• Downhill skiing
  
  
• Modern day history, politics, and literature
  Alaska Daily News
  Der Spiegel
  The New Republic
  
  
• Support of democratic oppositions to totalitarian regimes: Amnesty International
  
  
• Soccer and bicycling
  
  
• Psychiatry and mental illness
  • Barondes, S.H, 1998: Mood genes, hunting for the origins of mania and depression. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, NY, 237pp.
  • Redfield Jamison, K., 1995: An unquiet mind, a memoir of moods and madness. Vintage Books, New York, NY, 224pp.
  
  
• Friend and debating partner par excellence: Siegfried Reiprich
  
  
• Recent Readings:
  • Bockstoce, J.R., 1986: Whales, ice, and men, the history of whaling in the western Arctic. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Wa, 400pp.
  • Chatwin, B., 1989: What am I doing here. Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY.
  • Chatwin, B., 1987: The songlines. Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY, 294pp.
  • Conquest, R., 1990: The Great Terror, a reassesment. Oxfort University Press,
  • Kurlansky, R., 1997: Cod, a biography of the fish that changed the world. Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY.
  • Garcia-Marquez, G., 1997: News of a kidnapping. Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY, 291pp.
  • Powers, C.T., 1998: In the memory of the forest. Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY, 384pp.
  • Wheeler, S., 1999: Terra Incognita, travels in Antarctica. Modern Library, New York, NY, 351pp.
  • Wheeler, S., 199x: Travels in a thin country: A journey through Chile. Modern Library, New York, NY, 3xxpp.
  
  
  

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