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Thursday, February 05, 2004

Chicken wings and fried rice are full of grease, but even low-fat foods require oil —petroleum, that is— for their production. According to a new article in Harper’s magazine, agriculture and livestock husbandry are guzzling dangerous amounts of oil. Also, the new Time Warner building at Columbus Circle, Powell’s big UN speech-- one year later, and how will "gay" play in the 2004 election?

Gay Rites

Deborah Glick New York State Assemblywoman (D-66th)
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Jeffrey Cook A third year law school student at New York University and Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans of New York
on how the gay marriage issue will play in the national presidential campaign

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Mall Rats

Paco Underhill Managing Director of Envirosell, a behavioral and consulting company on consumer buying habits and author Call of the Mall Simon & Schuster( Feb 2004) and Why We Buy: The Science Of ShoppingSimon & Schuster; (June, 2000)
on the opening of the Time Warner Center ...

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One Year Ago Today

Joseph Cirincione Senior Associate and Director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-author WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004)
says intelligence failures occurred at the top

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Grass Roots

Richard Manning author of "The Oil We Eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq" in the February Harper's Magazine and, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (forthcoming North Point Press)
on the extraordinary energy requirements of current agricultural practices

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