Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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High Food Prices, Revolutions, and the Future

Experts say high prices helped cause the Arab Spring and will stay high unless production expands | AGRICULTURE REPORT

A vendor exchanges money with a customer at a shop selling garlic, onions and potatoes at a wholesale market in Mumbai. India's food price index rose 8.76 percent in the year to April 16, government d

Kim, Havel: Remembering Two Very Different Leaders

One was a second-generation communist ruler, the other a writer who led a democratic revolution | IN THE NEWS

A mourner lights a candle in remembrance of Czech statesman Vaclav Havel in Prague

How Freud Changed What People Thought About the Mind

Examining Sigmund Freud's influence on the science of mental health. | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

Sigmund Freud

In Praise of City Living

Also, learning to find food in the wild. And a chorus of refugee girls sings a message of hope | THIS IS AMERICA

Harvard economist Edward Glaeser makes the case for city living in "Triumph of the City"

The Hottest Electronic Gifts in 2011

Holiday wish lists included tablet computers, laptops, TVs, e-readers and video games | TECHNOLOGY REPORT

A shopper in California guides her televisions out of a store last month

American History: Ford Leads Nation After Nixon Resigns

Gerald Ford, an accidental president, had to deal with the effects of the Watergate crisis and the Vietnam War | THE MAKING OF A NATION

President Gerald Ford testifies at a House of Representatives hearing in 1974 on his pardon of Richard Nixon

Education Group Gives $170 Million to 7 Countries

A global partnership awards grants to Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Mongolia and four other nations | EDUCATION REPORT

Members of the partnership's board of directors visit a school in Kigali, Rwanda

Religion Gets Largest Share of Charity in US

More than one-third of charitable giving by Americans goes to religious organizations. Schools are second | ECONOMICS REPORT

Charity workers dressed as Santa Claus pass St. Patrick's Cathedral  in New York City in an annual parade to raise money for a holiday food program for needy residents

Christmas Mix: What's New in Seasonal Songs

Music from holiday albums by Justin Bieber, Michael Buble, the "Jersey Boys" and others | AMERICAN MOSAIC

A Warner Brothers photo of Justin Bieber handing out toys to students at Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 16. Bieber and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" presented the students with $100,000 in toys for the holidays.

Short Story: 'Angelina's Dress'

A young girl wants something beautiful to wear for a very special event | AMERICAN STORIES

Progress in Fighting Snakebite Deaths

Recent findings suggest that a chemical rubbed on the skin could slow the flow of venom into the blood | HEALTH REPORT

An eastern diamondback rattlesnake at the home of Chuck Hurd, a Virginia man who collects poisonous snakes

Picking Apart the Timeless Appeal of 'The Nutcracker'

The story of one of the world's most popular ballets begins in a theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 18, 1892 | EXPLORATIONS

A publicity photo of the New York City Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker." The production was shown live last month in hundreds of movie theaters nationwide. The ballet company joins a growing trend of HD transmissions of cultural events in movie the
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