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Homegrown lemon grass: two varieties of a singular taste
One of the stands of lemon grass in the middle of the Vermont Square Community Garden is in full flower now, a somewhat unusual occurrence. It’s not a particularly attractive phase for the plants, which look like overgrown weeds on their last legs....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Malaysia, Lemons, Herbal Medicines
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What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?
Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...
Tags: Key West, Diving, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: Armed Forces, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Apple iPhone, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions
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Vietnam, 50 years on
HANOI, Vietnam -- It has been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. "advisers" to South Vietnam to help battle the communist North and 37 years since the end of that divisive war and the country's unification under Communism. Today,...Tags: China, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Investments
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The Right Side of Asia
There’s no other destination on the planet quite like the islands off the coast of eastern Asia — where a vast natural landscape and pristine marine life offer ideal year-round outdoor activities like hiking, biking and diving. Taiwan and...
Tags: China, Mountains, Landforms, Arts and Culture, Hobbies
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Stanley Karnow dies at 87; author of epic Vietnam history
Stanley Karnow, an award-winning author and journalist who combined insightful reporting with personal accounts and historical sweep in books on the Vietnam War and the Philippines and the critically acclaimed public television series that accompanied the...Tags: China, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Audrey Hepburn, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Journalism
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From Afghanistan to Montana: War vets find solace fly-fishing in a new documentary
In the affecting new documentary "Not Yet Begun to Fight," a sound engineer is caught on film asking for a cigarette from one of the film's subjects, a Marine corporal from Evansville, Ind., named Erik Goodge, who lost an eye when he was wounded in...
Tags: Kate Winslet, Hospitals and Clinics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Hurt Locker (movie), Dick Wolf
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Vietnam releases American activist accused of subversion
An American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government was freed Wednesday and sent home to Southern California to rejoin his family, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. The unexpected decision...
Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Department of State, Civil Rights, Corporate Crime, Human Rights
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Obama needs Hagel in the Pentagon
Absent from the discussion about whether former Senator Chuck Hagel would make a good secretary of defense is any focus on lessons learned from personal factors like combat in war, as well as loyalty to the president. As I was grousing about this, my...
Tags: Armed Forces, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, David Petraeus, Defense
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Petoskey musician hosts benefit concert
Kayla Jo Cross, a 2009 Petoskey High School graduate, will perform — among other local talents — during a benefit concert on Saturday, Dec. 8, an effort to raise funds for her trip with the Global Service Corps, an international service...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Buddhism, Music, Human Interest, Trips and Vacations
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The Week in Pictures | September 10 – 16, 2012
FrameworkThe Week in Pictures from around the world....
Mar 20, 2013
|Column| Imperial Valley Press Online
Mar 12, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 2, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 23, 2012
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Dec 28, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 27, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 30, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 2, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 7, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Sep 14, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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