My Suicide Returns to Me Each Year

ME and My Shadow

Everyone Exposed to Methyleugenol Whether you intend to or not, chances are you will consume approximately 6 micro-grams of methyleugenol (ME) today, according to a report in this month's issue by Dana B. Barr and colleagues of a study designed to measure ME in human blood _ serum [EHP 108:323-328]. ME is a compound that occurs naturally in a variety of spices and herbs, including clove oil, nu...

See me through my eyes

What my cancer taught me.

Animal Cognition: Bring Me My Spear

Chimpanzees regularly hunt mammals, but use only their hands and teeth: for the first time, chimpanzees have now been found to make tools in order to spear mammalian prey.

Sociotherapy took me out of my solitude.

I am fifty-eight years old. I have been a widow since 1995. Because of the ethnic conflicts that reigned in Rwanda over a period of many years, I grew up and lived in different neighbouring countries. I returned to Rwanda in 1992, at the age of thirty-eight. I was born into a family of six children, four of whom died during the genocide. Only one sister and I are still alive. I married my husba...