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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
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...