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...paragraph was the ultimate atheistic tweak of the nose: "a disembodied digital intelligence" may survive to note "an unimaginably vast, cold, dark and profoundly lonely place." Did the writer experience a jolt of perverse, sadistic joy in writing these depressing words? Shame on all of you for your pseudoscientific Chicken Littleism. LYNNE PERILLI Southbury, Conn...
...rice on his 8 hectares. In front of his clapboard home are eight neatly cut sections of cement sewer pipe. His future is in those tubes: two months ago, Tongdaeng and the 84 families in the village began raising crickets as an enterprise. With minimal investment for sewer pipes, chicken feed and breeding crickets, and help from university entomologists and a self-sufficiency project sponsored by the royal family, the village will be able to propagate 3-5 kg of crickets in each tube every 45 days. Tongdaeng figures he'll make $900 this year, about what he made from...
...First Lady arranged the festivities, and guests included childhood friends, senior staff members and college fraternity brothers. The menu was appropriately all-American: Fried chicken, potato salad and corn bread...
Each week his public-radio show This American Life chooses a subject and invites writers to expatiate personal stories on that theme. Glass once did three hours on chickens. The piece de resistance was a memoir of an Israeli chicken kibbutz. The experience not only revealed the storyteller's true sexual orientation, but showed that even immersion in the hell of the mass poultered won't turn one off the bird. "Oh no," he said. "You'll still eat chicken, and you'll chew real slow...
...supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian than tandoori chicken...