A chocolate expert discusses the intricacies of buying, storing, tasting, judging and, most of all, savoring the world’s most heavenly chocolates. Clay Gordon is editor and publisher of Chocophile.com and the founder of the New World Chocolate Society.
The award-winning adventure writer describes his voyage to the Antarctic with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the midst of 30ft waves to stop an illegal Japanese whaling fleet.
Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals–and for America? Drawing on personal interviews with an astonishing array of prominent Americans–including two former Presidents, dozens of political and government leaders, more than 100 top business executives, plus Hollywood moguls, intellectuals, athletes, and other powerful figures–D. Michael Lindsay shows first-hand how they are bringing their vision of moral leadership into the public square.
D. Michael Lindsay is a member of the sociology faculty at Rice University where he is also the Faculty Associate of Leadership Rice and Assistant Director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life. He is the author of two books, both with George Gallup, Jr., and has written many scholarly and popular essays.
This Authors@Google event took place October 5, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
I hate it when a check-out person bags my one item. I know it’s their job to serve me. I usually remove the item and place the bag back on the counter–hopefully it will be re-used.
When I was in Ireland for a week, I had to pay for any bags that I needed. I’d be happy in levying a tax on grocery bags. This would promote re-use.
There are only 3 public places to recycle plastic “grocery” bags in Indianapolis. Several grocery stores and I hear that Wal-Mart have bins that people can return their grocery bags to for recycling.
Several U.S cities may follow San Fransisco’s lead in the effort to ban plastic bags at large grocery and pharmacies checkout counters. We’ll talk about some of the economic, environmental, and logistical challenges of cutting back on the use of plastic bags.
Listen to Banning Plastic Bags on Diane Rehm