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...along with five others calculated the concentration of pollutants due to ships and then estimated the number of extra deaths caused by the additional exposure. If nothing is done to reduce emissions, that number could rise to 87,000 as soon as 2012, according to a 2009 report co-written by Corbett. Since six of the seven busiest ports in the world are in Asia, the health burden falls largely on port cities like Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai...
...think you come under unfair scrutiny because of other memoirists who haven't told the truth? If I step outside myself, no. Let's face it: I've written six memoirs now, and I'm 44. That's a lot. And some might say I haven't had nearly as much happen to me as I've said in my memoirs. I can see how people would believe that. So I don't know that I would call it unfair. It has been irritating in the past because I have felt like, All right, I don't know...
...Vain possessiveness emerges in us because we...feel [the novel] was written for us, and only we understand it,” he said...
...recounts in a book co-written with his mother, Omar - now 28 years old - found it hard to give up hope that a man who had killed so many people might one day turn his back on violence and become a normal father. The younger bin Laden fled Afghanistan only when it become clear that Osama was planning a massive attack on the U.S., but he still couldn't accept that his father was responsible for 9/11 until months later, when he heard the familiar voice on audiotape claiming credit for the attacks. "That was the moment to set aside...
...first book written about Osama bin Laden with help from anyone in the bin Laden family, Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World (St. Martin's Press) is a valuable - if limited - glimpse into the personal life of the world's most wanted man. In recollections from Omar and his mother Najwa bin Laden (the first of Osama's five known wives), and with the assistance of American author Jean Sasson, the book paints a picture of Osama as a towering figure whose noble demeanor inspired fierce loyalty, but also an absolute...