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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.26
12/27/99 - 01/07/00
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Richard Rodriguez, In A Global Era Why We Hunger To Be Small
By Richard Rodriguez
Date: 01-03-00
A counter-mood is apparent in the country as we enter the new century: a hunger for small, the yearning in a borderless world for an address. PNS associate editor Richard Rodriguez explores where and why this broad middle-class discontent is emerging. Rodriguez, author of "Days of Obligation" and a forthcoming book "Brown," is an essayist for the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer and for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times.
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The Symbolic Animal Throws A Global Party -- Reflections On New Year's 2000
By Walter Truett Anderson
Date: 01-05-00
While the new millennium seems to have entered more softly than expected, the brouhaha about the move to 2000 tells us a great deal about who we are, and suggests a great deal about what we are becoming. PNS associate editor Walter Truett Anderson is the author of "The Future of the Self" (Tarcher Putnam, 1997).
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Time To Pay For Stolen Brains
By Sarita Sarvate
Date: 01-07-00
Recent efforts to make it easier for people with high-tech skills to live and work in the United States are widely seen in terms of benefiting outsiders. But PNS commentator Sarita Sarvate disagrees: imported brains, she says, have played a vital role in industry, and it is now time to think of paying them fairly for their contribution. Sarvate is a nuclear physicist and writer for India Currents and other publications.
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Culinary Secrets From The Julia Child Of Southeast Asian Cuisine
By Andrew Lam
Date: 12-29-99
Saffron 59 Asian fusion cuisine caters to New York's finest. The culinary artist behind this Southeast Asian success story, Irene Khin, says travel -- especially to Asia -- is what keeps her on top of The New York Food chain. Pacific News Service editor, Andrew Lam, caught up with her in Bangkok recently as she meandered her ways through the city's markets and restaurants to practice her art.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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Turn To The Sea--Fish Replace Strawberries As Primary Crop For Mexican Migrants
By Peter S. Cahn
Date: 01-06-00
Farmers in Texas and California have long depended on workers from Mexico at harvest time. But in one small town in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, the favored spot for seasonal work is on water, not land, and much closer to the Arctic Circle than the Tropic of Cancer. PNS commentator Peter S. Cahn is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Dead Whale Speaks Louder Than Words
By Steven Zak
Date: 12-30-99
Environmentalists have made it clear they will be heard in the upcoming national elections, and this is considered a plus for candidate Al Gore. A close look at Gore's actions and philosophy, however, indicates he may not be the champion environmentalists have in mind. Steven Zak is an attorney and writer. He has written about ethics and the environment for many publications including The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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That Daring (But Not Young) Man On The Flying Trapeze
By Eve Pell
Date: 12-28-99
The desire to escape the earth, its gravity, even for a moment, seems as universal as it is unreachable -- which may explain the growing popularity of trapeze workshops. But for Sam Keen, the trapeze is key to an understanding higher still, of how to overcome one's own fears. PNS correspondent Eve Pell writes a monthly column on sports for people over 60 years of age.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Wen Ho Lee Case: Whatever Happened To Due Process?
By George Koo
Date: 01-04-00
Even a mass murderer is accorded more humane treatment than Chinese American scientist Wen Ho Lee, who is accused of mishandling secret computer data, says PNS commentator George Koo. Koo is a member of Committee of 100, a national organization of prominent Chinese Americans.
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Specter Of Dirty War Hangs Over Mexico's Presidential Race
By Kent Paterson
Date: 12-27-99
As Mexico gears up for its 2000 presidential elections, opposition politicians in Guerrero state claim a new counterinsurgency campaign is underway to wipe out political dissidents. Spearheading it is the newly-created Federal Preventive Police (PFP) to which President Clinton recently offered FBI training and assistance. PNS correspondent Kent Paterson is a freelance reporter based in Albuquerque.
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