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China says ‘no’ to genetically engineered rice

The origins of rice cultivation can be traced to the valleys of China’s Yangtze River, with some estimates putting it at over 7,000 years ago. In that time, rice has become an integral part of Chinese life and culture. It dictates the lives of millions of farmers in the Chinese countryside, feeds over a billion [...]

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Bald is Beautiful

by Shoot 4 Change

A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were that day and I collected their stories too. Some of them have alopecia, some have been through chemotherapy, others [...]

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The Music of Trees

by Moments Count

From Michelle Werts for American Forests As covered in the autumn issue of American Forests, tree rings tell compelling stories. Far from just revealing a tree’s age, they record natural events like volcano eruptions, the history of civilizations like the Roman and Aztec Empires and other moments in time. And, now, they make music. Yes, [...]

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A Nutritional Clue Offers Hope for Military Suicides

by Lily Casura

It’s not often enough that we get to report some good news about suicide and the military — for months now, the numbers have been climbing in the wrong direction, with few notable exceptions to the trend. However, just recently, a development from a most unusual quarter shows some true promise for the future. And for those [...]

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For the Want of a Home

by Moments Count

From Bronwyn Harris for Teaching Tolerance: Like many of us, I sometimes overuse the word “need.” I have a tendency to say that I need the new iPhone or I need a pedicure, even though those are clearly things that I want, rather than need. My greatest lesson on distinguishing between a want and a [...]

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Manners and Relationships, Over the Centuries, Are Like a Horse and Carriage

by Rochelle Burns

I have always been fascinated by manners. Specifically, why have we used them over the centuries when dealing with others? Perhaps, bopping people over the head didn’t work as well as being pleasant. So, like the duo of a horse and carriage – you give, they feel good – manners took off. There are, of [...]

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Digital Afterlife

by Moments Count

From Robert A MacDonald for The Sun: Peggy was dying. She had battled cancer for years, but at the age of 45 she was losing her fight. A wife and stay-at-home mother of three children in Ventura, Peggy had caught the online bug and couldn’t stop writing about what was happening to her and the [...]

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Did David Attenborough Behave Unethically?

by Chris Palmer

Earlier this month, the Daily Mirror in Great Britain revealed that famed zoologist David Attenborough, for his 7-part television series Frozen Planet, filmed polar bears in a zoo while leading viewers to believe that the animals were filmed in the subzero Arctic wilderness. The Daily Mirror scoop led to negative publicity for the BBC, including [...]

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A Post About Empathy

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Years ago, I was doing a lot of business travel. And I do mean a lot. I was supplementing my writing income as a public speaker. It got out of hand, at least by my standards. I was on the road for about a third of the year. One day I was exhausted and trying [...]

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Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

George Lucas, producer director of some of the most profitable films in Hollywood history (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), has been working on Red Tails, an action-packed, special effects-laden World War II movie for 23 years. He paid for it himself. He figured a studio would eventually come in and pay for distribution and publicity. [...]

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