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...warmer areas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet??s species from global warming.” These tragic effects, however, in a twist of cruel irony, will likely impact most strongly those who have had the smallest hand in bringing them about. The wealthy, industrialized West, meanwhile, will largely be able to afford to avoid, adapt...
...book the impressive statistic that the U.S. has more Chinese restaurants than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Kentucky Fried Chickens combined. What is it about Chinese food that makes it such a substantive part of the American diet? JL: Well, it’s the most prolific food on the planet??served on all seven continents, and in space! There’s thermo-stabilized sweet-and-sour pork. So it’s not just Americanized; it’s Indianified, Koreanized, Mexicanized. Chinese food is really more of a philosophy of cooking than...
...secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet facility converting illegally hunted whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm, evading the KGB and the Soviet Navy in his subsequent escape. Actor Martin Sheen calls him “one of the gutsiest guys on the planet?? and the Dalai Lama has gifted him a statue of Hayagriva, a wrathful Hindu deity who strikes down his evil foes...
...DIFFERENT PLANET?...
...rovers, the Phoenix lander and the Mars Science Laboratory, will be landing on Mars in the near future for evidence of the planet??s suitability for life...