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...resulted in millions of acres of grassland being abandoned or converted - along with vast swaths of forest - into profitable cropland for livestock feed. "Much of the carbon footprint of beef comes from growing grain to feed the animals, which requires fossil-fuel-based fertilizers, pesticides, transportation," says Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Grass-fed beef has a much lighter carbon footprint." Indeed, although grass-fed cattle may produce more methane than conventional ones (high-fiber plants are harder to digest than cereals, as anyone who has felt the gastric effects of eating broccoli or cabbage can attest...
...more dense the walking becomes with multiple meanings, until it's a pulsating black hole at the center of the novel. It could stand for depression, mania, lust, rage, any alien element that lives within a marriage and tries to tear it apart. It could stand for the author's compulsion to write...
...coastal scale, it is limiting the industrial harvest of the fish in Chesapeake Bay, hard hit of late by dead zones. "The devastation of the marine environment has to be taken into account," says H. Bruce Franklin, a professor of American studies at Rutgers University and the author of a recent book on menhaden, The Most Important Fish in the Sea. (See TIME's photo-essay "Scenes from the Tuna Trade...
Morgan is the author of 20 books of poetry, nonfiction and fiction and a former editor in chief of Ms. magazine
...Despite the challenges of the business, it's a good time to be an author in India, says Malhotra. "They now have so many options to be published." That's exactly what aspiring author Satyajit Sarna is banking on as he sizes up the festival crowd, looking for his big break. But figuring out how to become the next Indian literary star isn't easy. "My book is a dark coming of age story where nothing really works out for anyone," he says. "I don?t even know if there?s a market for that...