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Natural Perspectives: The latest buzz on gardening
There's a new bug in town, and it's a bad one. The Bagrada bug, a.k.a. harlequin or painted bug, is an alien invasive insect that is spreading like wildfire throughout Southern California. It's a rather pretty creature with a black, shield-shaped body...
Tags: Agriculture, Kale, Pakistan, Mustard
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Seen and heard at the re-enactment site
People came from far and wide Friday to the site of this weekend’s Sesquicentennial Antietam Reenactment at Legacy Manor Farm off Bakersville Road. The Herald-Mail caught up with a few of them: Ralph C. Lincoln Berlin, Pa. Abraham’s Lincoln...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Judges, World War II (1939-1945), Battle of Antietam, Antietam National Battlefield
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Gibbons (apes) sing like opera stars
KIAHLadies and gentlemen, get your fancy dresses and tuxedos ready because we're going to talk about the opera...and gibbons. Not ZZ TOP's Billy Gibbons, the apes. Japanese scientists say gibbons and opera singers use the same techniques to project their...Tags: Opera (genre)
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Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says
World NowPeople across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of... -
Patience, perseverance pay for marathon champs
News-Review sports writerINDIAN RIVER -- Dustin Pearson of Indian River grew up around the Top O' Michigan Outboard Marathon Nationals. He's watched it many times, his uncle and cousin each have earned national titles in the two-day 80-plus mile race, and four years ago he...Tags: Waterford, Auto Racing, Boats
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Incredible, edible eggplant: Getting your kids to eat the purple vegetable
chrisc@herald-mail.comEditor's note: This is part of an occasional series on children eating vegetables. The series explores ways to highlight a vegetable's flavor and appearance as a way to work around the resistance some picky eaters have to trying unfamiliar vegetables....Tags: Vitamin B6, Dietary Supplements, Vitamin B1, Vitamin K, Tomatoes
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As Clinton visits, old U.S. bombs continue to kill, maim in Laos
World NowAs Hillary Clinton made the first trip to Laos by a U.S. Secretary of State in nearly six decades, activists urged the U.S. to step up its spending to clear the vast stretches of Lao land still littered with unexploded American bombs left over from its... -
The startling spirit of Malacca, Malaysia
What traveler hasn't landed in a dreamed-of destination and found it crawling with tourists, fast-food franchises, name-brand stores and dollar-a-beer bars? The good bones of Charleston, S.C., which made the World Monuments Fund's list of imperiled...Tags: Singapore, Malaysia, Business, Colonial Williamsburg, Tourism and Leisure
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In Indonesia, watching the sun rise with 504 Buddhas
Four a.m. is a terrible time of day, too late for night owls, too early for early risers. The exception is 4 a.m. at Borobudur, waiting for the sun to rise over the Kedu Plain in central Java with 504 figures of Buddha.
The temple is one of three great...Tags: Arts, Myanmar Earthquake (2011), Asia, Buddhism, Civil Unrest
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Book review: 'The Newlyweds' gives uncanny take on immigrant dream
The Newlyweds A Novel Nell Freudenberger Alfred A. Knopf: 342 pp., $25.95 Two-thirds of the way through Nell Freudenberger's second novel, her Bangladeshi narrator, Amina, wonders, "Why were some people attracted to what was unfamiliar, and others...
Tags: The New York Times, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Literature, Islam, The Boston Globe
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Political Corruption, Poverty, Assassinations, Democratic Party, The Washington Post
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Katmai National Park Volcano's Blast Still Biggest in Nearly 2 Centuries
Channel 2 NewsA Katmai National Park's eruption happened a century ago Wednesday -- but it is still the largest volcanic blast in nearly 200 years, easily loud enough to have been audible 290 miles away where Anchorage now stands. On June 6, 1912, the Novarupta...Tags: Landforms, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, National Parks, U.S. Geological Survey
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