Articles by Grist staff

Schoolhouse Rocked

Graduate students holding teaching and research positions at Cornell University announced late last week that they would not join the United Auto Workers, bucking a growing trend toward grad student unionization. According to Allen MacKenzie, co-founder of At What Cost?, a student group opposed to unionizing, many students disliked the UAW’s political views, especially regarding […]

Tripping Out

A government-supported pilot project in Alberta, Canada, is offering companies greenhouse-gas credits for every employee who works from home, in order to reduce emissions associated with commuting. The plan is the first step in an effort to produce a Canadian carbon-credits market, whereby firms that cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be able to sell credits to […]

Sen. Wellstone Killed in Plane Crash

U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) was killed today along with seven others in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. Wellstone, 58, was one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress; he opposed the use of force in Iraq and was a longtime ally to environmentalists, earning a near-perfect 96 percent lifetime score from the Washington, […]

The Savaged Breast

After years of announcing that the war on cancer was being won in the U.S., the National Cancer Institute acknowledged this month that it had previously underestimated the incidence of the disease, and that new diagnoses of at least one variant, breast cancer, have been increasing at a rate of 0.6 percent per year nationwide. […]