NYMHM: Wildlife highways, East Bloc retro-chic, South Africa's crime wave

Wed Mar 12 17:35:44 PDT 2008

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QUOTED:

    "Both the right and the left are talking about Americanization,
    Westernization, and cultural homogenization. Something like Tisza 
    shoes is embraced because it's retro, it's Hungarian, and it's 
    also a statement against the big corporate brands."

    -- Anthropologist Balazs Frida on the new communist chic in
    the former Eastern Bloc (see "Pop & Politics," below).

CONTENTS:

    *Top Stories*
      Pesticide politics and the light brown apple moth
      From bike lanes to "wildlife highways"
      New reparations call for Philippine "comfort women"

    *Law & Justice*
      South Africans march as crime wave peaks 

    *Pop & Politics*
      Communist chic in the former Eastern Bloc

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  TOP STORIES
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 > Pesticide Politics and the Light Brown Apple Moth

   California's nine-county Bay Area is now on a federal 
   quarantine list -- to which Mexico has added Los Angeles and 
   Napa counties -- as state and federal officials ponder billions
   of dollars in losses and a massive pesticide campaign to combat
   the light brown apple moth. 

   Amid rising controversy over the aerial spraying campaign, which 
   would repeatedly blanket whole cities, the San Francisco Chronicle
   reports that the owner of the company that produces the moth 
   pesticide is a major political campaign donor. 

   Stewart Resnick, who owns some of the largest almond, pistachio
   and citrus farms in the ...

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 > From Bike Lanes to "Wildlife Highways"

   The planned community of Cambourne in the United Kingdom is 
   notable not just for its abundance of bike lanes and pedestrians, 
   but also for the wetlands, woodlands and lakes, which have
   attracted an unusual variety of wildlife. 

   According to The Independent, Cambourne was built in the 1990s
   on what used to be farmland, and built "wildlife highways" to link
   ponds, forests and other habitats before the local office park or 
   housing developments were approved. 

   By linking habitat fragmented by development, isolated plant and
   animal species are more able to ...

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 > New Reparations Call for Philippine "Comfort Women"

   The Philippine legislature is considering a new resolution to 
   ask for apologies from Japan, as well as financial reparations, 
   for "comfort women" held captive by occupying Japanese forces 
   during World War II. 

   According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the resolution was
   unanimously passed by a legislative committee, but was met with
   dismay by the Department of Foreign Affairs, which stated that
   financial reparations were already ...

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  LAW & JUSTICE
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 > South Africans March as Crime Wave Peaks

   A planned march against crime in South Africa is highlighting 
   how racial and economic relations have changed in the nation 
   since the fall of apartheid 14 years ago.

   South African entertainer Desmond Dube plans to hold the Million 
   Person March Against Crime on April 24 to call for the South 
   African government to do more to ensure safety on the streets. 

   He was inspired to action after the slaying of ...

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  POP & POLITICS
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 > Communist Chic in the Former Eastern Bloc

   There's nothing unusual about people returning to the fashions, 
   products and social spots of their youth, but when that youth 
   was spent in communist Eastern Europe, nostalgia takes on new 
   levels of meaning.

   The Christian Science Monitor reports that young and old alike 
   in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and other 
   countries in the region are engaging in a fashion craze for 
   communist-era clothing, eateries and brands of sneakers 
   and soft drinks.

   There are even new nightclubs that are explicitly modeled on 
   the infamously gray ...

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