Times past

The News Review:

- Times past
- Cleveland.com: Nutrition with Cleveland Dietetic Association Forum
- Museum and its fans deserve a better year
- New Elliott movie charts magic mushroom odyssey
- Year of the Pinstripes
- Stock market reform is yet to bear fruit

Times past
Times Online – Dec 31, 2005
The London bombings of July 7, followed by their failed sequel a fortnight later, illustrated that the threat from Islamist terrorism was not one which came about through foreign agents directed by a sinister figure located in a distant cave. It was instead engineered at home and by those brought up as thoroughly British. In an odd parallel to the IRA’s decision to “ dump arms”, the meaning of the willingness of a set of home-grown fanatics to serve as human bombs is today a subject of speculation. It is speculation that Britain did not wish to entertain.

Cleveland.com: Nutrition with Cleveland Dietetic Association Forum
Cleveland Plain Dealer – Dec 31, 2005
So the USDA certified organic designation is no guarantee that a product is truly “organic. ” Look for other certifications such as the Oregon Organic Tilth designation and other more reliable certifying organizations. If you want to try locally grown organic foods, try a local farmers’ market, and look for vendors who sell their own home-grown produce and other products. Usually, the quality of their products is outstanding.

Museum and its fans deserve a better year
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 31, 2005
For the hordes of school kids bounding from the Rain Forest to the Streets of Old Milwaukee, the museum’s troubles couldn’t have been farther away. The air of normalcy was reassuring, because few institutions have such cherished places in Milwaukee’s civic consciousness. The museum enjoys a national reputation, but it’s a thoroughly home-grown enterprise whose roots go back to the city’s infancy. The museum embodies an ancient human impulse: the need to know. Two of Milwaukee’s pioneers, a German-born teacher and a Yankee surveyor, felt that need more sharply than most. Peter Engelmann arrived from Europe in 1850 and soon started a school he called the German-English Academy. Increase Lapham, who came from Ohio in 1836, worked as chief engineer for a canal company, but his real passion was science.

New Elliott movie charts magic mushroom odyssey
Ireland Online – Dec 31, 2005
The non-linear story follows six Americans who travel into rural Ireland in search of Irish magic mushrooms because they’ve heard so much about them, he explained.

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