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From the Stacks: August 3, 2007

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August, 2007
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Another dispatch from the farm arrived in the library this week. As 'The Voice of Eco-Agriculture' for the past 35 years, Acres USA gets into the down and dirty of ecoconscious farming -- the techniques, the politics, and the farmers. This monthly magazine from Austin, Texas, profiles farms and farmers nationwide, detailing the philosophies and economics that sustain the industry. In the August issue, Rebecca Reider looks to New Zealand to figure out whether an 'organic cartel' of international cooperation would be a smart way for farmers to consolidate their resources. Reider concludes that organic farmers and marketers must find a way to combat the cheaper-is-better mentality of supermarkets and chain stores. -- Julie Dolan

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The July/August issue of Academe, a magazine catering to university professors, takes an in-depth look at US military academies. In a synopsis of a two-year, in-house study conducted by two US Air Force Academy, professors  Kathleen Harrington and Jackson A. Niday II write that oaths of office and the US constitution command military officers 'to think more critically, more accurately, and more independently' to ensure academic freedom. Also in the issue, English professor Lucretta A. Flammang examines the role of the humanities in the Coast Guard Academy where she teaches. According to Flammang, the decline of the humanities has coincided with the rise of pop culture images and stereotypes of soldiers as 'an ideal of masculinity that values action over thought.' -- Eric Kelsey

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