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How To Make Cream Cheese (Wired News)
Harness the magic of bacteria-induced coagulation to produce a low-cost, healthy snack in your own home. Crafting your own cream cheese is a great way to learn about cheesemaking, and you'll be an expert in no time by following our guide.
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Swift Detects X-Ray Emissions from Comets (Universe Today)
Things appeared to get a little strange in the field of X-ray astronomy when the NASA/ESA ROSAT observatory started seeing emissions from a series of comets. This discovery in 1996 was a conundrum; how could X-rays, more commonly associated with hot plasmas, be produced by some of the coldest bodies in the Solar System? In [...]
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The economic downturn could make gleaners of us all (Concord Monitor)
A farm couple in Colorado opened their fields in November to gleaners, giving away what was left of their harvest. Expecting about 5,000 people to show up, they were shocked when 40,000 arrived. This might be a sign of the times. As the economy plummets, we enter an environment ripe for scavengers.
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CNN Student News Transcript: December 3, 2008 (CNN)
December 3, 2008
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Africa: An Aids-Free World Travel Diary - On the Road to a New UN Agency for Women (AllAfrica.com)
In September of this year, UN member states passed a resolution to move swiftly to create a new UN agency for women, a move, packaged with a series of reforms on governance and funding, that they hope will result in renewed public faith in the UN system.
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Beware. Triffids! (BBC News)
Why the enduring love affair with man-eating plants?
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Man eater: Remember those flesh-eating, semi-sentient plants? (BBC News)
A new BBC adaptation is being made of The Day of the Triffids, but why are we still prepared to believe in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by flesh-eating semi-sentient plants? And do we have a love affair with fictionalised destruction?
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I’m a founder member of the new crash generation (Evening Standard)
How I enjoyed being photographed for this column. A small woman with a massive camera came round to my office and took hundreds and hundreds of pictures.
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Heroes At The Taj (Forbes)
After a terrifying day, one eyewitness thanks his saviors.
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Johann Hari: The Two Faces of Amis: An Exclsuive Interview With Martin Amis (HuffingtonPost)
Martin Amis' tiny blonde daughter answers the door to their vast Primrose Hill house, beaming and waving - and then a moment later, the 58-year...
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