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What do rice and beef have in common with climate change?

Posted on September 14, 2021

Rice and beef go together in all kinds of dishes, and for many in the world, these two (rice especially) are staples in the diet. But they are major impactors in climate change According to Xiaoming Xu and Atul Jain of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the two are major contributors to greenhouse gas […]

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Dad and Family Reunions

Posted on November 27, 2019

Thinking of family gatherings for Thanksgiving, I thought the following appropriate. It comes from my father’s Post Scripts book, a collection of his favorite columns and some I added: Last weekend I was subjected to one of those hectic and exhausting excursions that my good wife lovingly identifies as a “family reunion.” To me they […]

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‘It is required of a man that he share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.” In the blog that follows I hope to live up to those words from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This quote always appeared on my father's editorial page.

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What do rice and beef have in common with climate change?

Dad and Family Reunions