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...Rifkin, civilization began a long slide downhill when 18th century British gentry acquired a taste for fat-marbled beef and proceeded to spread that proclivity, like a plague, throughout the Western world. Rifkin's real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth...
...Bush and Clinton plans are strikingly similar, and both still see the planet as a dangerous place where the occasional use of American force will likely be necessary for decades to come. From there, their prescriptions for dealing with the post-cold war world depart radically. Bush regularly trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev...
...think I was very well qualified to do this article because [at Georgetown] I suffered through some of the worst food on the planet," Calta said. "We had mystery meat and army food...
...watchers are probably in for a long wait. The last time such a cataclysmic collision took place was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs still walked the planet...
WordsWorth Readings--presents Dr. Helen Caldicott, co-founder of the Physicians for Social Responsibility on her new book, "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth." Tuesday, April 7. 5:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square...