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...We now throw away forty percent of all the edible food we produce. And when we throw away food we don't just throw away nutrients; we also throw away the energy we used in keeping it cold as we lost interest in it, as well as the energy that went into growing, harvesting, processing, and transporting it, along with its proportional share of our staggering national consumption of fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation water, packaging, and landfill capacity. According to a 2009 study, more than a quarter of U.S. freshwater goes into producing food that is later discarded.

--David Owen, The Efficiency Dilemma

PART II

Jay-Z loves the Peace Corps.

--Petter Hessler, Village Voice

One day four years ago, Jay-Z was reading The Economist...

--Kelefa Sanneh, Jay-Z's Decoded and the Language of Hip-Hop

And if you sat at the dinner table long enough, whether in punishment or in refusal or simply in boredom, you never stopped sitting there. Some part of you sat there all your life.

--Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections