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...Feeding animals for meat production requires growing ten times as many crops as producing directly for a plant-based diet. The land needed for these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...
...climate change research in the Amazon rainforest and collected coral samples from the Great Barrier Reef this summer? That’s cool, I guess. But I got to be a Professional Television Watcher...
...Daily Show helped your book? The day I went on The Daily Show, the book had an Amazon ranking of 1400. The next day my publisher called me to say, "Have you taken a look at the Amazon rankings?" You know something has happened when your publisher calls. Usually it's the author who calls and says, "Did you see? My book went from 643 to 627, think we should order more copies?" I looked, and the book was at Number 14. Later it went up to 7. And then came the Mac-PC ads, and I was torn immediately...
...onscreen magnifying glass, which lets you zoom in on text you want to edit. Otherwise, the functional differences between the phones were either inconsequential or improved in the G1. I thought I would miss Apple's iTunes, but downloading music on the G1, from Amazon's MP3 store, worked just fine and none of the songs were copy protected. And I definitely did not miss having to sync my phone with a computer to transfer applications, download songs or update my operating system - something you often wind up doing with the iPhone. The G1, in contrast, is its own self...
...Midterms are in a week, and Amazon has yet to ship your books (and/or you have yet to order them...