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Food for Thought
The strangest news items about organic food have been popping up. It isn’t good for you after all. It’s full of bacteria and insect parts. You folks who pay a high price for it are not only suckers, you’re risking your health. Toxic tomato? Not if it’s organic. ABC’s John Stossel recently interviewed Dennis Avery, […]
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And wishing I'd left the car at home
Editor’s note: Actor and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., journeyed last month in a natural-gas car from his hometown of Los Angeles to Des Moines, Iowa, site of the nation’s first political caucuses, to raise the profile of clean-car technology. Here he relates his (mis)adventures. Ed — happier in a tree than in a car. […]
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Paper Chase
a 50 percent increase in worldwide paper consumption is expected by 2010 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers 700 pounds of paper are consumed by the average American each year 10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday cards 3 cubic yards of landfill space can be […]
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fallout Shelter
Civilization did not collapse into computational confusion on New Year’s Eve. The worst Y2K glitch I experienced was finding all my email files suddenly dated 1944, and that was easily fixed. What happened? Or rather, what didn’t happen? There is a self-congratulatory answer to that question: We were clever and fast and rich enough to […]
