three cookies that you can fight over. but again, thank you very much for coming and have a good evening. [applause] is

i convened a symposium on the scholars there were only about four and most of them had imprisoned for 20 years and since then two of them have sadly died and the last one said to me you are the keepers of the flame now it's up to you. really? why. he was famous but only famous for the jungle. that's where it ends for most people and it's where his story began and how he became famous. my publisher may be used the term celebrity intellectual. that wasn't my idea. but it's true that he kind of invented the idea of being a celebrity like a matt damon or michael moore or that stands for something whose there is i know i'm famous, so you're going to listen to me talk about this.

he did that with the cold strike and he invented the idea of picketing the headquarters of rockefeller in new york city with black armbands to protest the massacre. and also the reporting in chicago with the jungle. there is so much more that i would like to say about him, but i hope that you will read my book. i hope that you will join me in the effort to not have him he disappeared from memory. i think that he has a lot to teach us whether it is about the politics of food. one of the central issues of his life. ten print, dare i say it, he was a very ardent temperance crusader because he was a child of an alcoholic and i think that as chris said, we can only understand sinclair best now we know about the syndrome of the children of alcoholics. we know what they go through and how they feel about alcohol.

that was him. he made a movie that was one of the very few that featured a temperance agent as a hero. you know, the guys that are trying to bust up the bootleg liquor places as a hero, and jimmy was in it and it had a grand purveyor of the chinese in la. they wouldn't even allow sinclair and because he didn't have a tux ego. there are so many stories i could tell.

when the islamic revolution hit, they were cut off from the west in part because of religious reasons. they had problems with using dead bodies and because the west shortly after imposed sanctions and they didn't have the resources, technolog the technoe

infrastructure to continue with this deceased organ donation. so they decided to focus on living donations. so the simpler sort of old-fashioned way of dealing with the transplant shortage. and this wasn't as irrational as you may think. because pd-90% of people that need organs or kidneys, so they focused on the largest part of the organization that needed help. while we focused on everybody. and we focused on finding the technology that we could to keep the organs viable and transfer them quickly and do everything we could get the to get them frm cadavers. this makes sense because like a person with risk of the kidney if you could get a cadaver. but if we went into different directions, iran spent 30 years in prison if living donor program quietly spent 30 years concentrating on the deceased

organ program. if you look at today there is an insight you can get. if you need a heart or liver, you better live here. if you need a kidney, be an iranian becaus because if you my qualified to get a kidney, you will get one. in the united states coming out ocome out ofthe 120,000 people d organs, 100,000 of them need kidneys. 15 to 20 americans die every day because they can't get a kidney, and that's not happening in iran. ..