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In 1999, David Letterman bought a 2,700-acre Montana ranch after avoiding celebrity country; he says the property has buffalo, horses, barbed wire and weeds
After his decision to leave late-night television, Letterman and wife, Regina Lasko, moved back to Indiana In 1999, television host...
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In 2001, Bear Grylls bought a remote Welsh island for £95,000; after four years rebuilding its only house, it now runs off-grid on wind, solar and harvested rainwater
In 2001, Bear Grylls bought a remote island off the coast of north Wales for £95,000. At the time, the...
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In 2024, New York turned 250 discarded Christmas trees into nearly 600 feet of breakwaters; by fall, the trees were trapping sediment around a restored salt marsh
What looked like holiday waste ended up helping rebuild a fragile salt marsh at Jamaica Bay, where the trees were...
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A former fuel-tank farm beside an Alaska national park visitor center has been erased; a young conservation crew restored 15,000 square yards of landscape and built 500 feet of new trail
The project also created about 500 feet of new pedestrian trail, connecting the visitor center with the Lakeview Tinitun trail...
Astrology
Why is modak Ganesha’s favourite? The story in the pleats
We’ve all eaten a modak once. The third pleat always gives it away. Pinch too hard, and the ukad, the...
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‘Die first, white man’: US university probes Nigerian-origin professor Uju Anya’s ‘threatening’ social media posts
Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review...
Astrology
Why does Lord Ganesha have only one tusk? Three stories, three different texts
Ganesha’s single tusk is in his prayers before it is in his idols. The Ganapati Atharvashirsha, a short Upanishadic text...
Astrology
Why is Ganesha’s idol immersed? What visarjan is really saying
On the night of Anant Chaturdashi, the sand at Mumbai’s Girgaon Chowpatty vanishes underfoot. A truck carrying a twenty-foot Ganesha,...
Astrology
Why does Ganesha look the way he does? Reading the idol from crown to Mouse
At the idol markets in Pen, the small Konkan town that supplies much of Maharashtra’s Ganesha idols every year, buyers...
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After 9/11, a New York aircraft carrier became an emergency headquarters for more than 500 FBI agents; 25 years later, it is still turning the tragedy into public service
The Intrepid wasn’t an independent FBI facility. The museum complex also assisted FEMA and state and local emergency responders during...
