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2023
Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of 21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles one high school’s attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels the fabric of neoliberal education, exposes its logics of dependence and control, and begins to ...
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Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of 21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles one high school’s attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels the fabric of neoliberal education, exposes its logics of dependence and control, and begins to ...
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Scarcity in the Land of Plenty
2022Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the most water-rich region in the world, but millions of its inhabitants live with water risk. This contradiction, driven by mismatches in the location of supply vs demand, quality issues, and failing infrastructure, makes it crucial that policy makers use people-centric water risk metrics when assessing water ...
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Scurvy: Malnourishment in the Land of Plenty
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble, heat-labile molecule found in most fruits and vegetables with a variety of critical metabolic functions, and its deficiency presents the characteristic physical examination findings known as scurvy (1). Being water-soluble, it has minimal storage in the body.
Nicholas H, Kluesner, Daniel G, Miller
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SPIE Proceedings, 2014
Since the process of energy production in the stars has been identified as the thermonuclear fusion, this mechanism has been proclaimed as a future, extremely modern, reliable and safe for sustaining energetic needs of the humankind. However, the idea itself was rather straightforward and the first attempts to harness thermonuclear reactions have been ...
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Since the process of energy production in the stars has been identified as the thermonuclear fusion, this mechanism has been proclaimed as a future, extremely modern, reliable and safe for sustaining energetic needs of the humankind. However, the idea itself was rather straightforward and the first attempts to harness thermonuclear reactions have been ...
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2018
Story County (estimated population 92,406 in 2013) lies in the heart of central Iowa, a state renowned for its remarkable agricultural productivity. Iowa leads all states for production of corn, soybean, and hogs. Revenues from agricultural products in Iowa total more than $30 billion annually according the 2012 Agricultural Census (USDA-NASS 2014 ...
Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle E. +4 more
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Story County (estimated population 92,406 in 2013) lies in the heart of central Iowa, a state renowned for its remarkable agricultural productivity. Iowa leads all states for production of corn, soybean, and hogs. Revenues from agricultural products in Iowa total more than $30 billion annually according the 2012 Agricultural Census (USDA-NASS 2014 ...
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American Scientist, 2009
Lederman then said, "I don't know if we have such a thing as a prairie hat," provoking more laughter. His subse quent speech encouraged his people to keep physics going at Fermilab for another 10 to 15 years. And indeed, Fermilab's program continued to flour ish after Lederman stepped down the following year, and also beyond the 1993 decision of ...
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Lederman then said, "I don't know if we have such a thing as a prairie hat," provoking more laughter. His subse quent speech encouraged his people to keep physics going at Fermilab for another 10 to 15 years. And indeed, Fermilab's program continued to flour ish after Lederman stepped down the following year, and also beyond the 1993 decision of ...
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Trespassers in the Land of Plenty
2022Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez explores the logic behind Comanche raiding into Mexico following the US-Mexico War. The US Army made little effort to dissuade such raiding and incentives for Comanche raids grew as herds of bison dwindled on the Texas and New Mexico plains at the same time that Americans began pouring into the newly expanded US Southwest.
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1990
One out of every four Americans is 20 percent or more overweight. Thirty percent of all women wear a size 14 or larger dress. The average American goes on 24 weight loss diets during his or her lifetime. Recently, statistics revealed that there are 50 million people in America on a diet and another 50 million who want to go on one.
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One out of every four Americans is 20 percent or more overweight. Thirty percent of all women wear a size 14 or larger dress. The average American goes on 24 weight loss diets during his or her lifetime. Recently, statistics revealed that there are 50 million people in America on a diet and another 50 million who want to go on one.
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The American Catholic Sociological Review, 1947
John J. Kane, Walter Dorwin Teague
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John J. Kane, Walter Dorwin Teague
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Struggling in the Land of Plenty
2019At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R.
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