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...person, or would you like to be one? Welcome to the club. Thirty-four percent of American households include at least one cat, which adds up to 90 million pet kitties owned in the U.S. If you're thinking about getting a cat - or want to know more about the one you've got - the new book The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know (Gotham) is an excellent place to start. Author Tracie Hotchner is one of the leading experts of the feline world. Her popular radio show, Cat Chat, which airs Wednesdays on Sirius radio, celebrates...
...Statistics are never as visceral as firsthand experience. It’s one thing to know that 300 million Chinese adults are either tobacco smokers or are exposed to cigarette smoke on a daily basis, with 40 percent of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. It’s another thing to walk inside any Internet café—which is the only affordable way to access the Internet for most Chinese—and choke from all the tobacco constantly being devoured by computer game addicts. Urban environments were so inundated with smoke that I could smell tobacco...
...China also rates domestic water quality on a scale from grade I through V, with grade V being the most polluted (unsuitable for even agricultural or industrial purposes). According to the Water Environment Partnership in Asia, 61.9 percent of water is Grade IV or worse in China’s seven major river basins, with 38.1 percent of water hitting Grade V or Grade...
...government has unfortunately espoused for much of the last decade. China’s last major infrastructural project—the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—was finished in May 2006. Designed to control flooding and provide electricity to three percent of the nation’s inhabitants, it has even been touted by Forbes as one of the modern wonders of the world...
...According to recent polls President Bush is remaining steady at a 29 percent approval rating. His counterparts in the U.S. Congress fare even worse at an abysmal 14 percent. American’s aren’t necessarily clamoring to hear anything from an inept and ineffectual president and a Congress. So maybe Gore really is onto something...