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Jeff Semler: Wheat, a valuable commodity
jsemler@umd.eduBy the time you read this, wheat harvest in the Cumberland Valley will be nearly finished. Washington County, for its efforts, will harvest about 350,000 bushels, ranking it 12th in the state. If you have ever doubted the significance of wheat and...Tags: Breads
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Jonah Goldberg: Taken in by 'Gay Girl'
I'd barely followed "A Gay Girl In Damascus" until last week, when Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart posted something to Twitter: "This is really important — this woman is a hero," with a link to a story about Amina Abdallah Arraf, a Syrian...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Politics, Gay Rights, U.S. Department of State, Democracy
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Astronaut pens view of God's creation from space
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe ancient people of the Levant — present day Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories — believed their gods lived on a massive mountain in the north. The Canaanites called it Mt. Zaphon, and to them it represented the heavens....Tags: Science, Space Programs, Religious Texts, Science and Technology, Book
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'Snow Dogs'
Special to The TimesRemember those live-action Disney features in which Dean Jones or, reaching back earlier, Fred MacMurray would play a hapless grown-up at odds with kids, animals and/or enchanted cars? Good, bad or indifferent, those movies were, for children of a certain...Tags: Entertainment, Plastic Surgeons, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Boxing, Hospitals and Clinics
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