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Kalaripayattu fighters become airborne, as they engage in swordplay during a show in Kerala, India. The South Indian martial art is thought to be among the oldest in the world, tracing its roots back 3,000 years. Photograph by Armand Poblete for National Geographic.
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“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”
– televangelist Pat Robertson, The New York Times, March 7
There is a God! And, He / She helped Robertson find something intelligent to say. Someone catch me! I’m about to pass out!
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An abandoned structure, meant to be part of an overpass, now serves as a concrete island in the Yamuna River in Delhi, India. Photograph by Kevin Frayer/AP
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“Mainstream Catholics want leaders who can address the moral challenges of our day like income inequality, underwater mortgages and poverty, not leaders who perpetuate a never-ending culture war that divides our community.”
— James Salt, Catholics United Executive Director, explaining why Catholic voters are not casting ballots in favor of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is also Catholic.
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Voters fill out their ballots Tuesday at a polling station set up in Froehlich’s Classic Corner restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio.
Who said voting isn’t an art form?!
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“He’s got to go run in a Michigan again, but in a state where his dad wasn’t governor.”
– Republican consultant Alex Castellanos on Mitt Romney’s primary win in his boyhood state
And, Romney still can’t clinch the deal! If you kept up with yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” Republican primary fiasco, then you might be amused to know the GOP clown show will continue. I prefer Cirque du Soleil, but that’s just the artist in me. Besides, I like to get my money’s worth on things!
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Will Digital Editions Replace the Printed Cookbook?
Here’s an interesting aspect to the growing debate about traditional books vs. e-books. Will the growing trend in digital literature extend to cookbooks? I can see it now: a happy homemaker preparing dinner from a new recipe plastered atop the stove – via magnets affixed to the back of a Kindle. Hey, it could happen! Purists may never relinquish the love of touching paper (I count myself in this group), but even I know nothing can stop some technological advances. The traditional book vs. e-books argument reminds me of snail mail vs. email; thirty years back, no one would have thought we could send birthday greeting cards in a matter of seconds. And, just a decade ago not many people imagined reading a book on a mini-TV screen. But, cookbooks? For some reason, they seem to be the last bastion of the digital divide; the final holdout. Yet, in 2011, Jamie Oliver’s recipe apps were among the top downloads – both free and paid versions. Even the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has created a digital edition of its bible: The Professional Chef. Since e-books are still a new phenomenon, it’ll be fascinating to see if the printed cookbook will suffer the same fate as the electric typewriter. You’ll just have to wipe grease stains off the Kindle before storing it next to the old fashioned nutmeg!
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