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...soybean's ascendancy is one of many pieces of a global puzzle that author Raj Patel aims to fit together in his new book Stuffed and Starved - a sweeping look at the development of the international food chain that delivers calories from nation to nation with an alarmingly uneven hand. As its title promises, the book tackles one of the chief dysfunctions of our unique era in alimentary history: that 800 million people are getting too little to eat and are malnourished, while over 1 billion are getting so much they've become overweight or obese...
...industry. (Then there's the story of Ellen G. White, the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, who claimed to have had a vision revealing vegetarianism as the key to longevity - thus making her congregation the "the first white people in the United States to make tofu.") The author also makes no pretence of neutrality: readers are advised to eat locally, organically and sustainably; to support workers' rights to fair wages and debt relief for countries exploited by food-exporting corporations; to participate in community-supported agriculture; and to learn the joys of slow food...
...most buttoned-down of the bunch is James Kilts, a former CEO of Gillette, Nabisco and Kraft and author of Doing What Matters. Befitting his lengthy résumé, which includes teaching at the University of Chicago's business school, Kilts has written a dense, complex book intended for others at the top. His description of starting a job says it all: "Your first day of a new job should be like the first hours of the D-Day landing by the Allies during World War II." In Kilts' book, nonexecutive employees are casts of thousands, not individuals. Kilts bluntly declares...
Although Daniel Radcliffe fans will disagree, “December Boys”—while easy on the eyes—lacks the originality to make it noteworthy. An adaptation of Australian author Michael Noonan’s eponymous text, the film chronicles coming-of-age trials in a familiar light. And while director Ron Hardy gracefully treats the convergence of childhood ideals and adulthood disillusionment, the final package is debilitated by scattered characterization. The movie opens at the chaste, jejune scene of an Australian orphanage home to four self-named December Boys (for their birthdays) linked...
Bestselling author Dave Eggers will share the stage with bands and other artistic luminaries tonight at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston for the concert fundraiser “Revenge of the Book Eaters...