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Compare, for instance, how apps spread on Facebook: When a user installs an application, that action is communicated to his friends via a news feed. That won't happen on LinkedIn. And likewise, if you recommend a book to one of your LinkedIn contacts via the "Reading List by Amazon" application, the contact doesn't need to install the Amazon app to get the recommendation...
...Feeding animals for meat production requires growing ten times as many crops as producing directly for a plant-based diet. The land needed for these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...
...opium trade visible just over the precipice. Deeti, an Indian peasant whose husband is an addict, spends her days tending the poppy fields that the sahibs (rulers of the province) forced her and those like her to cultivate. Where once they had planted crops that would feed their families, they now tend waving fields of blossoms that will one day become the opium manufactured in the local factory and shipped to greedy merchants in Britain and China.Also introduced in this first novel, although not developed enough to make it satisfying in its own right, is a golden thread of mysticism...
...Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis, better known as the one-man band, Girl Talk. The musical misfit and laptop magician broke into the mainstream with his 2006 hit album Night Ripper, whose 16 tracks sampled more than 150 artists, from Abba to 2 Live Crew to Aerosmith. His latest album, Feed the Animals, is already available online; the CD is out November 3rd. TIME spoke with Gillis about the art (and science) of sampling and what it's like to create a house party on stage...
...loss of jobs. “These are gross exaggerations,” said Gary Guccione, spokesman for the American Greyhound Council, an industry trade group. “Anyone can go into the racing kennels and see their daily lifestyle, the schedule of what they do, the feed and the exercise.” “The care that is administered to them is better than that of virtually any other animal,” he added. Gary Temple, track manager of Raynham-Taunton, echoed similar sentiments. He said that of the 64,316 Massachusetts dog race starts...