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Articles in March-April, 2009 issue of Mother Jones

• Tray chic: changing college cuisine, one dining hall at a time
  by Josh Harkinson
• Trouble on the limpopo: Mozambique has survived colonialism and civil war—but it may be no match for the ethanol industry
  by Adam Welz
• Veg-o-might: do you need to eat meat to get ripped?
  by Jon Mooallem
• Wake up and smell the fine print
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• You are getting verrry hopeful
  by Dave Gilson
• Fare thee welfare
  by Frances Robinson; Terry Lamb; Skipper G. Stipemaas
• Black and white and read all over
  by C. Victor Gabriel
• What's in an apostrophe?
  by Alexis Fitts
• Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
  by Dave Gilson
• Fair trade coffee: is it really fair to the farmer?
  by Hannah Wallace
• Weapons of Mass Instruction
• Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
• Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba: A Memoir
• A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil
• Welcome to Mali
  by Jon Young
• Pouring biofuel on the fire: hunger. Corruption. Bankruptcy. Other than that, the green-fuel boom has been a smashing success
  by Jesse Finfrock
• Trading up: how Obama can fix the climate, raise billions for clean tech, and send you a fat check
  by Kevin Drum
• Out of mind, out of sight: inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot
  by Eugene Richards
• Habeas Corpus
  by Jon Young
• Editors' note
  by Monika Bauerlein; Clara Jeffery
• Brush Cat: On Trees, the Wood Economy, and the Most Dangerous Job in America
  by Kiera Butler
• Best case scenario
  by Kiera Butler
• Dave Eggers: the studs factor
  by Justine Sharrock
• It's Not Me, It's You
  by Jon Young
• Goodnight Oslo
  by Jon Young
• Fixing Wall Street
  by Lewis Bottomly; Peter D'Entremont
• Raising the bar
  by Leroy J. Pletten
• Dawn of a newt age
  by David Corn
• Inside audition
  by Paolo Picones
• Taser's delirium defense
  by Bernice Yeung
• Rocket man: a lobbyist lifts off
• Service gone wild
  by Jesse Finfrock
• Slash and burn: how biofuels could destroy the planet even faster than petroleum
  by Heather Rogers
• Straight Outta Mogadishu: anti-Gangsta K'naan
  by Eamon Kircher-Allen
• The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution
  by Elizabeth Gettelman
• Sustainable Investing
• Food Energetics: The Spiritual, Emotional, and Nutritional Power of What We Eat
• Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
  by Celia Perry
• Food, Inc
  by Tamar Adler
• Foodie, beware: is your farmers market just a grocery store with a taco stand and a didgeridoo?
  by Daniel Duane
• There you go again
  by Robert Thatch; Philip Ratcliff
• Their own private Africa
  by Bruce Falconer; Daniel Schulman
• Meet the parents: Nageshwar Rao and Sivagama say a boy being raised in the Midwest was stolen from them in the slums of Chennai. But the only parents the child knows say the Indian cops have it wrong. Confronting the dark side of overseas adoption
  by Scott Carney
• Spoiled: our industrial food system is rotten to the core. But heirloom arugula won't save us. Here's what will
  by Paul Roberts
• The purpose-driven wife: teaching women to submit to their husbands, for the love of Christ
  by Kathryn Joyce
• Gold member: why won't senate majority leader Harry Reid stop the $100 billion giveaway to the country's dirtiest industry?
  by Josh Harkinson
• The saline solution: can this plant feed the world?
  by Josh Harkinson
• Inside the green zone: backyard farms, sidewalk crops, and other ideas for urban growth
  by Josh Harkinson
• This little piggy goes home: a kinder, gentler, and more convenient abattoir
  by Bonnie Azab Powell
• Michael Pollan fixes dinner: America's favorite food intellectual talks with MoJo editor Clara Jeffery about ethanol, the carrot lobby, and secularizing food
  by Clara Jeffery
• Beets in the hood: meet Milwaukee's veggie genius
  by Tracie McMillan
• The trickle-up economy: who's laughing—and crying—all the way to the bank
  by Dave Gilson