White Man

The new Sierra is on newsstands and it's too cool for school. The November/December issue focuses on education, green colleges and environmental careers. It's an all-around great issue, but the best line in it has to go to the fifth-grader from Seattle's John Muir Elementary who, asked what he knows about the school's namesake, replies: "He's Caucasian, and he's dead."

Read the rest of the story ("City Kids Unplugged," by Dashka Slater) here. Award-winning Sierra is free to members.