Acknowledgements

For critiquing the manuscript, thanks to: Maya Arth, Greg Arth, David and Chen Kan Arth, Andy Berwick, Dady Blake, Michael Brown, Bobby and Sheri Bush, Jim Chesher, Kim Comstock, Gary Davis, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Evelyn A. R. Gubai, Linda Knutson, Julia Lee, Michael McGinnis, Merri Reid, Sydney Solis, Andrea Sommers, Dan Stephens, Sherry Strickland, Julie Spier, Amy Toner, Kathie Walter, Mike and Kerry Wiest. I especially thank Stephen S. Taylor Jr., for lending his support and criticism on this project.

Thanks to economist Milton Friedman for an interview on economics and the legalization of drugs. Thanks to my sister-in-law, Chen Kan Arth, for her Chinese translations, interpretations, and insights. On NATO, and drug policy in Holland, thanks also to Sari Van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, former member of Dutch parliament and former vice-president of NATO. Special appreciation goes to Zoë Topsfield, a lawyer, for her help in making the financing of this project possible. Zoë gets a special dispensation from every negative thing I write about lawyers in Labor I. Other attorneys who get thanks as well as reprieves from Shakespeare’s famous jibe about killing all lawyers are Dady Blake and Lester West.

For interviews concerning women’s issues, thanks to Kajsa Asklöf, journalist, in Gothenburg, Sweden; Priya Kesare in Bombay; Inger Kvamstun in Oslo; and Madhavi Mudgal in New Delhi. Thanks to archeologist Alexander Marshack, Harvard University, for our discussion regarding the dating of the 250,000 year old Berekhat Ram “Venus figurine,” which I viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Thanks to physicist John Schwarz of the California Institute of Technology for putting up with my questions about string theory. (Schwarz, together with Michael Green of Queen Mary College in London, came up with the term “Theory of Everything” (TOE).

Thanks to officer Kim Fryslie and the Santa Barbara Police Department for the ride-along. In Rotterdam, thanks to Herman Ilbrink, Brigadier of police, and J. de Vlieger “Illicit Drugs Expert” of the Rotterdam Police Department for their help and interviews. Thanks to Nora Storm and the junkies of the Junkie Union (Junkiebond); the anonymous marijuana shop employees, and Dominee Hans Visser, pastor of the Pauluskerk on Mauritsweg (in Rotterdam) for their interviews on the subject of drugs in Holland.

Thanks to the following demographers for their interviews on the population problem: Stan Becker, Ph.D., Professor at John Hopkins University; Valentina Bodrova, Ph.D., Director of Population, Women and Family Programs at the Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research. Moscow; Joseph Chamie, Director, Population Division, United Nations; Professor Todisco Enrico, Universita’ Delli Studi “La Sapienza” Rome; Dr. Wendy Ewart, The Welcome Trust, Population Studies Program; Jason L. Finkle, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus at the Center for Population Planning, U. of MI, Ann Arbor, MI; ; Dr. Zanjari Habibollah, Professor of Demography, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran; Abdullahel Hadi, Ph.D. Senior Research Sociologist & Coordinator, Watch Project, Research and Evaluation Division. BRAC Center, Dhaka, BangladeshBipin B. Hota, Ph.D., Orissa, India; Gavin Jones, Ph.D., Demography program, Australian National University; Dr. Firoz M. Kamal, Senior Medical Officer, Research. BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Dr. Mohammad Javad Mahmoudi, Director General, National Organization for Civil Registration for Population; Dr. Laourou Martin, Institut National de Statistique du Benin; Mauri Nieminen, Ph.D. Statistics Finland. Senior Adviser, Population Statistics; P.F. Selman, University of Newcastle, England; Dr. Krishnamurti Srinivasan, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India, New Delhi; Dr. Roy C. Treadway, Illinois State University; and Anatoly Vishnevsky, Ph.D., Moscow. I especially thank Anne and Paul Ehrlich for their critique of the Labor on Overpopulation.

Thanks also to the dozen anonymous sex workers I interviewed in the U.S., France, Holland, and Thailand.

Other interviews: Djo Lich Man Fang, Florence Fang, about their fish farm near Guangzhou; Kathleen Lau, restaurant owner in Guangzhou; Chou Mei Fang, Administration Manager, DKT International, Shanghai Office, China.

For helping me rebuild a former crack slum in DeLand, Florida, special thanks goes to preservationist and realtor Maggi Hall, my many workers and subcontractors, City Manager Michael Abels, Building and Safety Chief Charlie Taylor, Realtor Debbie Dunn, Barb Shepherd at the DeLand Beacon, Richard and Mary McMahan, Public Works Directors Bo Davenport, the DeLand Police Department, to the City and County Commissioners, and to former and current mayors, David Rigsby and Bob Apgar. Also thanks to those urban pioneers who also rebuilt houses in our transitional neighborhood, including Gena Swarz, Janet Bollum, the Hutchinsons, the Holders, the Tarackas, Patty Murray, Don Chase, and others.

A special thanks to Bill Lavino at Tinker Graphics for his diligence and patience in publishing my web pages.

Most of my daily news during the decade of research came from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Santa Barbara News-Press, the Daytona News-Journal, innumerable sources on the Internet, all of which were invaluable. The printed version of this book will have a complete bibliography, footnotes, and index.

There are many versions of the myth of the Labors of Hercules. I read a dozen or so different accounts (including some primary sources in translation, but most notably the overview in The Greek Myths by Robert Graves), and then shamelessly crafted from them an account that best suited my purpose. My loyalty was generally not to a particular agenda or ideology, but to the truth-seeking process. It is inevitable in a book of this scope and complexity that there will be mistakes. If the reader finds any errors, or can propose bigger problems or better solutions, please contact me and I will correct or note them in the revised edition. Except where otherwise noted, all artwork, architectural plans, illustrations, photographs and charts are by the author.

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