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“Smoking can kill you,” said then-16-year-old model/actress Brooke Shields in a 1981 US Congressional hearing, “and if you’ve been killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you, even young Ms. Shields whose vacuous words have been circulating the Internet for years. Smoking can cause heart attacks, [...]
Last summer I happened to see an exceptionally interesting episode of the BBC News interview program HARDtalk hosted by Stephen Sackur. It was one of several installments of HARDtalk dealing with topics concerning the environment, climate change and specifically man-made greenhouse gas emissions. One portion in particular called attention to the often conveniently ignored opinion [...]
Back in the 1980s and 90s Sting and other celebrities fought to save the dwindling Amazon rainforest and campaigned for the rights of its indigenous peoples. Who could forget images of the handsome blond rock star standing side by side with proud members of the Kayapo people of northern Brazil? Sure, he got made fun [...]
Ah, the 60s…it was a time of the baby boomers, rock and roll, as well as the beehive and bouffant. The only way to get your hair into a towering beehive was to spray your tresses with liberal amounts of hairspray. Perhaps it was through this chemical haze of pubescent teens generously dousing their hair [...]
“This is the most shocking thing I have seen”
- Oprah Winfrey
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is a maelstrom of debris twice the size of Texas. It has been affectionately given a variety of clever names: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Sea of Trash, the Eastern Garbage Patch, the Asian Trash Trail [...]
