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Breathe easy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1333228,00.html
When Nasa scientists needed to create breathable atmospheres for space
exploration, they turned to houseplants. Alys Fowler reports on how
their research can help us purify our homes
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Your carpets, plastic shopping bags, gas cookers, photocopiers, even
the tissue you blow your nose on are pouring into the air a cocktail
of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). According to
research by the US Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be
up to 10 times more polluted than outdoor air, and our increasingly
sedentary life means we spend up to 90% of our time indoors. But
before you spend the rest of the afternoon looking into expensive air
filters, go buy some houseplants.
Bill Wolverton, a former Nasa scientist and author of Eco-friendly
Houseplants, has spent the past 30 years researching the link between
houseplants and a healthy indoor environment. In the 1960s, when
manned moon bases were planned, Nasa scientists were set the task of
creating closed life-support facilities (sky labs) for outer space.
The problem with sky labs was that they quickly built up hazardous
levels of air pollution. What they needed to do was create a little
bit of home. The earth produces and sustains clean air through the
living process of plants. So they bought some houseplants and got to
work.
Alys Fowler
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Nasa
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Sunshine satirist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332707,00.html
From an early career as an investigative journalist in Miami Carl
Hiaasen began writing novels lampooning the rape of Florida by
developers. When not fighting environmental degradation, political
intransigence and bureaucracy, he tries to play the guitar. Now, as a
columnist, he is braced for a showdown over next month's US election
Hadley Freeman
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Carl Hiaasen has spent the past two months in the eye of the storm,
the stance for which he is best known. As the unofficial voice of
Florida, Hiaasen, renowned for his satirical novels and newspaper
columns, has written frequently about the hurricanes that regularly
batter his beloved home state. In particular, he focuses his angry
gaze on local government "shoddiness", and corrupt building inspectors
and developers. In his 1993 novel Stormy Weather, the inspectors
sacrifice animals in the hope of escaping prison, while tourists get
out their video cameras when they see hurricane victims dying in the
street.
Carl Hiaasen
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A tropical Versailles
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332693,00.html
In 1807 the entire, ill-assorted Portuguese court fled to Rio and
stayed for 13 years. John Ryle applauds Patrick Wilcken's Empire
Adrift, a brilliant account of a bizarre yet momentous event
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Empire Adrift
by Patrick Wilcken
320pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99
In his novel The Stone Raft (1986), the Portuguese Nobel laureate José
Saramago imagines the entire Iberian peninsula breaking away from
Europe and drifting across the Atlantic towards the tropics.
Saramago's allegory of detachment reflects Portugal's role as the
earliest of Europe's seaborne empires and nostalgia for the wonder
years of the 16th century, when this tiny ear of land (as an earlier
Portuguese writer referred to it) established a colonial presence in
India, China, Africa and the Americas, a time that saw the beginning
of Europe's long and violent romance with the peoples of the south.
Patrick Wilcken
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The age of anxiety
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332840,00.html
American academic Richard Sennett, who has been teaching in London for
five years, returns to New York and takes the cultural and political
temperature
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
It was no surprise that two people in Fanelli's Bar and Grill were
reading Philip Roth's new novel, The Plot Against America. Fanelli's
is the left epicentre of Soho, a manufacturing district in lower
Manhattan that became home to artists and galleries in the 1970s and
now is filled with Euro-shoppers. Tourists avoid Fanelli's - grimy,
badly lit, air-conditioned down almost to absolute zero - leaving in
peace the elderly union organisers, greying sculptors and the odd
younger family feeding enormous Italian meatballs to children in
prams.
Richard Sennett
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Kyoto treaty to be binding after Russian ratification
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=575219
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
23 October 2004
Environmentalists hailed Russia as the world's ecological saviour
yesterday after the Russian parliament made good on President Vladimir
Putin's promise to endorse the Kyoto climate change pact. Yesterday's
vote will see the UN treaty take effect early next year.
The world's industrialised countries (with the exception of America,
the largest polluter) will have to cut their collective emissions of
six greenhouse gases to 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels in eight years
or face stiff penalties and global humiliation.
Kyoto treaty
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love, passion and a melancholy man
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=575215
By Nicholas Caistor
23 October 2004
It is rare for a publisher to rush forward publication of a novel to
try to pre-empt pirate editions. But this week, Norma publishers in
Colombia have been forced to bring out the latest book by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez after illegal vendors had apparently sold more than
13,000 cheap copies on the streets of his home country of Colombia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Big G.O.P. Bid to Challenge Voters at Polls in Key State
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MICHAEL MOSS
Party officials in Ohio plan to place thousands of recruits at polling
places on Nov. 2 to challenge voters' qualifications.
Ohio
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An Undissolved Alliance
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/national/23beliefs.html
By PETER STEINFELS
Religion, politics and the good - or harm - that may result from the
2004 campaign.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Officials Fear Iraq's Lure for Muslims in Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/international/europe/23france.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By CRAIG S. SMITH and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Officials fear that for a new generation of disaffected European
Muslims, Iraq has become the crux of a new holy war.
It's Too Late to Change The Minds of Some Voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55598-2004Oct22?language=printer
Record Numbers Use Early or Absentee Ballots
By Jo Becker and Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 23, 2004; Page A01
Over the next 10 days, President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry will
spend millions of dollars on a blizzard of last-minute ads. The
candidates will dash from state to state, trying to squeeze in one
more rally, a few thousand more handshakes. But for a growing number
of people, the effort will be wasted: They have already voted.
Democrats Aim to Organize the Union Vote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55603-2004Oct22?language=printer
Labor Leaders Predict Record Turnout as They Rally Members for Kerry
in Battleground States
By Vanessa Williams, Page A08
BETHELHEM, Pa. -- When union members give him grief about Democrats
being soft on the Second Amendment, Bill Dorward, an organizer for the
United Steelworkers of America, fires back: "If you lose your job, you
can't eat your gun."
Ohio GOP Challenges 35,000 Voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55472-2004Oct22.html
Page A09
The Ohio Republican Party challenged the eligibility of 35,000 newly
registered voters yesterday, an action that party officials said was
unprecedented but necessary to prevent election fraud in a state where
polls show President Bush and John F. Kerry in a statistical tie.
Breasts, bottoms and so forth
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332694,00.html
Desmond Morris rightly admires the beauty of the female hand in The
Naked Woman, says Catherine Bennett. But has he never seen a bunion?
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
by Desmond Morris
400pp, Cape, £17.99
I wonder how many specimens Desmond Morris inspected before deciding
that "every woman has a beautiful body", the statement which launches
this book. Not enough, anyway, or he would surely have come across at
least one that had gone wonky or started falling apart. He says our
bodies are beautiful because they are "the brilliant end-point of
millions of years of evolution". But you could say that about a slug.
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The society of swine
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Lyall Watson's The Whole Hog and Fergus Henderson's Nose To Tail
Eating are enough to get Ian Sansom reaching for the pork scratchings
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
by Lyall Watson
288pp, Profile, £16.99
Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking
by Fergus Henderson
256pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99
You wait for ages and then along come two great, eccentric books both
at the same time: one about a man and his love of pigs, and the other
about a man and his love of pigs. The only difference is that Lyall
Watson, author of The Whole Hog, is a naturalist, so obviously he
spends his time watching animals and communing with them, while Fergus
Henderson, author of Nose to Tail Eating, is a chef, so he cooks them.
Lyall Watson
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Fergus Henderson
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The bad girl of Rome
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332697,00.html
Kathryn Hughes appreciates Sarah Bradford's reappraisal of the
infamous Lucrezia Borgia
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford
368pp, Penguin, £25
It says something about the reputation of the Borgia family that when,
one hot day in 1503, two of them went down with violent nausea,
everyone immediately assumed that they had somehow managed to poison
one another by mistake. In fact, on this occasion it looks as though
Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare may simply have been the victim
of some bad seafood or a nasty bout of malaria, but the point was
that, as far as the talking, writing, worrying classes of Renaissance
Italy were concerned, the Borgias were a byword for the dark arts of
realpolitik.
Lucrezia Borgia
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Not just a pretty face
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332696,00.html
Eric Ives revisits the life of Henry VIII's most influential queen
with The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. But do we learn anything new?
Sarah Gristwood
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy
by Eric Ives
480pp, Blackwell, £25
Last year, a bookseller from whom I tried to buy Eric Ives's great
biography of Anne Boleyn told me that Blackwell would be reissuing it
shortly. He was wrong - well, nearly. Eighteen years after Ives's
first Anne Boleyn comes a new one. Same author, same subject, same
publisher, different book. Sort of, anyway.
Anne Boleyn
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Henry VIII
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