"I LIKE TO EAT BREAKFAST ALONE, AND ALMOST NEVER BEFORE NOON; ANYBODY WITH A TERMINALLY JANGLED LIFESTYLE NEEDS AT LEAST ONE PSYCHIC ANCHOR EVERY 24 HOURS AND MINE IS BREAKFAST. IN HONG KONG, DALLAS, OR AT HOME -- AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT I HAVE BEEN TO BED -- BREAKFAST IS A PERSONAL RITUAL THAT CAN ONLY BE PROPERLY OBSERVED ALONE, AND IN A SPIRIT OF GENUINE EXCESS. THE FOOD FACTOR SHOULD ALWAYS BE MASSIVE: FOUR BLOODY MARY'S, TWO GRAPEFRUITS, A POT OF COFFEE, RANGOON CREPES, A HALF-POUND OF EITHER SAUSAGE, BACON OR CORNED BEEF HASH WITH DICED CHILIES, A SPANISH OMELETTE OR EGGS BENEDICT, SOMETHING LIKE A SLICE OF KEY LIME PIE, TWO MARGARITAS AND SIX LINES OF THE BEST COCAINE FOR DESSERT. . . RIGHT, AND THERE SHOULD ALSO BE TWO OR THREE NEWSPAPERS, ALL MAIL AND MESSAGES, A TELEPHONE, A NOTEBOOK FOR PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS, AND AT LEAST ONE SOURCE OF GOOD MUSIC. . . ALL OF WHICH SHOULD BE DEALT WITH OUTSIDE, IN THE WARMTH OF A HOT SUN, AND PREFERABLY STONE NAKED."
Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique :
Biométrie, données identifiantes et droits de l'homme (French PDF)
TERROR IN THE WEATHER FORECAST
DOES climate change threaten international peace and security? The British government thinks it does. As this month's head of the United Nations Security Council, Britain convened a debate on the matter last Tuesday. One in four United Nations member countries joined the discussion — a record for this kind of thematic debate.
A THEORY OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE (pdf)
NOTABLE READINGS: The Future of Coal
Biofuelwatch highlight the environmental impacts of the global biofuel market, especially the vast releases of greenhouse gases and considerable biodiversity losses they can cause. We campaign for regulation to ensure only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the EU.
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
By WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER
The Panama Syndrome (video)
A poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.
Oath Betrayed' Questions Doctors' Roles in Torture
by Steve Inskeep
In the spring of 2004, when Americans were horrified by the pictures of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, medical ethics expert Steven Miles had just one question: Where were the doctors?
Miles, a doctor and medical ethics expert who has treated victims of torture throughout the world, had just one question: Where were the doctors?
