There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it.

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.