Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results. But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot. It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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Side-by-side articles on CNN illustrate why liberal appeals to religion always fail. The first introduces us to a modern martyr: When John Dominic Crossan was a teenager in Ireland, he dreamed of
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Because loyalty has its own rewards: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will expand the number of civilians involved in armed militias, providing guns to as many as 400,000 loyalists. The announcement
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I’m pretty sure this is not what Solomon meant: [T]here are millions of people throughout history who have actually swallowed the idea of urine as medicine. It is often called urotherapy. “Drink
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Behold, my first review on that site: If you were an actual story, my love, you would have a plot, that structure of narrative points that makes a tale comprehensible. It might
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Mount Holyoke College has some helpful hints to keep its professors from offending women who aren’t: Gender Neutral/Affirming Ways to Address Your Class When discussing the student body, say ‘Mount Holyoke students’
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Shortly after your wedding, once the reality of a single clothes hamper for you and her sinks in, you’ll be tempted, and maybe even asked, to do a load of laundry. This
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Sometimes snowflakes melt so hard you can hear them: EMMAUS, Pa. – “Complete and utter ignorance.” “Horrified.” That’s how people around Emmaus are reacting after finding out that for about three weeks
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After any number of grape tests here at Rancho d’El Borak, it turns out that the Concord seems to grow the best for me. Not as a wine grape, obviously – who wants
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The Dread Ilk known as Doom axes: I think you suggested you grow horseradish? I would like to do that as well… While speaking with my mother, though, she said she is
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