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Pick up an issue of Wired Magazine - if you have an intellectual bent you won't be disappointed. This magazine is feel with intriguing science, mystery, suspenseful tales, interesting facts and is worth every cent.

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization: Thomas L. Friedman

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One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.

Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.

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500 Things To Eat Before It's Too Late: and the Very Best Places To Eat Them: Jane Stern, Michael Stern

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This reminds me of the show diners, drive-ins and dives and who wouldn't want to find the best, or the 500 things to eat before it's too late. Now whether that is too late for you or too late for these wonderful places to exist is a matter of conjecture.
The book itself is arranged in a different manner than the Sterns' other food books and most other foodie guides. First there are colored `tabs' for the different regions of the US - New England, Mid Atlantic, South, Midwest, Southwest and Great Plains and West. So you can immediately find the section of the country you want. At the beginning of each chapter is a map with the names of featured towns. Then each state list is divided into foods, such as Crumb Cake, Stuffed Ham, French Fries with the town and page numbers. Once you get used to this style it is easy to find information. The size of the book is very portable. Less than 1 inch thick and approximately 5 x 8 inches. Pages are smooth and colorful with plenty of pictures both of food and the stores themselves.

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Why We Need A Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America): Thomas L. Friedman

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Accept that oil will never be cheap again and that wasteful, pouting technologies can't be tolerated. The last big innovation in energy production was nuclear power half a century ago - we need a change.

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