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...genes have proved so ill equipped to handle. We, the species that invented barbecuing, that domesticated corn and wheat and that created foie gras and French fries, have powered through a series of food revolutions, says Oxford University historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his recently published book, Near a Thousand Tables (The Free Press). The purpose of the next revolution, he predicts, will be to undo the excesses of the last...
...picture is worth a thousand words, do those words say more about the image or the viewer? Take, for instance, the detail-oriented Californian who found one letter on our cover to be literally off-color: "As I looked at your tricolored 'USA' in the cover headline, I wondered when the U.S. changed its colors to red, white and periwinkle blue." A plainspoken Maryland man thought the Boss could use a change: "This bum needs to get a haircut, a shave and a decent suit!" But it was the man behind the camera who was the focus of attention...
...concerted effort to correct this basic flaw in the market could have a bigger payoff for the environment than would a thousand new national parks. But many environmental groups continue to oppose market-based environmental reforms and instead remain wedded to the "mandate, regulate and litigate" model of the past...
Their fans are appreciative. "I've been listening to them for a thousand years," claims Noah Friedman, a chatty 6-year-old. "I know their Bean Bag Dance and Five Little Monkeys and other songs. But I really like Bear Hunt because I can listen and move and run, and...I just like...
...Lake, there were no tears and little anger. This is the fifth time in a decade that the Yangtze and its tributaries have threatened to turn much of eastern China into a lake. Nobody has died on Orange Island this year, although rising water and landslides have killed a thousand people across China since June. (Another quarter of a million, say government officials, have fled for higher ground as floods destroyed 27,000 homes.) This year's flooding doesn't compare to the devastation in 1998, when 4,000 people perished. As the weather improved...