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by Sr. Mary Alice McCabe SNDdeN Last Fall when Kathryn Yanik,-E-W JPIC Director and Sabrina Harper, E-W Vocation Promotion Director visited our Notre Dame land in Ipswich and its Cuvilly Arts & Earth Center, they saw this land as a magnificent gift of the Creator - the perfect place to call together a group of women seeking a more direct contact with nature to “deepen how to live, pray and care for the Earth.” In this sacred space, women could explore their shared call to

by Gray Sawyer A large tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) munching on your tomato plant might look a little menacing. But look closer, and the hornworm reveals something far more interesting: it's an integral part of a living food web, in which even the plants we grow for food provide habitat and resources for a wide range of species. The tobacco hornworm has two particularly important ecological paths. If it escapes parasitism and completes its development, it becomes a Caroli