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At Home: An Apple A Day What looks like an apple, smells like an apple, and tastes like an apple?but doesn’t turn brown like an apple? The answer: an apple. That is, an apple from the ?Arctic? variety bioengineered by a specialty fruit grower in Summerland, B.C. As the CBC reports, the new strain of… Read more »
It’s again time to use this space to wrap up loose ends; to bring you updates and closure; and to introduce teeny items that will never grow up to be full-blown, stand-alone columns. One. Regular readers will remember that in September, I sent a $40 cheque to an American company to research a 1934 mining… Read more »
The scene: a parking lot. The time: this morning, before dawn. Although most us were still snuggled into our comfortable beds in our warm houses, tens of thousands of people across the United States were sitting out on the concrete, huddled against one another and wrapped in quilts and blankets to keep warm in those… Read more »
The Christmas shopping season’s started, and the store aisles are teeming with gifts nestled into plastic packaging. Plastic packaging that will, unfortunately, be headed for landfills come December 26. During the holidays, some waste is going to be inevitable. But this year, when we give gifts, let’s also think about bestowing a gift upon the… Read more »
Book: Yishai Sarid, Limassol (Trans. Barbara Harshaw). Publisher: Europa Editions, 2010. ?I asked Haim if he had any idea of how to get Yotam off drugs. ?You won’t like what I tell you.? His red eyes groped for mine, he squinted slightly. ?You know what my answer is.? ?Opium for the masses,? I said. ?Exactly…. Read more »
The Africa Genesis Foundation (AGF) was born in the Labour Ward of Lwala Hospital in Northern Uganda in 1991 and was registered as a not-for-profit corporation in 1994 by American feminist theologian Dr. Colleen. The foundation is a joint American-African organization that fosters health improvements for underprivileged peoples in rural parts of Kenya, Uganda, and… Read more »
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Last Saturday, I shovelled my way to my art studio and cranked up the thermostat from 10 degrees Celsius to about 17. Next, I carried a two-gallon pail of warm water to use in two different plastic containers: the first to be filled with clear, clean water for moistening tools of the artist’s trade, and… Read more »
Need a reason to celebrate? Friday, November 26 is the loosely-designated National Cake Day, and this week’s links examine the popular dessert from all angles. Hungry yet? Grab your own favourite flavour of cake, and start clicking. Not Your Ordinary Cake Move over, boring birthday cakes. These masterpieces from a Russian cake decorator are less… Read more »