Interesting MSN City Guides article about a growing trend in restaurants using all parts of animals in preparing their menus. It's not only healthy, but environmentally friendly too! Also, that's a mighty fine headline if I may say so :)

Quoted: Some high-end eateries are going whole hog (cow, lamb, chicken—you name it) by using every part of an animal.

I didn't realize pollution in Beijing is so severe that events might need to be postponed. It's so bad it could make it difficult for athletes to break world records at the 2008 games - I think this should be a factor in choosing future sites.

Quoted: Some events in the 2008 Summer Games may have to be postponed by a day or two if air pollution in Beijing is excessive, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. How will all this pollution affect the Olympic athletes?

I definitely buy the argument that Rachel Carson's work uses scare tactics. But it's not like she was entirely wrong about DDT. I think this journalist is right in suggesting that reading both books helps form a balanced opinion...

Quoted: Rachel Carson’s warning on pesticides in “Silent Spring” ignored the good that they did. Students who read this work should read it against I.L. Baldwin's 1962 "Chemicals & Pesticides," which found that “Silent Spring” was not a scientific balancing of costs & benefits but rather a “prosecuting attorney’s impassioned plea for action.”