Far from his Pasadena home, nutritionist Steven Kwon stood before Afghan government officials and agronomists in Kabul three years ago, extolling the virtues of protein-rich soybeans as a way to curb the rampant malnutrition in the war-torn nation.
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IT WAS easy to let my imagination run wild about “Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus,” written by retired prelate Geoffrey Robinson, auxiliary Catholic bishop of Sydney, Australia, for two decades.
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Eight years ago, Dave Dixon set himself some lofty goals, especially for an unemployed, twice-divorced middle-aged man with no savings.
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For half a century, Ignacio Lujano has worked the orange groves of San Juan Capistrano, laboring from sunrise to past sunset six days a week to coax the largest and sweetest harvest possible from his Valencia and navel trees.
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As a farm boy in Norway, Fred Kavli vowed to one day make an impact on mankind that would last for centuries.”I was always ambitious,” the soft-spoken multimillionaire says with a chuckle as he sits in the living room of his 12,000-square-foot, oceanfront home in Santa Barbara.
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A young woman walked into a restaurant last week and sat close enough to get a good look at Anne Hjelle’s face.
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The Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay
$50 million to 110 Eskimos to settle claims of sexual abuse by
priests and missionaries in some of the world’s most remote villages.
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I quickly began to feel like a wolf, lying in wait for the weak and vulnerable.
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In the movie “For Love of the Game,” announcer Vin Scully refers to the pitching mound at Yankee Stadium as the “loneliest spot in the world.”
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Being a member of the paparazzi was a lot like being a fisherman.
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