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Fish Heads & Faith
By Haifa, Ipul, Archana, and Caleb, New Internationalist
In its April issue, New Internationalist cuts out the middle-man and has street children tell their stories with their own words, and through their own eyes. A moving four-picture photo essay captures the kids'-eye view of life on the streets of Paris, France; Jakarta, Indonesia; New Dehli, India; and Nairobi, Kenya. The photos were gleaned from 15,000 snapshots taken by children through the Home/Life project , which equipped kids in 11 countries with simple cameras to document their lives. -- Hannah Lobel
http://www.newint.org/issue377/fish-heads-faith.htm
http://www.homelessworld.org/

Now Evolving in Biology Classes: a Testier Climate
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Christian Science Monitor
Forget trying to legislate teaching evolution and/or its alternatives; Darwin's critics have done their homework -- and they're coming to class. Armed with books, DVDs, and strategic questions, today's students are enacting fresh resistance to evolutionary theory. It's a trend science teachers have seen turn classrooms anywhere from uncomfortable to challenging. -- Julie Hanus
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0503/p01s04-legn.html

Beer Drinking Curbed by Prodigious Weed
By Kelly Young, NewScientist.com News Service
The cure for binge drinking could be growing along the highways of the South. A new study shows that people drink less beer, more slowly, when given extract from kudzu -- a vine-turned-invasive-weed originally introduced in the United States to stave soil erosion. -- Hannah Lobel
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7381

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