Perspectives, Spring 2001


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RESEARCH SURVEY
	Annual Reckoning • Relationships on the Record • Fish with Tans • alt.news • Artists in the Camera's Eye • Peace and Poetry
COVER STORY
	Home-Grown: Revitalizing Rural America from the Ground Up A five-year project explores the ties that bind agriculture and rural communities—and develops strategies for keeping both viable.
FEATURE STORIES
	Digging for Ginseng's Secrets Ginseng shows promise against breast and prostate cancer in early lab studies. But will it pan out? An SIUC physiologist and her students look for answers. Consumed with Culture Television producer Jan Thompson wears many hats in making PBS documentaries on food and cultures around the world. Small Worlds: Safeguarding Carbon at the Nanoscale Nano-sized ceramic crystals can keep carbon composites—like those used for aircraft brakes—from burning at high temperatures.
SIGHT LINES
	Subterranean Sex The secrets of the whisk fern, an early land plant.
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