Magzine Jan-Feb 2005

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Idea of the year

Take away corporations' privilege to offer shareholders limited financial liability The most logical thing in the world

 

Dance with your shadow

Carnival fills the human need for a time-out. A reflection upon a worldwide historical phenomenon.

 Guess what’s coming to dinner?

A new film explores unsavory questions about genetically modified food

 

“Hey guys, wake up!”

Writer Sagarika Ghose shakes up India's social and political conventions

 

How I lost faith: How the end of religion can be the beginning of God

Religion seems to get in the way of our true connection with God. It seems only to connect people with others looking for the one pure faith, notes Ode senior editor Tijn Touber, which leads to the formation of more sects. That's why he recently severed his years-long connection with the spiritual community he belonged to--an Indian Raja Yoga institute--and now believes that spirituality's future may depend on dismantling the houses of the holy.

 

Iran’s soccer revolution

Women who dared to celebrate a World Cup victory may eventually change the face of the Middle East

 

I heard a calling from the vegetables

French master chef Alain Passard is reinventing haute cuisine from the ground up

 

Local matters

How Dooney's Caf

 

One last thing…

"you can live to be 120 years old"

 

The American dream vs. the European dream

For many people around the world, the American dream means prosperity and progress. But how is the dream holding up these days?

 

The time has come

We have the technological means to solve global warming. What are we waiting for?

 

What way for the USA?

Probing the mystery of Bush's second term.

 

Who owes whom?

The new idea of ecological debt rearranges relations between the global South and North

 

Why not do something legendary?

It's time for leaders to inspire us