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Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America With Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, [...]

Gary Kremen sat in his San Francisco office on a winter afternoon, shouting on his cell phone and taking frequent, inexplicable swigs from a bottle of lemon juice. Kremen is [...]

'IN CHARITY,' Francis Bacon wrote, 'there is no excess.' But then Bacon never saw Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which since 2003 has been meting out garish and supersized acts of [...]

THE NATURAL OLYMPIA is one of the pharmaceutical-free-bodybuilding circuit's premier contests, and even without steroids, its competitors look less like men than ideas of men as imagined by comic book [...]

Protest of the Year When Senate majority leader and Princeton alum Bill Frist threatened to go nuclear in the battle over judicial appointments, students at his alma mater responded by [...]

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash By Elizabeth Royte. Little, Brown. $24.95. Recently, a new class of muckrakers has investigated the hidden infrastructures that provide us with the [...]

This article introduces Gary Kremen, the founder of the Internet Web site Match.com in San Francisco, California, who is making a stand for the use of solar energy. Kremen has started the company Clean Power Finance, which has the goal to bring solar power to the U.S. mass market and not just to those who have been dubbed "green liberals." INSET: Search for the solar grail.

The article presents an essay on the reality television program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The show, which typically builds a new home for underprivileged families, is criticized for its product placement and its ethos of materialism solving all problems. The author considers the social aspects of the show including its promotion of consumption and luxury. The author also believes that the show concocts schlock out of actual hardship and genuine charity.

In this article the author examines the link between meat-eating and successful bodybuilding. He notes that body builders consume a great deal of meat in order to maintain their protein, but states that the practice is inefficient and wasteful. He examines aspects of bodybuilding through the use of a vegan diet.

Presents an update on student activism in the U.S. as of September 2005. Information on the filibuster staged by students at Princeton University in New Jersey in response to the threat issued by Senate majority leader Bill Frist regarding the battle over judicial appointments; Growth of the Students Taking Action Now: Darfur organization cofounded by Nate Wright to address government inaction in the genocide in Sudan; Significance of the decision of the fast-food chain Taco Bell to increase sub-poverty wages of Florida laborers who pick tomatoes following a nationwide boycott to schools.