by Gil Friend | Apr 20, 2003 | Sustainability
E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals. Scientists are raising concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of an important family of industrial chemicals. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Science] The perfluorinated acids are...
by Gil Friend | Apr 20, 2003 | Uncategorized
The Third Bubble. Three bubbles actually burst at the beginning of the 21st century: a stock market bubble, a corporate ethics bubble and a terrorism bubble. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion] We are strong because of who we are. Iraq was weak because of...
by Gil Friend | Apr 13, 2003 | Uncategorized
Jack Kerouac’s Haiku. Jack Kerouac, the poet of inordinate prose, was also a master of haiku, and a master, as always, at deformalizing the formalities of any genre. [New York Times: Opinion] Spring is coming/Yep, all that equipment/for sighs.
by Gil Friend | Apr 13, 2003 | Uncategorized
The Sand Wall. There are still two other walls holding back the explosion of freedom in the Arab East. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion] America was not just at war with Saddam, but with Saddamism: an entrenched Arab mind-set, born of years of...
by Gil Friend | Feb 12, 2003 | Sustainability
A Glimpse of a Future in a New Kind of Light. The ubiquitous lightbulb is quietly on its way to being replaced by light-emitting microchips that work longer and use less power. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Science] “We are not talking about replacing...
