estimated number of gallons of extra gasoline burned each year because americans are overweight: 938,000,000 from the harper’s index, november 2006
articles i stopped reading…
…the bush administration cut anti-terrorism funding to new york by forty percent this year. the reason: the department of homeland security concluded that the city has no national icons or monuments that terrorists would want to attack…
one-minute vacation
tired of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season? need to get away, even for just a minute? the quiet american web site has a series of “one-minute vacations”, which are one minute ambient recordings of a certain place,