Pacific Islanders Start Gardening during the Pandemic
January 03, 2021
Islands in the Pacific ocean have few Coronavirus infections. But some people started gardens to have more food for their families (Fiji Ministry of Agriculture via AP)
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Islands in the Pacific Ocean have few coronavirus cases. But the pandemic has caused problems by interfering with supplies, causing price increases and a loss of business from foreign visitors.
Many governments have started community projects to help their citizens with food shortages. They are extending fishing seasons, expanding food gathering training and supporting seed programs. These programs are helping residents to become more
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Dec 24, 2020
How did Charles Dickens beloved Christmas story become a trophy for a Wall Street titan?
By Zachary D. Carter
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Gather round, friends, and savor a holiday fable for our bitter age. As in the Charles Dickens classic
A Christmas Carol, the villain of this story is money. It features its own Ebenezer Scrooge and ghosts of moral compunction. But the ending of our tale has been adjusted: Money prevails and Scrooge dies miserable and rich, but not before buying off his ghosts and fashioning them into a museum exhibit.
That’s where I’m standing, in the annual Yuletide display of John Pierpont Morgan’s collection of Dickensia at the Morgan Library, the Madison Avenue monument to the excesses and undeniable good taste of the man who invented American banking as we know it. Specifically, I am standing in front of the original handwritten manuscript of