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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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The known and unknown costs of Afghanistan

Posted on September 5, 2021September 11, 2021

We’ve heard many of the numbers. But what isn’t quantified may be more important. Some of the raw numbers The war lasted 7,262 days, according to The Conversation.com, a great daily news website. It cost the lives of 2,455 U.S. service members and tens of thousands of civilians. And the price tag to American taxpayers […]

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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?

The known and unknown costs of Afghanistan