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(Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)

『Mortenson is a great person with great personality, who is a great role model for Americans. I am grateful that he listened to his heart to help promote education, especially for girls, in a country like Pakistan, which prohibits girls from attending school. He truly used his heart and intelligence to bring peace worldwide.

After reading the entire book from front to back, I thought of Mortenson as a living legend of the legends. He is a true hero. The book is very alive; the minute I started reading the book, I could not put it down or leave it. I just had to keep reading it. This made me recommend it to everyone, including schools here and overseas. In fact, I have already passed on my book to one of my friends. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
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(Education as a key to changing the world)

『A wonderful account of how a man is working to change the world through education. Greg Mortensen, a climber, comes to understand the needs of a remote village in Pakistan. He makes a commitment to help them build a school and this one project becomes a mission to bring education in to people with little chance for improving their lives otherwise. I found it impressive that he was committed to bringing education to both boys and girls, even when it would have been easier to cave into pressure and not help the girls. I find it enlightening that education is the key to bringing about understanding and peace as it gives people hope of a better future. Truly inspiring.』

(Three Cups of Tea)

『A book I would recommend to the President of the United States and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What we need to do to win in Afghanistan or anywhere else.』

(Peace)

『Three Cups of Tea: One Mans Mission to Promote Peace is a well executed read. It has all the elements: suspense, intrigue, compassion, and hope. In the harsh environments of Pakistan and Afghanistan,in regions most of the world has all but forgotten, Greg Mortensen is able to build friendships and trust in order to provide a basic education for all children----especially women. However, this is not simply about an education, it is about learning to accept, and beleive in others. In a time when most Westerner's beleive that all people of Islamic nations are the same, the story of the founding of CAI, along with the strength, support and determination of not only Greg Mortensen, but the faith and support that village elders place in him, truly enlightens. These people are simply people, and they need to be recognized.

A truly fantastic book---I have already suggested this read to many of my friends, and family.』

(One man's amazing story)

『This book tells Greg Mortenson's amazing story. After he stumbled into a Pakistani village, disoriented and lost, he was moved by the kindness of the villagers and promised to return to help them build a school. And so began his life's mission to spread peace through education. After reading this book, I can say that Greg Mortenson is one of my heroes. His perseverance and dedication to his cause is unwavering, even through an 8 day detainment by the Taliban. What makes him so incredible is that, unlike so-called missionaries who travel through the poorest regions of the world to promote religion, Greg promotes education without demeaning the locals' way of life. He is completely accepting that he is the foreigner, and adapts to his surroundings rather than trying to change them. In doing so he has gained the respect of the people he helps, and it is the basis of work. This is a wonderfully, touching book that sends a powerful message to anyone who reads it. I highly recommend this book!』
『The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard

Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans,Three Cups of Teacombines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.』

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(Irresponsible, Unethical Framing Mar An Interesting Story)

『At its heart, this is the story of the Lacks family and the cell line that was spawned from one woman, Henrietta Lacks. It is also the story, in a vague sense, of what the research done on those cells meant to her daughter, Deborah Lacks. It purports to be more than this, and many have willingly, indeed gladly, swallowed those claims, but I think that they lack support. For example, it purports to be about the history of medicine, but it is not. Rather, it discusses events that took place at one institution (Johns Hopkins Hospital) in one time frame, and then distorts them and seeks to make the reader form broad generalizations about scientists and doctors, and their actions and morals.

For example, in the beginning of the book, where Henrietta goes to Johns Hopkins to be diagnosed, Rebbecca Skloot seems to relish mentioning the fact that Henrietta Lacks was in the colored ward. At the very least, she takes every possible opportunity to work it into the story, along with the fact that she was African-American and her doctors were white. These facts are, quite honestly, completely incidental to the story. If you read this book, the people with whom Rebbecca Skloot spoke reliably mentioned that she received the standard of care for her time, regardless of her race. Despite this fact, Ms. Skloot goes out of her way to mention that, quite often, patient care was different for African-Americans than whites. In every way, Rebbecca Skloot seems to have sought out anything that would provoke outrage in readers. In the end, it is not clear, whether this was a result of Rebbecca Skloot framing her book in this fashion to win the approval and trust of the family (which may or may not have been necessary to receive their permission for printing) or whether it was a malicious gambit to improve sales.

By the end, I found the book obnoxious on many levels.

First, the vilification of scientists and doctors who are providing the standard of care, calling into question their intentions and actions without even allowing most of them (or their families) to speak on their behalf, combined with her constant framing of Henrietta's treatment as a race issue, which it clearly wasn't if you are paying attention, seems guaranteed to cast the doctors in the light of the villain, while Henrietta's family, with their self-imposed medical conditions, as victims of the doctors, society, and, well, everyone but themselves.

Second, the repetition of the stories about Johns Hopkins doctors "stealing" patients off of the street (who were inevitably characterized as African-Americans, as opposed to the white doctors), without bothering to look up something as simple as the number of people who were reported missing near Johns Hopkins to similar urban neighborhoods without a major research and medical clinic, shows, clearly, her bias and intent. I guess, though, that would merely give her the opportunity to claim that most people weren't reported missing because they were poor African-Americans, and the white police didn't want to take the missing persons reports.

Third, the vilification of scientists, was annoying beyond measure. Many, many times in the course of the book, Rebbecca Skloot would present ridiculous headlines fron the past, where a member of the press would dramatically misunderstand the findings of a scientist and would make some insane, sordid claim that would instill a greater fear of science into lay people. Admittedly, this is also the fault of the scientists involved, as they really need to do a better job of making sure that the press understands the story. (Which won't stop the press and journalists from misrepresenting it ANYWAY, but may stop some accidents, at least.) And that is really where this book lets us down, as we have to sit through the exaggerated claims that are in this book. But, in the end, I guess that is the difference between journalists and scientists. Scientists PROVE things, journalists SELL things.

Fourth, as a good example of this framing problem, Rebbecca Skloot spends three or so pages talking about the sociopathic behavior that a disgraced scientist exhibited, including a support for eugenics. While it is true that there were some scientists that were in favor of eugenics, there were others, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, who spoke out, vehemently, against the practice. Moreover, it is blatantly misleading to paint eugenics as a solely scientific endeavor. Rather, it included such luminaries as Sir Francis Galton (an anthropologist and statistician), H.G. Wells, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, future Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Emile Zola (a novelist), economists John Keynes, Irving Fisher, and Sidney Webb, and, notably, the journalists George Bernard Shaw and Lothrop Stoddard (and probably a lot more, but journalists don't tend to make history like people who DO things). None of this makes the practice, supported by so many scientists, any more excusable. If anything, their participation is what gave it such awful credibility, and they bear more responsbility than anyone. Nevertheless, none of these figures are mentioned, nor is the overwhelming popularity of the movement, worldwide. A little context would have been nice.

As I said at the outset, the irresponsible and inaccurate framing of the cultural surroundings of the book mar the story and make it impossible to really understand what happened and why. In the end, readers are left with an unjustified sense of outrage, and little new learned. At least, little that is accurate.
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(Best first book since I've read since Seabiscuit)

『I loved this book, I think that it is well worth reading. My Paternal grandmother was a poor white woman who also died of cervical cancer in the early 1950's before I was born. Although she wasn't a good parent, my father grieved for her deeply- only once in my life did he ever tell me about her, and he mentioned how painful and difficult the radiation treatment had been for her, and that he thought that the treatment had killed her, not the cancer. Now I understand better what she, and my father, must have gone through. The story of the HeLa cell line is fascinating. Like the author, I remember hearing about HeLa cells in biology class. I also remember reading an article about the cells that would not die, and how it seemed creepy, like a science fiction movie. The author portrays the human woman behind the HeLa cells in a compassionate way. The portrayal of the Lacks family and their struggles is deeply moving- people struggling in the face of poverty, prejuidice, and family abuse. The book is a compelling, can't put down read.』

(Heartbreaking and beautiful, powerful history and important study in ethics)

『The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a multi-layered work of history, ethics and, to some extent autobiography. The author, Rebecca Skloot not only resurrects Ms. Lacks from a dehumanizing anonymity (being referred merely as "Hela" or worse as "Helen Lane") but she also restores a measure of dignity to the Lacks family who spent decades knowing little of the astonishing contributions made by the cells that were taken, without consent (an important issue in this work for those contemplating buying it), from Mrs. Lacks before her death from cervical cancer in 1951. Although this is Ms Skloot's first book, she does a very fine job of juggling the complex, intertwining stories of Mrs Lacks, her children, science (cell lines, DNA, genetics, matters relating to consent for tissue "donation") and her own efforts to understand a woman she first met vicariously in a college biology class. Not wanting to be a plot spoiler, I end by saying only that I hope Mrs. Lacks family has received a measure of peace, Henrietta will receive her rightful place in history and that the scholarship fund mentioned by Ms. Skloot can indeed be set up for the Lacks family. Of Ms. Skloot, I hope we will be reading more of her works in the future.』

(I would have bought it, if only...)

『The sample was deeply engaging but I don't want to buy a crippled e-book. If text-to-speech hadn't been blocked, I would have bought it.』

(Absolutely compelling story)

『I read a glowing review of this book last week in the NY Times and downloaded it immediately on my Kindle. Once I started, I couldn't stop reading it. It is incredible that this woman's story has gone untold for so many years. Skloot does a skillful job of interweaving Henrietta Lacks story with Skloot's own quest of trying to uncover Lacks life and connect with Lacks surviving family members. This will no doubt end up being one of the best books of 2010...don't miss it!』
『Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the“colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biologicalmaterials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we controlthe stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, whodied in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down,The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackscaptures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.』
『Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned inThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksa fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --Tom Nissley

Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad ReviewsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hitRadiolab, now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.Radiolabcombines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:

Honestly, I can't imagine a better tale.

A detective story that's at once mythically large and painfully intimate.

Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one's mind right out of one's face.

But what's truly remarkable about Rebecca Skloot's book is that we also get the rest of the story, the part that could have easily remained hidden had she not spent ten years unearthing it: Who was Henrietta Lacks? How did she live? How she did die? Did her family know that she'd become, in some sense, immortal, and how did that affect them? These are crucial questions, because science should never forget the people who gave it life. And so, what unfolds is not only a reporting tour de force but also a very entertaining account of Henrietta, her ancestors, her cells and the scientists who grew them.

The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta's youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.

As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we're bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta's childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta's family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta's family can't afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother's cells have helped to cure.

Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.--Jad Abumrad

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(Simple, common sense approach to eating)

『Most of what we eat is not food. That's the simple premise in Pollan's follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma. Most of what we eat are food-like substances (and that might be generous), packed with preservatives, artificial flavors, fillers and other chemicals that don't exist in nature. Pollan makes the point that if our grandparents walked into the modern supermarket, they wouldn't recognize many of the things on the shelves. This is not good.

It's the Western obsession with nutrients as opposed to food that has led us here. Sometimes flaky dietary science, a culture desperately seeking out the "magic bullet," big-budget marketing campaigns from American food manufacturers and laws and regulation that place the financial health of the agricultural industry above the physical health of the population have all contributed to a situation where people really aren't sure what they should and shouldn't be eating. As Pollan points out, that's a uniquely human dilemma.

Although he give the disclaimer that he's nobody to be telling anybody what to eat, he does give some good, common sense rules of thumb: Eat mostly plants (mostly green plants). Eat less. Think of meat as more of a side dish. Don't eat things with ingredients you can't pronounce. Paradoxically, avoid foods that make health claims on their packaging (which implies, firstly, that they have packaging--something else to probably avoid). Shop around the edges of the grocery store. All of these direct us to eat food, not food-like, processed, manufactured food-like substances. It's a great message, and with all the confusing health claims out there, it's nice to have a call for simple common sense.
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(Pollan understands what's ailing America)

『Read Omnivore's Dilemma, and with the exception of some issues I have with theoretical framing of part of the book, it was a fantastic read and I definitely recommend it to everyone. In Defense of Food was a gift to my sister. We've both read Dilemma, and we have never eaten the same since--we eat better and we couldn't be happier about it. Buy this book and understand your relationship with yourself.』

(Great)

『A great collection of newer American studies in American nutrition. After watching Food, Inc I decided to spend more time considering where my food comes from. Organic is much more flavorful and nutritional, if you can afford it. Have done quite a bit of research on food. I think its interesting that we really have no idea where our food comes from.』

(WARNING: Kindle edition does not have working index!)

『The purpose of this review is not to talk about the content but to warn you that the index in the Kindle edition does not work -- there are no corresponding links to content. This lack of such an important reference is a real problem for me, especially in a work like this one where you are obviously interested in using it to skip around and read different things on the subject.

I'll be returning this immediately and buying the paperback version instead.』

(What the so called "diet industry" should be printing...)

『I read Pollan's book "The Omnivores Dilemma" about two years ago, and was anxious to read his new one. While very similar in the theme that our food system is industrialized, politicized, engineered, and awash in pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and drugs, this book looks deeper at how nutrition science has been both misleading and wrong. Pollan ends by giving his rules of thumb for eating in North America today. I've read several books in this genre, this was my favorite. This is the best diet book that will never get sold as a diet book.
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『The companion volume toThe New York TimesbestsellerThe Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan's lastbook ,The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; nowIn Defense of Foodshows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words:Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.』
『Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what weshouldeat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows inIn Defense of Foodis a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation has only deteriorated since we started exiling carbs, fats--even fruits--from our daily meals. His razor-sharp analysis of the American diet (as well as its architects and its detractors) offers an inspiring glimpse of what it would be like if we could (a la Humpty Dumpty) put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well. In a season filled with rallying cries to lose weight and be healthy, Pollan's call to action—"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."--is a program I actually want to follow.--Anne Bartholomew

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Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.	Elsie Lacks, Henrietta’s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of “idiocy.”	Deborah Lacks at about age four.	The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)	Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.

Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951. Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s. In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister. Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001. The Lacks family in 2009.

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