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With a box full of carrots and a hankering for something vaguely exotic, Mary-Claire van Leunen turned to her computer for a recipe. “I looked for `Turkish carrots’ and I found it easily, in fact I found half a dozen,” said the retired Seattle software researcher. Everyone’s done it, fired up a search engine to [...]
With a little cross-breeding and some determination, Dr. Dariusz Malinowski, Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist and forage agronomist in Vernon, is trying to add more colors to the world of hibiscuses. Malinowski is working on breeding winter-hardy hibiscus in what started as a hobby about four years ago, but in the last year has been [...]
Men prefer women with small feet – though they might not be aware of it, says a new study. Jeremy Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University at Albany, New York, and his colleague Michelle Rowe measured hand length, foot length, thigh length and hip width on 60 white female college students, then adjusted each [...]
We have a summer’s worth of picnics and celebrations ahead of us. The trick, of course, is making those events memorable and delicious, without making them labor-intensive. And a spectacular dessert that showcases summer’s bounty leaves a gorgeous, lasting impression. So, we turned to two cookbook authors — notable chefs and food writers whose books [...]
The consistent growth trajectory in the export of cosmetics and toiletries could be exploited by entrepreneurs of Madurai region, which has good potential for the essential oil industry, according to Smita Samant, Executive Director, Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Promotion Council (CHEMEXIL). Addressing reporters here on Saturday, Ms. Smita said that the export of [...]
A survey has revealed that teenagers are addicted to online computer games, social networking sites and e-mails and discovered that many of them find it hard to control how much time they spend online and often feel depressed. Now mounting concern over the effects of constant computer use on the mental health of Britain’s teenagers [...]