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...pretty much call him crazy. I was [writing] about him and his 20-year-old Jamaican cleaning lady [also his girlfriend]. And he said he didn't want me to talk about that in this book, because that's private information. He doesn't want people to think that he is off the market - as if anyone wants to be "on the market" with him. And then he said that he wanted to be paid $25,000 for me to use his picture in my book. I told him that that wasn't going to happen either. Then he said...
...seem almost too hilarious to be true. What's the line you draw between keeping things accurate and exaggerating for humor? There's not a lot of exaggeration in my stories. You learn that lesson the James Frey way. I'm looking through the book right now trying to think if anything was really exaggerated, and it's like, I don't think so. They're all really true. I don't have to exaggerate a lot, because my life is ridiculous...
What story are you most worried about in terms of how your friends and family will see it? I think probably my dad finding out that we were e-mailing each other about euthanizing...
...could offer hope that global demand will be met. "European public opinion on GMOs was shaken two years ago with the food crisis, when prices spiked wildly and there were riots around the world," says Jo Swinnen, senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies, a Brussels-based think tank. "People thought there would always be food surpluses and low prices. But that can't be assumed anymore." (See "How to Live 100 Years...
...study published in the March 8 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that the carbon equation isn't as straightforward as we might think. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University synthesized carbon emissions and trade patterns and found that more than one-third of CO2 emissions related to the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually emitted outside their national borders. Rich nations are essentially outsourcing some of their carbon emissions to developing nations through global trade - by importing goods and services from abroad - thereby shrinking their carbon...