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...come up with is of an almost eerily boring individual, an emotional recluse and a relentless workaholic whom a colleague once labeled a robo-comic. The book suffers from a total lack of access to the man and his famous co-stars, as well as from Oppenheimer's egregious sub-tabloid prose--he wouldn't know an elegant phrase if it sued him for libel. "I'm barely interested in my own life," Seinfeld once remarked to a reporter. "I don't know how you could be." If we are to judge by this biography, Jerry had a point...
...such as AIDS, malaria, cholera and tuberculosis are having a Malthusian effect. Rural-land degradation is pushing people into cities, where crowded, polluted living conditions create the perfect breeding grounds for sickness. Worldwide, at least 68 million are expected to die of AIDS by 2020, including 55 million in sub-Saharan Africa. While any factor that eases population pressures may help the environment, the situation would be far less tragic if rich nations did more to help the developing world reduce birth rates and slow the spread of disease...
...riven by sectarian violence, "in Sierra Leone there is no religious bigotry," Kabbah says. "This is one of the things of which we're very proud." Given the country's interfaith harmony, mineral riches, abundant natural resources and a once-vaunted educational system that boasted the first university in sub-Saharan Africa, Kabbah's promise to return it to its past glory seems less quixotic than Sierra Leone's current war-scarred state would suggest. Age, says the 70-year-old widower, is no impediment to his plans, but money is. That is why, when he addresses the U.N. General...
...Britain can no longer beat up its former colonies on the battlefields of sub-Saharan Africa, the expanses of the City of Manchester Stadium became the location where Britons had to prove—more to themselves than any neutral (and, doubtless, uninterested) third party—that they were superior to their colonial underlings...
Early on, to move past the “What if I really do have to give tours?” anxiety, I took a quick orienting trip to the museum the day before my scheduled start. The unproductive excursion merely revealed hundreds of sweaty, sunburned tourists, sub-zero temperatures and several fishbowl-like working environments where the tourists can gawk at museum specialists. The Digital Archiving Lab and Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Lab are located on public floors, and are fitted with clear windows so that tourists can stare at the working experts and leave finger and nose-prints...