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Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire
You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight."
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Six ways to save time and energy in the kitchen
Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to get your kitchen organized. Here are some tips that will help you cook delicious meals from scratch quickly and easily, and waste less of that seasonal produce you're buying.
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Buy a breath of 'Fresh Air' in Hong Kong
Oxygen bars are so Japan circa 1997. Huffing canisters of "Fresh Air" is where it's at. Take a look at the breezy infomercial.
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How will you keep walruses from learning to fly?
That's what I consider the core message to be of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's cute animated video about climate change's effects on sea creatures. See what I mean.
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Colorado town won't play nice with bicyclists — but its casino will
You may remember the small town of Black Hawk, Colo., for its recent ban on cycling because bikes were getting in the way of all its casino traffic. Which makes it the perfect destination for a bicycling group's next getaway, says one Black Hawk casino.
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Discovery hostage taker was a population-obsessed eco-wacko
It's not often that natalism makes the news -- and with guns and hostages, no less! But population is in the headlines today thanks to James J. Lee, the eco-wacko hostage-taker.
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How to restore the Colorado River
Jonathan Waterman, author of Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River, brought together two experts from either end of the river to talk about what's happened to the Colorado over the years, and how to get more water flowing in the future.
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My Intentional Life: Hot Flies in the Summertime, Part 2
The roommates try to deal with an infestation of white flies in their new urban garden. Check out the web comic!
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Guerrilla art takes bike activism to the streets [SLIDESHOW]
In homage to those positive and creative forces pushing non-gas pedals across the nation, we invite you to strap on a helmet and steer yourself through these artistic examples of bike activism taken quite literally to the streets.
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Fewer and fewer young people are driving — but why?
American teenagers simply don't drive as much as they used to. But should we really chalk it up to the internet and the digital revolution?
