Mapping the Anomalous in Caryl Phillips’s “Heartland”

Eugenics and sterilization in the heartland.

Fruit heartland threatened

It has only recently been discovered that the likely origin of some of the world's most important fruit crops, such as apples, apricots and walnuts, lie in a small region of forests in central Asia. The region is home to more than 300 wild fruit and nut species but this unique genetic resource is under major threat, according to a new report which estimated that 90 per cent of this woodland has...

Essays from Its Heartland

The Changing Economy of the Rural Heartland

T he economy of the rural, or nonmetropolitan, Heartland has undergone great change over the past 15 years. Deep recessions in agriculture and energy, restructuring in manufacturing, and the emergence of the service industry are just some of the forces that have reshaped the rural economy of the nation’s midsection. Having shared in this economic transition and now facing a common economic futu...

Mapping anomalous currents in supersymmetric dualities

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