There's a new genetically modified durian that's eliminated the rotting trash smell. But the smell is part of the delicacy (and makes the taste all that more rewarding), apparently, and many fruit vendors in Asia are appalled.

Quoted: There is probably no other fruit that elicits such passion — and revulsion — as the durian, possibly the world’s smelliest fruit.

An NY Times writer responds to a paper from the University of Illinois charging that obesity is indirectly responsible for global warming because America needs an extra billion gallons of gasoline a year to transport its fatter population...

Quoted: Last week the list of ills attributable to obesity grew: fat people cause global warming.