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...stride as they enter the middle four chapters, addressing air pollution, water pollution, climate change, and energy generation, respectively. When considering air pollution, the Kerrys write eloquently about environmental injustice—the prevalence of health-risking pollution, in poor, minority neighborhoods.On water pollution, they show an ability to dig into unglamorous, but highly relevant, issues, such as the pollution caused by factory farms. And in their chapter on climate change, the authors provide a Cliff’s Notes of Gore’s documentary before lambasting the Bush administration for its willful ignorance of the science behind climate...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kerry’s Book Full of Fire But Not Policy | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...fact that there were local bugs, now unidentifiable, to which the local people had immunity but Europeans did not. The locals had long since learned to drink springwater rather than river water to stay healthy. The newcomers didn't look for springs and didn't bother to dig a well until early in 1609 and instead drank James River water, which was both brackish and polluted. Most important, in the colony's early years, which were especially dry, the Powhatan knew how to live directly off the land and waterways as expert foragers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Side | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...colonists were ill-prepared for life in Virginia and, at least initially, had no crops to harvest. So Kelso was not surprised to dig up the goods they offered the Indians in exchange for food. Among them: Venetian glass beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Archaeology: Eureka! | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...clothes on! I’m eating my lunch. gfukdsagfiuwegvfiusdgvbiusdgbvuisdtvguisdgvbujxbgvijhdagvuihxbvjcbdjvgjIDB DBNABDJAB CJKABJKJBASCBKAJBCKJACA. Papers. Owl...please tell your naked inductees to go put clothes on. The fence ain’t that high. Cute red head Irish boy in my section, I just wanted to let you know... I really dig thin boys! Got a bone to pick? A friend to ridicule? A crush to notify? A need for a public forum? Holla at FMholler@gmail.com. We’ll publish it all. Word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: holler! | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...lunch and they were easier on him. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas simply ran down the list of ousted U.S. attorneys, asking why they had been fired. Gonzales delivered his well-practiced responses. Sen. Orrin Hatch provided the kind of leading questions that are designed to help a witness dig himself out of hole. Gonzales tentatively took the opportunity. After a mid-morning break Sen. Cornyn, an old colleague of Gonzales' from Texas, was equally deferential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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