War is–green?! “Thousands of unexploded bombs and mines from the Gulf War are still strewn across the Kuwaiti desert. According to Charles Pilcher, a conservationist who has taught at Kuwait University for many years, the results are wonderful,” reports the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March), citing the Washington Times (January 6). “The unexploded ordnance has deterred the hunters, joy riders, and flocks of sheep that had created ‘phenomenal desertification in western Kuwait.’ Pilcher claims that in some instances the bird population, which he began studying in 1976, has increased a hundred-fold since before the war.”
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“As a woman, I greet the new men’s movement with about the same enthusiasm that, as a Jew, I feel for a reunited Germany,” writes Phyllis Eckhaus in In These Times (February 8). “If these guys get together, I can’t help suspecting that they’re probably plotting to get me.
“To do nothing to adapt means stultification and, we are told, dwindling congregations. To give the whole store away to match what this year’s market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression. This writer fears [a repeat ofl what happened in the 1950s in Protestant churches: they retooled for people who were casually attracted and liked big parking lots, spectacle, and the people left as easily as they came.
The face of reality. “Just 22 years ago, Edgewater and Uptown were 90 percent white,” reports the Network Builder (Fall). “Today, they are 44 percent white, 22 percent black, 20 percent Hispanic and 13 percent Asian.”
