Food & Health – Week of 12.19.10

By David Liechty Gold and silver coin conforming to the Act of 1792 formed the basis of the US monetary system for over seventy years.

By The Economist The announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification

From “Planting Seeds” in The Guardian in January: “Bill and Melinda Gates hate controversy, but the world’s top philanthropists do seem to be moving ever

By Chris Serres Local foundations are fighting Wells Fargo in court, saying it lied about safety of investments made before market plunge. For years, some