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...Jungle told some ugly truths about how America produces its meat. In the century that followed, things got much better, and in some ways much worse. The U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high cost to the environment, animals and humans. Those hidden prices are the creeping erosion of our fertile farmland, cages for egg-laying chickens so packed that the birds can't even raise their wings and the scary rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among farm animals. Add to the price...
...that has almost no oxygen and therefore almost no sea life. Because of the dead zone, the $2.8 billion Gulf of Mexico fishing industry loses 212,000 metric tons of seafood a year, and around the world, there are nearly 400 similar dead zones. Even as we produce more high-fat, high-calorie foods, we destroy one of our leanest and healthiest sources of protein. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...shots, fewer than 40% of Americans get them in any one year - never mind that flu kills some 36,000 of us annually. But this flu season is likely to be different. Thanks to the new H1N1/09 virus, to which almost none of us are immune, flu anxiety is high - and demand for the new vaccine should be too. Washington is now gearing up to respond, hoping to inoculate millions of Americans and blunt the severity of the first pandemic in four decades...
...what about everyone else? In his new book, Acceptance, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David L. Marcus follows Gwyeth "Smitty" Smith, a public school guidance counselor in a New York City suburb who has a unique touch. Through Smitty's story, Marcus shows us the uniquely American madness that high-school juniors and seniors must endure before making the leap to university. Marcus spoke to TIME about what makes a great guidance counselor, Ivy League obsessions and how the recession is affecting college admissions...
...next couple of years, we have huge graduating high-school classes across the country. More than that, in a lot of middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods, there's a fixation on 40 or 50 so-called "top colleges." So you have extraordinary numbers of students jockeying for the same places in certain schools. I think the tough economy makes a lot of parents more eager to latch onto a brand...