Water Contamination

Here's an article from comcast on pharmaceutical-contaminated US drinking water...

French fries

Search Engines

Here are some options to use that FAR surpass the usual google or wikipedia searches. Post in comments others you find!

http://scholar.google.com -- google without the porn and E.D. ads

http://grokker.com -- display search results in outline or graphic form (remember to uncheck wikipedia!)

http://www.kosmix.com -- pulls search items into a dossier of information

Employment & Immigration

Here's a great interactive NY Times story on immigration patterns.

Here's an interesting video from the NY Times about young versus old workers.

Meat, Chicken & Pork

Modern Meat's PBS site.

Here's an article from the SF Chronicle about a new way of producing chicken.

Go looking for the Mona Lisa from grease here!

Here's a NY Times article on changes in the global pork supply.

Big Box Stores

Here's a page of NY Times articles on Walmart.

PBS's Store Wars site

PBS links to "big box stores" search

Here's a site with lots of interesting things about Wal-Mart.

Pros and Cons of Wal-Mart, nicely collected for your use :)

Car culture

Here's a NY Times article on the joys of commuting.

Car culture in Saudi Arabia.