From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Dr. Mehmet Oz, 21 August 2008
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It by Elizabeth Royte
An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we’re hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we’re drinking and why.
In this intelligent, eye-opening work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Eric Schlosser did for fast food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from nature to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? What happens when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town’s source? Should we have to pay for water? Is the stuff coming from the tap completely safe? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What’s the environmental footprint of making, transporting, and disposing of all those plastic bottles? A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth century as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call, Bottlemania is essential reading for anyone who shells out two dollars to quench their daily thirst.
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From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Dr. Mehmet Oz, 18 August 2008
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Jean Chatzky, 28 August 2008
Kay Unger bracelet-sleeve jacket and pencil skirt in luxe cotton. Jacket is trimmed with black piping, three black buttons, and a narrow black belt. Back-zip skirt; 23 knee length. Fully lined. Semi-fitted; imported (fabric is from Italy). Dry clean. Butter. Misses 4-18.
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Kay Unger Belted Trimmed Suit
From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Jean Chatzky, 28 August 2008
Ponte knit two-tone suit by Kay Unger New York. Mint jacket is high-hip length; has black trim at the notch collar and 3/4-sleeve openings black bow trim on faux-pocket flapsand three black buttons at the closure.
Black slim skirt: back zip; 23 knee length. Jacket: polyester/elastane. Skirt: viscose/nylon/elastic. Both fully lined. Semi-fitted; imported. Dry clean. Mint multi. Misses 4-16.
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Kay Unger Two-Tone Suit
From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Jean Chatzky, 28 August 2008
Kay Unger Chocolate Slim Skirt
Two piece suited separates in textured cotton/linen. No-waist style. Back zip and slit. 23 knee length, fully lined. Semi-fitted; imported. Dry clean. Chocolate. Misses 4-16.
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Kay Unger Chocolate Slim Skirt
