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...time or another thought, what a great relief it would be to end his or her own life - but for the most part, we want to live. ... In my book I show in many different settings how beautiful things could get, and how quickly, if we weren't around - how things revert to wilderness, almost like the Garden of Eden...
...going to be agonizing. He said, "If we stopped having babies now, every decade as there were fewer people left, the world would become wilder and more beautiful." I realized that's kind of what my book is about, the world would heal if we weren't here. But at the same time, hearing him put it that way reinforced what my impetus for writing the book was: I don't want that to happen. I don't want us to disappear. I'm a human being. I love life. I love lots of other human beings. I just want...
...Lewis, 60, insists that he bought Countrywide for his shareholders, not the greater good. "In no way did any government agency call us prior to encourage us," he says. "I can't say they weren't glad that...
...thing. Traveling across Michigan in the days before the primary, McCain realized he had to talk about the looming recession?but he used it, more often than not, as a transition to the things he really cared about?cutting government spending and global warming. If the government weren't spending "$233 million on a bridge to nowhere in Alaska," he would say, the money could be used for retraining programs for displaced workers. If the government decided to limit carbon emissions and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, new technologies would create a wave of jobs for the auto industry...
...channels for decades and who nearly became the first nobodies to start a world war since 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. Critics said the standoff in the strait illustrated how a single provocateur can exploit global tensions and spark an international crisis. And they weren't thinking of the Filipino Monkey...