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...during the writing of his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [Sept. 8]. He said, ?It scared the hell out of me.? It seems Wolfe has inadvertently verified his assertion that the drug culture ?inevitably leads to a total lack of intellect.? Or maybe he just forgot. Chase Martin, Colleyville, Texas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...install compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or improve your insulation, but unless you intend to hunt wild buffalo and boar, there's really no green way to get meat - although organic, locally farmed beef or chicken is better than its factory-raised equivalents. The geophysicists Gidon Eschel and Pamela Martin have estimated that if every American reduced meat consumption by just 20%, the greenhouse gas savings would be the same as if we all switched from a normal sedan to a hybrid Prius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meat: Making Global Warming Worse | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

Sure, there are some true grotesqueries to be found in the book. There's a wittily observed chapter on the weirdness that is Turkmenistan, with statues and giant photographs of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov everywhere: "In some he looked like a fat and grinning Dean Martin wearing a Super Bowl ring." As someone who's been to most of the places Theroux describes, that's the kind of sentence I want to read; the kind that makes me think, "Exactly!" (and "I wish I'd written that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Theroux: Back on the Tracks | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...automakers say they have a commitment from the Democratic Party's Congressional leadership to take up the enabling legislation when both the House and Senate reconvenes on Sept. 9. "I wouid be loathe to put a timetable to this," says GM's Martin. "But we would like to see it in place by the end of the session. We are attaching a large sense of urgency to it." The Democratic leadership is considering attaching the loan guarantees to either a new economic stimulus package that Congress is expected to take up this month or even to the appropriation bill need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carmakers Push Congress for Loans | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...recruitment efforts, as well as the ways in which Harvard’s past experience as well as best practices elsewhere can help inform our future practice,” Faust wrote in an e-mail to faculty and senior-level administration.The committee will be led by Ralph C. Martin II, the former Suffolk County district attorney and currently a managing partner at the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen.Faust wrote that the review was prompted in part by an incident that occurred Aug. 8 in which HUPD officers, responding to a call, confronted a person attempting to remove a lock...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Faces Race Probe | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

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