMADS & FRIENDS: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World By Mel Goldberg   By Rita Golden Gelman (paperback, Random House/Three Rivers Press Original, June 2010), this book celebrates traveling around the world, connecting with people from different cultures, and eating the foods of other countries. Gelman includes essays by forty-one

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