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What Exactly IS Food Safety?
Food safety once seemed like such a
comprehensible topic. It meant washing your produce, cooking your meat well, being careful where you buy your food. However, things aren't quite so straightforward, according to a diverse mix of Washington State University faculty members
cited in this issue's cover story.
POISON OR PLEASURE?
Culture, Risk, and the Quality of Our Food
by Tim Steury
Is food safety a sanitation problem, a biological problem, an evolutionary problem, an agricultural problem, a sociological problem, or a cultural problem? Or is it even a problem?

   — TROUBLE IN JEJUNUM
   — EVOLUTION IN THE BARNYARD
   — NOT YOUR EVERYDAY E. COLI


F E A T U R E S

Laws of Perception
by Brad McCray
A cognitive psychologist explores our mental representations of space and time.

Of Collaboration and the Third Eyelid
by Charlie Powell
Diligent science and practical experience result in a simple test for a disease with ominous implications.


F I E L D    N O T E S

Machu Picchu
by Judy Theodorson
An architect on a pilgrimage traces the elements of composition in Incan cities.


G R A D U A T E    R E S E A R C H  by Kristin Harpster

Better Living Through Microwaves
Group Dynamics and New Food


G A L L E R Y

      Master Gardeners
      Building Cooperation
      Phytoremediation
      Keeping Astronauts Healthy
      Spokane Heart Study
      A Different Kind of Evolution


B O O K S    A N D    O T H E R    P U B L I C A T I O N S

Writing About Nature
Reviewed by Phil Druker
 Landscape of the Heart by Stephen Lyons
Valley Walking by Robert Schnelle
Edge of Tomorrow, An Arctic Year by Sam Wright
Wild to the Last by Charles Pezeshki


I N S I D E    B A C K    C O V E R

Shanghai Architecture  by Paul Lee














                        








          



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