The agency that owns the New York City region's airports, bridges and tunnels is gearing up to go green.

Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly, Harvard University Press £22.95 - This book provides the best historical record yet of how our culture was shaped by the acceptance of birth control. Published by Harvard University Press, and "generously supported by Columbia University", it also represents disillusionment by leading American thinkers as it "uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry".

Fluoridation is a 1950's failed concept. Legislators have the science but lack the political will to stop fluoridation.

Two stories showed up today that form nightmarish bookends for a subject that most Americans never knew about and the rest thought was long dead: eugenics, the social-darwinist pseudoscience popularized in the early 20th Century that sought to engineer the perfect race by encouraging the procreation of the well-heeled and by forced sterilization of the poor and the different--anyone deemed to have defective "germ plasm."