Leaving Day Jobs, Novices Dig Into Farming MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND Mark Mills quit his steady job as a pastry chef for the unsteady life of a farmer. Making the decision took two things. Boundless enthusiasm, coupled with a little bit of ignoranc

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 April 2006 Olusegun Obasanjo Several Nigerian parliamentarians are pressing for a full investigation into an attempt to introduce changes to a draft bill before the assemb

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Nail Polish Business Booms In Weak Economy In a factory north of Los Angeles, glass bottles are filled, boxed and then shipped to more than 100 countries around the world. This is the home of OPI, a company that produces nail polish for women from th

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: To Cairo now for a story about another collector and collection. Amgad Naguib gathers ephemera - incidents of daily life like ticket stubs or photographs, letters, even disposable toothbrushes. He says these items tell the real his

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Unit 24 Is Beauty an Advantage? Is beauty an advantage? Does it make the beautiful individual powerful? Does it result in substantially better pay and opportunities in the workplace? Ten years ago, feminist author Woolf wrote about the beauty myth. W

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Seven skills for talents on twenty-first century Technical and technological skills will take on greater importance. They will be a growing need for people who can understand and fix systems, from computer systems to product distribution systems, to

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One of the world's most amazing migration is about to begin in earnest: 300 million monarch butterflies spread across North America are about to converge on small forests in the mounts of Mexico. This year, the butterflies have an unusual company as

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A tour by India's national cricket team to Pakistan early next year has been canceled. The move was widely anticipated, in wake of the terror attack on Mumbai which India blames on Islamic extremists from Pakistan. From left, former Olympian Milkha

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Actor Robert Davi Sings Sinatra After spending more than half of his lifetime making movies, Robert Davi has released Davi Sings Sinatra - On The Road To Romance . Coming from an Italian-American home you know there are two figures that you look up t

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Broadway Celebrates Legendary Cotton Club 百老汇庆祝传奇的棉花俱乐部 NEW YORK From the early 1920s to 1940, Harlems Cotton Club was the showplace for African-American performers in New York. 纽约从20世纪20年代早期到20世纪40年代

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Government-funded researchers hope to commercialize an idea called a mobile harbor. The developers aim to expand global shipping options while reining in carbon emissions. Kurt Achin | Seoul 04 January 2010 A computer simulation demonstrates how smal

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Beginners. Well, it's time for a new dog. For the past year, we have been a one dog family. But, you know, our dog, Rosie, is a wildly social lady. She goes crazy any time she meets another dog, a cat, a mouse, or a bird, let alone a human. But, the

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Petra: Hey, whats going on here? Why are all of you here in my apartment? Johann: Your family and close friends are here to perform an intervention. We feel that you have a problem that is negatively affecting your life and the lives of the people ar

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By Larry London Washington 12 March 2007 watch Good Charlotte Good Charlotte Band After selling 5 million albums and touring the world, edgy, street-smart punk rockers Good Charlotte delayed releasing their third album for one year. In an interview

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By Bernard Shusman New York 04 November 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (file photo) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei has given what amounts to his final report on gl

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