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May's Playboy was very good, with a great interview with Fareed Zakaria, the columnist for Newsweek, The Washington Post and a show on CNN. He is considered one of the best commentators on world events. It is a great interview...very insightful and very smart. Also a good piece of fiction by Ron Carlson and the baseball preview made it a very readable issue.

Zoonooz for May was...Zoonooz. Good article on the polar bears.

The highlight was the latest issue of Nat Geo...all about China. What a fabulous issue about the country as it is now, showing the greatness and the warts of this ancient land. And as much as you might root for ordinary Chinese, you also end up wondering if national policies will ruin the world even faster than U.S. policy regarding pollution and the environment. I was also left wondering if all of the history of China is being cast off, and will that eventually be a terrible thing for that nation. For instance, elderly are now being put into rest homes with more frequency, something that would not have been thought even a couple of decades ago.

Anyway, it was a great issue, and a great map insert of China to boot.