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America's Age of Empire (page 34)

Read the complete National Security Strategy, which outlines the Bush administration's foreign policy, at www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html. "Rebuilding America's Defenses," a 2000 report written by Paul Wolfowitz and others who went on to become high-ranking administration officials, reads like a blueprint for Bush's defense policy. Download the report at www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericas Defenses.pdf, or contact the 2000 Project of the New American Century at (202) 2934983 or 1150 17th Street NW, Suite 510, Washington, DC 20036.

For a critique of the National Security Strategy, review a forum of foreign-policy scholars sponsored by the Brookings Institution at www.brook.edu /dybdocroot/comm/events/20021004.pdf, or contact Brookings at (202) 797-6105 (1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036). In The Vital Center (Houghton Mifflin 1949), historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. laid out a liberal foreign-policy agenda, arguing that American liberals needed "a resurgence of the democratic faith."

Unhappy Meals (page 40)

For information about the National School Lunch Program, which is up for reauthorization this year, visit the USDA website at www.fns.usda.gov/cnd /Lunch/default.htm, or contact the Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Division, 3101 Park Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302. To read more about the USDA's approach to child nutrition, including nutrient-based versus food-based menu planning, see the Healthy School Meals Resource System at http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which advocates healthier school lunches containing less meat and dairy, can be reached at (202) 686-2210 (www.pcrm.org or 5100 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20016).

Chaos and Constitution (page 46)

In his biography of Hugo Chavez, In the Shadow of the Liberator (Verso Books 2001), veteran Latin America correspondent Richard Gott examines the rise of the Venezuelan president. The Bolivarian Fund, a nonprofit organization created by Chavez supporters, offers a pro-government outlook at www.bolivarianfund.org/english/index.html, and political analyst Francisco Toro provides an opposition weblog at http://caracaschronicles .blogspot.com. Venezuela's new constitution is available in Spanish at www.georgetown.edu/pdba /Constitutions/Venezuela/ven1999.html.

Culture Change (page 52)

Stonyfield Farm describes its approach to business at www.stonyfield.com; contact the company at 10 Burton Drive, Londonderry, NH 03053 or (800) PRO-COWS. The Social Venture Network (www.svn.org) promotes sustainable business through its "triple bottom line" program for "people, planet, and profits." Contact the group at (415) 561-6501 or P.O. Box 29221, San Francisco, CA 94129. Coop America encourages consumers to effect social change through purchases and investments; learn about socially responsible investing and starting a green business at www.coopamerica.org, or contact the group at (202) 872-5334 or 1612 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006.

Out of Madness, a Matriarchy (page 58)

For more information about the government of post-genocide Rwanda, visit www.rwandal.com. The Center for Development Information and Evaluation offers reports on women's organizations in Rwanda at www.genderreach.com/updates /1101conference.htm. The International Women's Democracy Center works with nonprofit groups and community leaders to increase women's political participation; contact the center at (202) 530-0563 (www.iwdc.org or 1730 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Suite 715, Washington, DC 20036).

Promised Land (page 64)

For government studies on the decline in family farms, visit the USDA's Economic Research Service at www.ers.usda.gov/Features/farmbill/. The Environmental Working Group tracks the effects of farm subsidies on agriculture at www.ewg.org/issues /home.php?i=3; contact the group at (202) 667-6982 (1436 U Street NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20009). The Land Loss Prevention Project is a nonprofit law firm devoted to saving family farms nationwide; read about its cases at www.landloss .org; contact the firm at (919) 682-5969 or P.O. Box 179, Durham, NC 27702.

Deflowering Ecuador (page 24)

For information on the Ecuadorian flower industry, including the health of its workers, read the International Labor Organization's report at www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/papers /ecuadflo/index.htm. Or buy your valentine roses approved by the Flower Label Program, which certifies greenhouse conditions, by visiting www.flower-label-program.org or contacting the organization at 49-0-21144-13-88 (FLP Office c/o BGI, Julicher Str. 32, 40477 Dusseldorf, Germany).

Have Tools, Will Travel (page 28)

To hit the road with the Care-A-Vanners, visit Habitat for Humanity at www.habitat.org/gv /rv.html or call (229) 924-6935, extension 2446. The RV-free can locate their local Habitat affiliate at www.habitat.org/local.

Superfund Man (page 20)

Learn more about the work of the Edison Wetlands Association at www.edisonwetlands.org or contact the group at (732) 661-1660 (4055 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837). View the Environmental Protection Agency's fact sheet on Edison and other Superfund sites at www.epa.gov /superfund/sites/locate/cheminsect.htm.