MITZPE RAMON, Israel — In the Negev Desert, the sun beats down on a parched landscape of brown, undulating hills. But on a parcel of land here in southern Israel, trees grow in green rows, and fat bunches of grapes dangle amid lush leaves. This is not a desert apparition. It is a research vineyard,…
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A gigantic steel cylinder shines in the afternoon sun outside The Plant, a 93,500-square-foot “living food laboratory” here. To the untrained eye, it looks like a space rocket. But it’s not. It’s an anaerobic digester. Bubbly Dynamics, the organization that nine years ago converted this former meatpacking facility into a hub for local food businesses,…
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At an insect farm in Cape Town, the bugs are hungry. More than 8 billion flies being raised in South Africa by the start-up company AgriProtein gobble 250 metric tons of food and farm waste, like corn stalks, potato peelings and damaged vegetables, every day. “There’s actually no such thing as waste. It’s just stuff…
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Welcome to the Running newsletter! Every Saturday morning, we email runners with news, advice and some motivation to help you get up and running. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Dear Readers, When my mom called me last Saturday morning, she was a jangle of nerves. We were taking the train from…
DetailsNewly engineered gold based molecules look to be safer and more effective at fighting cancer than prominent platinum based therapies. New research zooms in on four gold molecules that may change cancer treatment. For the past few decades, platinum based cisplatin has been a compound of choice in the treatment of many cancers. It is…
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The Rev. Emily Jo Garcia and Omar Ali De Paolis were married Sept. 21 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The Rt. Rev. Alan M. Gates, an Episcopal bishop, performed the ceremony. The bride, 31, is an Episcopal priest and serves at the Church of the Redeemer as its priest for…
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Megan Marie Huntley and Tyler William Kupper were married Sept. 21 at the Tokeneke Club in Darien, Conn. The Rev. Charles H. Allen, a Roman Catholic priest, officiated. Mrs. Kupper, 30, is a vice president for sales and trading at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from Colgate. She is the daughter…
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Chaya Yvonne Crowder and Braxton Earl Cook were married Sept. 21 at the River Mill in French Camp, Calif. The Rev. Kevin K. Ross, the senior minister of Unity of Sacramento, officiated. The bride, 27, is a doctoral candidate in American politics at Princeton, from which she received a master’s degree in political science. She…
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On Friday night, as the co-host of her second state dinner since becoming first lady and thus a figurehead of the nation, as well as a symbol of her husband’s administration (whether she likes it or not; that’s the job), Melania Trump clothed herself in her now-signature aplomb and ambivalence. As fashion statements at major…
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On a typical morning, the self-help author Gabrielle Bernstein, 39, is up by 7 a.m. with her 9-month-old son, Oliver. Her husband Zach Rocklin, 42, an artist and the chief operating officer of his wife’s company, is in charge of feeding him. That’s when Ms. Bernstein heads upstairs to her “meditation loft” (also known as…
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