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Business
How Christmas Tree Farms Can Help Wildlife
It may seem counterintuitive to support the annual culling of trees, but environmentalists say Christmas tree farms have ecological benefits.
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Business
Sharp Drop in Airfares Cheers Inflation-Weary Travelers
Airlines are starting to offer bargain prices, including to popular overseas destinations like Paris, a sign that they are fighting to fill planes.
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World
A Glimpse Into Spain’s Future, Where Water Comes by Truck, Not Tap
Residents of Pozoblanco and 22 other villages in the country’s south have had to get their drinking water from tankers since April, when the reservoir serving the area dried up.
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Magazine
Radicchio Is in Season — And in Style
Increasingly, the vegetable is becoming a mainstay of contemporary American cuisine.
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Arts
Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
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World
Roadblocks and Red Tape: New York’s Cannabis Effort at a Crossroads
The state solicited entrepreneurs with cannabis convictions to open the first legal dispensaries, but the effort has fallen behind.
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World
California, Stop Parching Your Neighbors
LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA — If the Colorado River continues to dwindle from the same arid trend of the last two decades, it could take as little as two bad drought years to drive the reservoir here on the Arizona-Nevada border to “dead pool ...
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World
Ronald Blythe, Scribe of the English Countryside, Dies at 100
He was best known for his 1969 book “Akenfield,” but he was also beloved for his many essays and columns about rural life in his native Suffolk.
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World
Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better.
After an economic collapse and political upheaval, Sri Lankans have become resigned to leaner meals and reduced horizons.
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World
His Job Description? Protecting German Democracy. Literally.
Thomas Haldenwang runs Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution. His mission is to fight the enemies of German democracy — from far-right coup plotters to Russian hackers.
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