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| 27bb05c | I realize that some of you may be skeptical about the idea of reincarnation, but there's a lot of evidence that it's real. Exhibit A is Vice President Al Gore, who obviously, at some point in his previous existence, was a slab of Formica. | Dave Barry | ||
| f4f5b4c | HUNGER AND OBESITY The change in diets around the world is also creating a global obesity epidemic--and in its wake a global diabetes epidemic--even as more than 900 million people in the world still suffer from chronic hunger. In the United States, where many global trends begin, the weight of the average American has increased by approximately twenty pounds in the last forty years. A recent study projects that half the adult population of.. | Al Gore | ||
| a0609df | too little--and complex, because the manufacturing and marketing of food products has changed dramatically. Dr. David Kessler, former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has extensively documented how food manufacturers and restaurant and fast food chains carefully combine fats, sugar, and salt in precise ratios that reach the "bliss point"--which means they trigger brain systems that increase the desire to eat more, even after o.. | Al Gore | ||
| 6980623 | it's rare to see a family-run media business with deep pride in its independence and a journalistic tradition that has survived over half a dozen generations. Such businesses are now part of conglomerates whose obligations involve meeting Wall Street's expectations rather than the Founders' expectations of the requisite for a well-informed citizenry. Now that the conglomerates can dominate the expressions of opinion that flood the minds of .. | Al Gore | ||
| fe01312 | There are only two kinds of politics. They're not radical and reactionary or conservative and liberal or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says you are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you. The other says the world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men. | Al Gore | ||
| 9912090 | Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain. | Al Gore | ||
| b4bbeb7 | Our political system today does not engage the best minds in our country to help us get the answers and deploy the resources we need to move into the future. Bringing these people in--with their networks of influence, their knowledge, and their resources--is the key to creating the capacity for shared intelligence that we need to solve the problems we face, before it's too late. Our goal must be to find a new way of unleashing our collectiv.. | Al Gore | ||
| a329f79 | The biophilia hypothesis is not your run-of-the-mill Berkeley/Al Gore/Eat Your Spinach environmentalism. It does not appeal directly to our sense of stewardship or responsibility. It appeals to a much more base, and common, human proclivity: selfishness. It says, in effect, protect the environment because it will make you happy. For a country like the United States, with the word "happiness" in its founding document, you'd think environment.. | Eric Weiner | ||
| 2d76430 | Thomas Jefferson once wrote that "whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." He also said: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." But we are right now in a period of great vulnerability. As noted earlier, when t.. | Al Gore | ||
| 01e3146 | It's hard to get good answers to why most Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling's enough. Surely one reason, though, is that politics is not cool. Or say rather that cool, interesting, alive people do not seem to be the ones who are drawn to the Politic.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 5710575 | Just as the printing press led to the appearance of a new set of possibilities for democracy, beginning five hundred years ago--and just as the emergence of electronic broadcasting reshaped those possibilities, beginning in the first quarter of the twentieth century--the Internet is presenting us with new possibilities to reestablish a healthy functioning self-government, even before it rivals television for an audience. In fact, the Intern.. | Al Gore | ||
| eda79f2 | You'll have to forgive Sayri," Ayriah said gently. "Her mate was killed at Gore-Fest." "How barbaric - a festival where people are stabbed and gored?" Sarah exclaimed, truly horrified. "No..." Ayriah answered, somewhat confused. "Gore-Fest is a reading of the collected works of Al Gore, from the twentieth century." | Platte F. Clark | ||
| 7a68af7 | Oftentimes the child is the father of the man. | David Maraniss | ||
| cb4b9dc | You know what happens on live TV? Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Boob happens on live TV. Adele Dazeem happens on live TV. President Al Gore happens on live TV | humor | Shonda Rhimes | |
| f360084 | Toreros must also be accustom themselves to a career which will inevitably involve injury by goring: sometimes serious, if not grotesque, goring. No matter what your personal opinion of the corrida may happen to be, these facts are inescapable: in the corrida, bulls and men meet fear and pain and both may die. | bullfighting bullfights bulls pamplona toreador | A.L. Kennedy | |
| 767e36d | At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al Gore to Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and over 50% of the adult US population, the credibility tipping point of the War on Drugs propaganda has long been passed. All that appears to be missing is the political courage to admit failure and move on to more realistic and efficient policies. What will it take for decision.. | drug-policy-reform newt-gingrich sarah-palin war-on-drugs | Jeffrey Dhywood | |
| 17748c9 | Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change." "What are you saying?" "I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. As Lulu did. It is what one finds so appealing about her." It" | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 807e890 | I was lucky to receive it. Most rogue interns never get a second chance. And here it's worth mentioning that I benefited from what was known in 2009 as being fortunate, and is now more commonly called privilege. It's not like I flashed an Ivy League gang sign and was handed a career. If I had stood on a street corner yelling, "I'm white and male, and the world owes me something!" it's unlikely doors would have opened. What I did receive, ho.. | David Litt | ||
| 2c0bc42 | As a teenager, the future vice president and his sister read and talked about Silent Spring. A happy and vivid memory, Al Gore recalled. Rachel Carson's picture hangs in his office and her example inspired Gore to write Earth in the Balance.[2] It is one of the most extraordinary books by any democratic politician seeking high elective office, for it constitutes an attack on Western civilisation and a fundamental rejection of two of its gre.. | Rupert Darwall | ||
| 2a8710e | I know you're a chocolate lover. I can always tell. I'm about to temper the chocolate. I have my own method; want to watch?" "Could I?" Inside my head, a little voice was reminding me that I had to get back to the office, but it was drowned out by the scent of chocolate, which flooded all my senses with a heady froth of cocoa and coffee, passion fruit, cinnamon and clove. I closed my eyes, and for one moment I was back in Aunt Melba's kitch.. | chocolate chocolate-lovers flavors fruits kim-wong spices | Ruth Reichl | |
| c24fda3 | It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together -- and kept them apart. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 24af999 | We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 6f6d500 | Till I was back in your arms again." She had a nice voice, and I hummed along" -- | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 6840df6 | I just can't imagine somebody else in the White House. I'm sure President Truman is a good man, but even the words feel peculiar in my mouth. A world without President Roosevelt seems like a strange and scary place. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| b8ca610 | I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 8ad1667 | I decided that it wasn't pretty that I felt, but confident. | confidence | Ruth Reichl | |
| 5b60f91 | I wish you could have seen the kitchen when I was done: It looked like a hurricane had blown right in the door! But I cleaned it all up, and when Mother came home the whole house smelled warm and spicy, Bing Crosby was singing "White Christmas" on the radio, I was wearing a clean apron, and she called me her "little homemaker." What would you think about tomato mincemeat cookies? I bet no one else will think of that!" | homemaker lulu-swan mincemeat tomato | Ruth Reichl | |
| 689b21f | CAKE whole black peppercorns whole cloves whole cardamom 1 cinnamon stick 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 large eggs 1 large egg yolk 1 cup sour cream 1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 large pieces fresh ginger root ( 1/4 cup, tightly packed, when finely grated) zest from 2 to 3 oranges (1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated) Preheat oven to 350degF. Butter a.. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 94cdc50 | were unaware that the room was crowded with ghosts who were about to propel us into the present and force us to face the future. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| e5754a8 | the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 13b6819 | When you attain my age you will understand one of life's great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| a490da4 | Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan. | flowers food | Ruth Reichl | |
| 3e426d0 | We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 1c351a0 | but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked | Ruth Reichl | ||
| f60b6db | We were having a class on civics, talking about what makes America a great country. I said I thought one important reason is that we've all come from different places in the world and that we learn from one another. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| bbdb4a9 | What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them, | nelson | Val McDermid | |
| fb9cc09 | He knew he could devastate her and drive her from him with a handful of well-chosen sentences. And part of him wanted to do just that. Part of him wanted to banish her and her presumptions from his life. He'd travel further and faster and lighter without her. Then an appalling thought battled through his anger. . | Val McDermid | ||
| 41ad556 | The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat. | Val McDermid | ||
| 1a7a5e9 | Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind'. | Val McDermid | ||
| 1f35db5 | Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They | Val McDermid | ||
| 6e5c237 | To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.' Michel de Montaigne, Essais (1580) | Val McDermid | ||
| e3b2609 | As with arsenical candles and papers and fabrics, items become established in commerce before their dangers are recognized, ensuring that any attempt to curtail their use will be resisted by manufacturers ... and fought or ignored by politicians ideologically opposed to government interference ...' Gettler's | Val McDermid | ||
| a468dcf | They think of policemen as they do of Labradors - noble, loyal, good with children, man's protector and friend. In | Val McDermid | ||
| 98d3575 | Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With | Val McDermid |