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  • PEWS conference at Clark to focus on workers, global capitalism

    ♦ Wallerstein to give public keynote address, ‘Labor vs. Capital?’ ♦

  • Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

    Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

    There was a time when food was something you ate but rarely pondered. You did not know, or care, where your dinner came from, or how it would interact with your body once it was consumed. That was then. Sure, many folks still eat with abandon, but many others, like the Clarkies profiled on these…

  • ‘The fight is on’: Hayden, Ross lead talk on engagement and citizenry

    The year was 1961, and Tom Hayden had been in jail in the South for participating in civil rights protests when he put pen to paper. What began as a letter to his friends in Students for a Democratic Society blossomed into the blueprint for the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that helped launch the…

  • New book reveals how marriage changes parent-child relationships

    There is an old adage that goes “A daughter is a daughter all of her life, but a son is a son ’til he takes him a wife.” Deborah M. Merrill, associate professor of sociology at Clark University, explores whether or not this saying accurately describes marriage and intergenerational relationships today in her new book, “When Your Children…

  • War against AIDS at a crossroad; status quo won’t do, panelists say

    Experts in the long battle against HIV/AIDS gathered in Tilton Hall on Jan. 19 to offer hope that the world now stands at the midpoint of the disease’s global march, with better days ahead. The speakers were on hand to discuss the findings of the aids2031 consortium, published in the new book “AIDS: Taking a…

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