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Scientists in Israel are growing date plants from 2,000-year-old seeds. Dr. Elaine Solowey, director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture of the Arava Institute, and Dr. Sarah Sallon, director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center of Hadassah Hospital, harvested 111 ancient Judean dates from 2,000-year-old seeds. The ground-breaking agriculture techniques to make the seemingly botanically impossible feat possible grabbed global headlines in 2020. Dates from the date-palm tree Hannah. Photo: Debbie Eisner Israelis eat the most chicken per person in the world. Israelis eat a whopping 64-kilograms (141 pounds) of poultry per person, the highest per capita consumption in the world according to OECD and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development statistics. The world average of chicken-per-person, according to the OECD report, sits at 31.3 kg. ....
Cass Tech junior wins national US scholarship pageant and wants to inspire others By Hilary Golston and David Komer online producer Published DETROIT (FOX 2) - Alana Harris is a junior at Detroit Cass Tech High School and is on a mission to inspire. It doesn t matter if people are not going to like you for it, just do what you want to do. You never know the outcome, she said. I don t have a perfect body. I m kind of insecure about it. My mom doesn t have a perfect body, my sister doesn t either. Cass Tech junior talks about winning Miss Michigan High United State pageant ....
The coronavirus outbreak and mostly male Capitol rioters took away what should’ve been a historic celebration. But women, as always, will persist and party on. ....
This inauguration was supposed to be women’s chance to celebrate Petula Dvorak Farah Mack had her hotel and her flight all booked. It was going to be her first time in D.C. for an inauguration. And it was going to be personal. As a Black woman with Jamaican roots and a degree from a historically Black university, Mack, 47, felt a connection with Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, an Indian-Jamaican woman who graduated from Howard University. And even though the novel coronavirus was going to constrict the celebration, Mack wanted “to be in the space and share the energy” when such sacred history was made. ....
The creator of the tremulous pirate saw the Sixties through an improbable cardinal of his own invention 19 December 2020 • 4:10pm John and Priscilla Ryan in his studio with a papier-mâché model of Captain Pugwash made by schoolchildren Credit: Christine Boyd Apart from Captain Pugwash, the most memorable creation of the cartoonist John Ryan was Cardinal Grotti. There were other contenders – Harris Tweed, Extra Special Agent, the bumbling sleuth featured in The Eagle throughout the Fifties, or the villain in Sir Prancelot, Count Otto the Blot, based on an employer of Ryan’s. Cardinal Grotti might embody an unreal stereotype as much as the pirate Pugwash, with his cutlass, striped jersey and skull-and-crossbones hat. But the cartoon churchman also marked a historical divide. ....