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SPECIAL SECTION
The Monarch's Metaphor
Las Monarcas: Butterflies on Thin Ice
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
The monarch is beauty, delicacy, fragility, and hope; a symbol of international conservation, and a reminder to live in a way that will preserve the tiny wonders of our world.
Poetry
BY HOMERO ARIDJIS
Postings from the Path
Across the North American continent, their eyes are on the monarch.
Canary in the Cornfield
BY LINCOLN P. BROWER
At stake in the debate over genetically modified Bt corn is not just the monarch butterfly, but the integrity of the scientific process.
The Monarch Versus the Global Empire
BY PETER SAUER
Caught in the same net as other victims of the post-NAFTA trade regime, the butterfly will fly free only when our country learns to honor human rights abroad and at home.
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FEATURES
A Place to Wonder
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNN GEESAMAN
Wall Street Losses, Wall Street Gains
BY ANNE MATTHEWS
Snowy owls at JFK, coyotes in Central Park—welcome to New York, where wildlife is returning to the city's double-edged habitat
Stillness
BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
To keep spirits barraged by our culture refreshed, we may need to spend "long spells in a wakeful hush."
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DEPARTMENTS
From the Editors
Contributors
Letters
The Place Where You Live
Raritan Letter
The Turtle and the Dairy Cow
BY DAVID EHRENFELD
Arts & the Earth
Music as Nature
BY DAVID ROTHENBERG
Poetry BY UMBERTO SABA
Translated by Katherine Jackson & David Goldstein
Poetry BY DEBORAH DeNICOLA & LYNNE BAMA
Coda
Touching the Arctic
BY BILL SHERWONIT
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