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From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins reduce our dependence on oil, help stop global warming and make a lot of money at the same time?

A social movement argues that you can be healthy no matter how fat you are.

How can you be naked wearing shorts?

When Shiites fight Sunnis below your balcony in Beirut, the old routines come back to you.

The stars of today’s epic TV dramas struggle to pull off the James Gandolfini feat.

In “Those Who Write, Teach,” David Gessner (Sept. 21) structures the choices available to a writer/teacher as either sitting at a lonely desk writing or balancing that writing with all the requirements of teaching. Such a distinction is useful when he writes about Emily Dickinson but much less so when applied to Thoreau or Melville. They went to the woods and the sea, where their experiences and observations provided them with the material for their writing.

A collection of artist-designed jewelry makes more than a fashion statement.

Apple is investigating a complaint that its pre-2008 Mac Pros emit fumes from the chemical benzene. One user told Apple that he noticed a strong smell when he unpacked his Mac last year, and that 10 days later, he developed nose and throat irritation, reports the French newspaper Liberation. (A clunky English translation of the report can be found here.) [More]