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It’s come to this: the flowers in Regent’s Park in London may soon be replaced by vegetables.

The park may be divided up into parcels so that city residents can grow their own vegetables. In the Guardian newspaper, Sam Jones quotes parks’ executive Colin Buttery as saying, “We very much want to support the idea of people growing their food by doing small-scale demonstrations.” His idea was actually inspired by the communal vegetable gardens that have been created in many US cities.

Jones quotes sustainable foods expert Ben Reynolds, of Sustain as saying, if food shortages and prices continued increasing, and climate change gets worse, “We’ll get people saying ‘Well, bugger this, if I can’t get the food I want, I’ll grow it myself.'”
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Whatever happened to the electric car? It moved to Norway.

The “Think” car is a 2,500 pound car with plastic body panels and a range of 112 miles on a full electrical charge. Can it make it in the US? If it does, Ford Motor Company will be mightily embarrassed!

The company making the new car, which was originally called Pivco, started up in 1991 and 7 years later had built over a thousand cars. In 1999, it was purchaed by the Ford Motor Compnay, which renamed the company Think Nordic, because the cars were so popular in Norway. In 2003, Ford sold the company to a Swiss firm, which went bankrupt in 2006.
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…still work today – Wish you could go to a luxurious spa and have a massage, but don’t have the time or money? You can give YOURSELF a massage! And if you’re having trouble sleeping, practicing tai chi chih, the Westernized version of a 2,000-year-old Chinese martial art, works better than sleeping pills.

Based on medical traditions more than 2,000 years old, Chinese self-massage techniques can help release tension and reduce anxiety?without the cost of visiting a professional therapist. Called Dao yin (DOW-in), these techniques are part of a larger branch of Chinese medicine called qi gong (che-kung), meaning “energy work,” which aims to maintain and restore balance and harmony of the body’s various parts.
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It helps to eat the right foods! – Scientists are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, into patients with advanced forms of cancer. A similar treatment using white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly successful, curing 100% of lab mice with advanced malignancies. The donors will be healthy young people who have been identified as having immune systems that produce white blood cells with high levels of cancer-fighting activity.
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