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Ancient pips reveal thirst for pleasures of the vine-Life & Style-Court & Social-TimesOnline Festivals 2007. Based initially on animal bones, the recent systematic recovery of plant remains and even coprolites fossilised faeces has led to a more broad-based understanding of ancient diets. Our earliest forebears seem to have scavenged for meat from carnivore kills, collected fruits and seeds, and grubbed for roots: some ten millennia ago people in the Middle East began to grow wheat,...

Then they slowly discover how they'll feed themselves, procuring everything from tender walnuts to mice-poop-filled wheat, and we discover along with them. Climate change is melting our ice caps; bees are dying mysteriously instead of pollinating blueberries; the oceans and rivers are becoming empty of fish. With this kind of stark news adding up, many of us find ourselves wanting to do something about it -- something big, something small, anything, so we feel we're at least helping...

Happy Mother's Day! For all our mothers, grandmothers, guardians and caregivers and all the special things you do for us each day, sit back and enjoy these four stories dedicated to mothers everywhere. What could be better on a sunny day than a picnic in the park? Jack, our little Mister Thoughtful, plans such an outing for his elegantly attired mother. In one of his breakthrough publications, three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner's illustrations provide the right amount of softness...

The Navy also wants the flat coastal land where Donald Stotesberry runs an air park that provides crop-spraying planes for local farmers. Joining the farmers in opposing the plan is an unlikely alliance that includes conservative property rights advocates, liberal environmentalists, the National Rifle Assn. The federal government seeks to seize this and much more, 30,000 acres in all, for a pilot training facility in rural eastern North Carolina swallowing up family farms and threatening...