Reinventing Wheels
April 14, 2003 - by Josh Ruxin, TomPaine.com
To fight AIDS President Bush should boost existing programs, not launch new ones, says Access Project director Josh Ruxin on TomPaine.com.
Suit Filed Over Factory Farm Rules
March 11, 2003 - by The Associated Press, Norfolk Daily News
The Sierra Club and Waterkeepers Alliance, displeased with new EPA rules for factory farms they contend weaken water pollution laws, have lawyered up.
Rights from Wrongs
March 2003 - by Jim Motavalli, E Magazine
The cover story of the March/April issue of E Magazine asks, Do animals have legal rights or are they just "property"? A movement to grant other creatures greater protection under the law is gathering force, propelled by new findings about animal intelligence. E Magazine takes a close look at what it means to us and non-human animals.
New Ideas About Halting Diabetes
January 20, 2003 - by Anne Underwood, Newsweek
Famed diet doctor Dean Ornish has shown that a strict low-fat diet and exercise can reverse heart disease. Now Dr. Neal Barnard puts patients with diabetes on an aggressive vegetarian diet in the hopes of reversing the disease. The results are promising.
Forcing the World to Sit Up and Listen
January 6, 2003 - by Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek
Jeffrey Sachs, economist, professor, Director of the Foundation-sponsored Access Project For The Global Fund at Columbia University, was featured in Newsweek magazine's Who's Next 2003 section, "spotlighting the people who will shape our world in the year to come - and beyond."
Chimpanzee Collaboratory Members in the News
November 24, 2002 - by Brad Woodward, KARE 11 TV, Minneapolis, MN
Two members of the Foundation-supported Chimpanzee Collaboratory - Jane Goodall and Roger Fouts - were recently featured in a television report on animals used for entertainment. The news story focused on a performing chimpanzee named Tarzan and was produced by Brad Woodard, a two time Genesis Award winner, for the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis.
NEW Produces New Solutions to Bring Sprawl to a Crawl
July 25, 2002 - by Peyton Whitely, The Seattle Times
With an influx of nearly 1 million people expected in the greater metropolitan area by 2025, Northwest Environment Watch--staunch advocates of dense urban development--say sprawl could overtake an area twice the size of Seattle and Tacoma combined.
Beastly Behavior?
June 5, 2002 - by a Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
Steven Wise leans to the lectern. "I don't see a difference between a chimpanzee," he states unequivocally, "and my 4 1/2-year-old son."
Is a Chimp a 'Person With a Legal Right To a Lawyer in Court?'
April 25, 2002 by David Bank - Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
Professor Tribe of Harvard Allies Himself With Friends of 1,500 Captive Primates
Internet's Rich Are Giving It Away, Their Way
February 11, 2002 - by Sam Howe Verhovek - The New York Times
Among the most forward-looking of these Internet philanthropists is Rob Glaser, the billionaire founder of RealNetworks in Seattle, whose Glaser Family Foundation has assets of about $200 million.
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