The 9 Healthiest Winter Vegetables www.bodyecology.com Winter is here and unless we live in warmer climates, many of us spend the majority of our time indoors. The gardens may be frozen over, but that does not mean we can't enjoy the bounty of the earth and use this winter to heal! Plenty of vegetab...

Melissa Breyer Homemade Fritos Jan 28, 2009 I noticed that January 29th is National Corn Chip day, and it got me thinking about the history of corn chips. In poking around, I found a fascinating story called The Birth of the Frito on NPR. Yes, the history of Fritos–fascinating! To make a long stor...

From the Chicago Tribune Recipe of the week Spam musubi Prep: 25 minutes Cook: 20 minutes Makes: 40 bite-size pieces Many musubi recipes are short on specific amounts or concise directions. This one, from the Hawaiian culinary Web site, On My Plate (onmyplate.org), is not. Musubi makers are hard to ...

Proposal Would Ease Forest Development Administration plans policy shift before inaugural by Karl Vick LOS ANGELES - The Bush administration appears ready to push through a change in Forest Service agreements that would make it far easier for mountain forests to be converted to housing subdivisions....

Plastic Surgeon Fuels Cars with Human Flab Joshua Holland, AlterNet December 26, 2008 Until his clinic was raided by health authorities and he skeedaddled to Latin America. OK, this is just bizarre:     A leading Beverly Hills plastic surgeon claims to have found an environmentally fr...

Dec 10 SANTIAGO, Chile – Madonna is causing "crazy enthusiasm" and "impure thoughts" on her first concert visit to Chile, a prominent retired cardinal complained on Wednesday, as he paused in a tribute to a late dictator to denounce the pop star. Roman Catholic Cardinal Jorge Medina criticized the...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-balloons9-2008dec09,0,4437087.story Defector reaches out to North Koreans by balloon December 9, 2008 Reporting from Incheon, South Korea — On a drizzly December morning, Lee Min-bok kneels on the cold ground near the North Korean border and cons...

Dec 4, 2008 Anand Gopal Editor’s Note: This piece is a joint project of TomDispatch.com and the Nation Magazine, where a shorter version appears in print. If there is an exact location marking the West’s failures in Afghanistan, it is the modest police checkpoint that sits on the main highway 20...

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HEAR, HEAR A new breed of homeowner is turning to music stylists and D.J.'s to create soundtracks for the home. Jessica and Billy Goldberg hired Audiostiles to mix tunes.   By Kate Murphy October 30, 2008 IMAGINE walking into an airy Upper East Side apartment with 18th-century antiques, gilt mi...