UCSC Review Magazine
Spring 2004

 

UCSC Review - Spring 2004

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Cover Story

As a leader of the state's environmental justice movement, UCSC's Manuel Pastor documents how polluting industries locate a disproportionate share of their facilities in minority neighborhoods—and the toll this practice is taking on the people who live there. Read more.

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Breaking the Silence

A widely praised book by faculty member Tricia Rose begins to break down a culture of silence that has prevented many African American women from speaking openly about sex, love, and relationships—and, in the process, may help explain their increased risk of AIDS/HIV.

Photo: Jim Mackenzie

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The Geneticist & the Biochemist

Two versions of a parable, written by geneticist William Sullivan and biochemist Douglas Kellogg, have become legendary among students at UCSC and elsewhere for the way the fictional stories portray the rapidly evolving techniques used in biomedical research.

Photo: Jim Mackenzie

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Fair-Trade Coffee: Is It Working?

A doctoral candidate in environmental studies, Chris Bacon is doing fieldwork in northern Nicaragua, where he is finding that the fair-trade movement is having a beneficial effect on the lives and livelihoods of the region's many coffee-growing families.

Photo: Simon Bujold

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Unfair Exposure

As a leader of the state's environmental justice movement, UCSC's Manuel Pastor documents how polluting industries locate a disproportionate share of their facilities in minority neighborhoods—and the toll this practice is taking on the people who live there.

Photo: Ben Balagot

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