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The road less traveled
Morning rush hour in Michigan's capital city is a relatively low-stress commute. But how different would the experience be with various modes of transportation?
Putting the car before the horse
Once on the cutting edge of transportation, Detroit stands as an example of the decline of mass transit. Now the city could take a few lessons from its past.
Running on D
Americans love their trucks — the bigger, the better. But diesel, long regarded as noisy and dirty, may yet play a role in improving fuel efficiency.
A tale of two countries
Two journalists report on how to get around in China and Mexico. If the two countries are any indication of pollution, this may be the worst of times.
Along the water's edge
Three friends share a river trip to connect with nature and one another. But they can't escape the ubiquitous machinery traversing rails and roads.
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Living in a fog
Brian McKenna talks with Devra Lee Davis, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, about her childhood home and what it will take to raise the public's environmental consciousness.
A dead sea?
Once the world's fouth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea is quickly disappearing. How did Central Asia's once-prosperous fishery become a graveyard of ships?
Green on the vine
Despite the widespread use of pesticides in agriculture, one California winery is remaining an organic operation. Sharing the land with all the "earth's beings," the owner says, is what profit is all about.
et cetera | departments
From the editor
The price of 'safety'
From the director
Knight Center welcomes new assistant director, students
Lakes
Reports from the Great Lakes Region
Spring 2003
