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One World Trade Center, whose completion has been consistently delayed, has finally reached 100 stories high. The green skyscraper rises on the 16 acre site that once held the Twin Towers. When completed,
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(Could we have a collective 'awww' here?) From Kids Soup , this Teddy Bear Toast features bananas for ears and snout, raisins for eyes and nose, and he gets his golden glow from a swipe of butter and a sprinkling of cinnamon and sugar.
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E’ possibile insegnare alle scimmie a comunicare con noi attraverso il linguaggio dei segni? E’ quello che voleva scoprire il dottor Herbert Terrace della Columbia niversity di New York quando all’inizio degli anni ’70 diede avvio al suo rivoluzionario”progetto Nim”. Nim Chimpsky era uno scimpanzé di due settimane, chiamato così per parodiare il nome di Noam Chomsky, linguista e intellettuale fra i più influenti del XX Secolo ( chimp in inglese significa appunto scimpanzé).
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Take a look at these baskets by Joe Hogan which take a time-honoured traditional craft and combine it beautifully with a true sense of artistic expression. Hogan, who has been making baskets at Loch na Fooey in Galway, Ireland since the late seventies has quite rightly earned a reputation for making strong, durable baskets of the highest quality in both traditional patterns, but also in contemporary forms. Using willows grown at Loch na Fooey, Hogan incorporates natural colours and textures into his works; but it's these unique… more
M.E. Design Magazine
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Brendon Grimshaw was editor to some of the most important newspapers in Africa. But in 1972, he gave it all up to go and live on Moyenne Island, which he purchased for ten thousand pounds. In the thirty-six-years that he has lived on the island, Brendon and his friend, Rene Lafortune, planted sixteen-thousand trees, built 4,8 kilometres of nature paths, and brought and bred 110 giant land tortoises, creating an island of incredible beauty now worth 34 million Euros. Come with us on this journey and discover why an 82-year-old man fears his island will one day be destroyed by the ever-expanding reach of our insatiable desires...