Cover Story
Full circle

by Tim Steury

Steve Jones and Tim Murray want to make the immense area of eastern Washington, or at least a good chunk of it, less prone to blow, less often bare, even more unchanging. The way they'll do this is to convince a plant that is content to die after it sets seed in late summer that it actually wants to live.

Features

Short Shakespeareans

by Pat Caraher

Sherry Schreck has built her life and reputation on her love of children and Shakespeare and her unbridled imagination.

All that remains: The Lewis & Clark Trail

by Ken Olsen
photography by Greg MacGregor

Nearly two-thirds of the Lewis and Clark Trail is under man-made reservoirs. Another one-quarter is buried under subdivisions, streets, parks, banks, and other modern amenities. Almost none of the original landscape is intact. No one appreciates this contrast like author and historian Martin Plamondon II, who has reconciled the explorers' maps with the modern landscape.

Listening to his heart

by Beth Luce

As a student at WSU in the late '60s, Ken Alhadeff questioned authority with zeal. "I was part of a group of folks that marched down the streets of Pullman to President Terrell's house with torches, demanding that the Black Studies Program not be eliminated. It was a war between us and those insensitive, bureaucratic regents," says Alhadeff . . . who is now a regent.

Be nice

by Megan Guido

GRACe examines the many aspects of gender.

A quick test for a killer

by Mary Aegerter

While Listeria monocytogenes accounts for only 1/100th of 1 percent of all food-borne illnesses in the United States, it's responsible for a whopping 28 percent of annual deaths. Development of a quick test for the pathogen promises to drastically reduce that statistic.

A vision thing: Diagnostic tools and a vaccine for paratuberculosis

by Mary Aegerter

An environmental mystery is solved, but answer points to larger concerns

by Tim Steury

Racial profiling in Washington-
policy and perception

by Pat Caraher

Panoramas

Tracking the Cougars