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It seems like everyone wants to cultivate some of their own food these days, even those folks not lucky enough to have access to land.

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers cannot keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it is already boiling over.

A map of ancient Egypt, made with Inkscape. The map shows the Nile up to the fifth cataract, and major cities and sites of the Dynastic period (c. 3150 BC to 30 BC). Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities.

We recently covered truckers protesting the high price of diesel, but truckers aren’t the only people concerned about rising fuel costs.

Would love to have a bike but keep getting it ripped off and don’t think you have space for one in your apartment?

France has made contact with pirates who hijacked a French luxury yacht off Africa’s eastern coast with 30 crew members on board, the French foreign minister said Sunday.

Topless Charter boat booted from marina for not having ‘a family show.’ Owner vows to keep fighting. WPTV reports.

“As far as I know, Kumi’s journal is ‘only’ suspended for 14 days in order to create a window for someone to file legal proceedings.”

Farouk I of Egypt ‎ (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.

“Now don’t mistake me. I’m not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty. Its efficiency.”

Sometimes a fire just won’t go out. Uzbekistan is home to a place called Darvaz, nicknamed by locals “the door to hell.” It’s a semi-underground gas fire that’s been burning nonstop for 35 years.

A new Bill And Ted movie finally got the green light — probably from the same people at MGM who thought that War Games sequel was a good idea — and it could show up in the next couple of years.

Rinderpest, an animal disease that plagued livestock and their human keepers across Eurasia and Africa for millennia, may be on the verge of joining smallpox as the only viral diseases to have been eradicated in human history.

I thought I should share with you this great “ComingAnarchy.com-esque” television series I have been watching: Reilly – Ace of Spies.

Former Sen. George Mitchell, who helped administer the Good Friday accord ending sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, talks to Lynn Neary about the legacy of the 1998 agreement.

If science fiction is really about the present, then it’s no surprise that the longstanding tensions between the United States and Middle Eastern countries should make itself known in tales of “desert planets.”

Severed spines may not mean paralysis for much longer. Inject a special gel into mice with severed spinal cords and six weeks later the mice are back on their feet.

Although Dan Simmons’ literary-allusion-packed Hyperion novels have long been loved and critically-acclaimed, they’ve always seemed to resist conversion into film.

This map, used in a Mexican ad campaign, shows what the US-Mexican border would look like in an ‘absolut’ (i.e. perfect) world: a large part of the US’s west is annexed to Mexico.

The early Antarctic explorers walked for miles in freezing temperatures, pulled sledges of supplies and scientific samples, fell into crevasses, lost animals, lost men, dealt with frostbite, hunger, loneliness and isolation.

Cruise down San Francisco’s streets and into businesses from your home computer as part of a new online service premiering Monday.

Few scandals in recent years have provoked as much anger and dismay across Europe as the saga of Max Mosley, the overseer of grand prix motor racing who made tabloid news last weekend in a front-page exposé and accompanying Web video showing him in a sad

Plumpy’nut, more commonly known as Plumpy, is a peanut-based food for use in famine relief which was formulated in 1999 by André Briend, a French scientist.

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