Now, Ms. O'Boyle meditates every day for 20 to 45 minutes.

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Through the timely story of the young "slumdog, " Boyle illuminates the contradictions of present day India -- the nuclear power that does not provide public sanitation for its population -- and Mumbai was the ideal city in which to do it.

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"Americans consume a billion meals a day -- the vast, vast, vast majority of them safely and enjoyably, " Boyle said.

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