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Small Wonder
BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
In a time when the wells of human kindness seem to be running dry, Americans find themselves looking through the cross hairs of inhumanity -- in both directions. (abridged version)

My Summer of George
BY JENNY FLYNN
One citizen is determined to reach out and touch her chief executive.

The Agrarian Standard
BY WENDELL BERRY
Agrarianism seems to be losing ground against industrial agriculture, but it remains the only land use practice that is both viable in the long-term and democratic. Twenty-five years after the publication of his seminal work, "The Unsettling of America," Berry examines what has come to pass in the interim.

Freedom of the Sea
BY JOHN HAY
Revisiting the land that has occupied him for a lifetime, Cape Cod's senior nature writer stands newly amazed and informed.

Assailed
BY DAVID JAMES DUNCAN
Assignment: Create a cosmology "based on what is portably you."

Voices from the Past
BY JEFFREY LOCKWOOD
In the 1880s, the Rocky Mountain locust crossed the Midwest in swarms a thousand miles long. By 1902 it was extinct.

On the Bosom of This Grave and Wasted Land I Will Lay My Head
BY JANISSE RAY
Even as the forests of her homeland are ground into woodchips and shipped across the globe, a native Georgian glimpses a wild world that once was, and dreams of a coming restoration.