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...rare for a writer to be so defined by one book. You've written eight novels, seven books of poetry, a significant amount of nonfiction, and yet you're so known by this one book. Is that frustrating? Of course it's frustrating. But one realizes it's also blessing to have a book that is so widely known - even if misinterpreted - and a book that makes your name. It's rare. You have to feel that it's a blessing and a curse because it is. Whoever promised us we'd be understood anyway...
...most efficient way to shrink the carbon footprint of your menu is to eat less meat, especially beef. Raising cattle takes a lot more energy than growing the equivalent amount of grains, fruits or vegetables: most produce requires about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy to cultivate per 1 calorie of food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1. What's more, the majority of cattle in the U.S. are reared on grain and loads of it--670 million tons in 2002--and the fertilizer used to grow that feed creates separate environmental problems...
That one step can make an enormous impact on the atmosphere and your arteries. A 2005 study by the University of Chicago found that one person switching from a red-meat-based diet to vegetarianism could save about the same amount of CO2 as trading in a Toyota Camry for a Toyota Prius. There's no shortage of evidence that reducing red meat--Americans eat more than 60 lb. of dead cow annually--is also good for your health. CSPI estimates that replacing one 3.5-oz. serving of beef, one egg and a 1-oz. serving of cheese each...
Biologists have documented a vast amount of gene-swapping among single-celled organisms - which happen to make up most of the diversity of life on Earth. There are 10,000 species of bacteria in a spoonful of dirt, twice as many species as all the mammals in the world. In the genome of a typical microbe, most of the genes hopped from one species to another at some point in the history of life. In some ways, the history of life is indeed like a tree, sprouting new branches. But in some ways, it's also like a tapestry, emerging...
...with his pals from the improv group On Thin Ice or performing in comic operas with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players; he’s also been spotted performing in several Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club shows. Polk—actor, singer, writer—has contributed an enormous amount of his time at Harvard to the arts. For Polk, theater isn’t just a passion; it’s an incredible community. The San Diego native first found his passion for acting when he began to perform in his local youth theater group...