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Playing an educational?and?addictive computer game can actually help feed hungry people around the world.FreeRice is a multiple-choice vocabulary and trivia game in which every correct answer results in 10 grains of rice being donated to the United Nations World Food Program. The site, founded in 2007 and officially made a part of the UN food program this spring, has generated enough rice to feed millions of hungry families in developing nations like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Uganda, and Nepal. It takes about 20,000 grains of rice to provide an adult with two meals a day (in combination with vegetables, fruit, and protein). Playing the vocabulary and trivia games at FreeRice, which pose increasingly difficult questions, can easily generate several hundred grains of rice in a few minutes, and most users come away having learned new words and fun facts about history, science, and the arts. Funding for the donations is generated by banner ads of sponsor companies like Unilever and Yum! Read m
I love fresh-baked cookies, but whenever I try to make them from scratch, I ruin them. Not willing to give up on this dream of homemade cookies, I started looking around for pre-made cookie dough with as few artificial ingredients as possible. My search stopped when I discovered Immaculate Baking Co.?s ready-to-bake cookie dough ($3.50-$4; at grocery stores) made with all-natural and organic ingredients. Free of trans-fats, high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and artificial flavors and colors, the dough is available in chocolate chunk, triple chocolate, vanilla sugar, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and cranberry oatmeal white chocolate. It comes pre-portioned into 24 pieces, so you can break off and bake just what you want, and the cookies emerge from the oven fragrant and chewy. The ?just like homemade? approach carries over to the cookies? packaging, too: Every variety features colorful images from southern folk artists (Immaculate?s founder Scott Blackwell is an avid collector
No touching! A sure way to end the night early with a prompt tossing from some burly bouncer is to cross that line with a dancer. Just keep your hands to yourself and you'll be fine.
Commander, 432d Wing And 432d Air Expeditionary Wing, Creech Air Force Base. After two years as the first commander of the Air ForceÕs only dedicated unmanned aircraft wing, Col. Chris Chambliss hands over the reins today in a typical rotation of command. The wing at Creech Air Force Base flies the Predator and Reaper drones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Baccarat play declines, bad debts increase. Even high rollers arenÕt rolling so high in this recession.
The proposition asking which players will lead the NFL in categories such as rushing yards, passing yards and receiving yards during the regular season is presented as a straightforward sports bet, one of myriad football wagering opportunities available in Las Vegas this time of year.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada continues
Obama administration wisely decides to review document disclosure policies. We are glad that President Barack Obama, who campaigned on a vow of greater transparency in government, announced Wednesday that he has called on his administration to review the nationÕs secret documents to determine whether any can be disclosed without compromising national security or an individualÕs privacy.
State engineer will have authority to ensure well owners abide by their limits. People who live or run businesses in areas distant from municipal water lines generally buy permits from the state that allow them to tap into ground water.
Sincere effort to protect pristine national forests became too confusing to manage. Unprecedented protection for some of the most dense and undeveloped national forest land in the country was proposed by the White House in 1999, and, after hundreds of public hearings and millions of mostly positive written responses from the public, it was adopted in the final days of Bill ClintonÕs presidency.
She hopes district gets some of $1 billion for dropout prevention. PHOTOS OF TITUS
Foreclosed properties from hidden stockpiles could hit market within weeks. The flood of foreclosed homes in the Las Vegas real estate market has triggered the biggest house-buying spree since June 2006. And with that pool of deeply discounted homes shrinking, banks are expected in coming weeks to release their backlog of foreclosed homes by putting thousands more on the market.
Idea born in Vegas: Web site links donors, women wanting implants. What Susan wanted was simple: She wanted her husband to come home from Iraq and she wanted breast implants.
Brain center seeks Ôbest practicesÕ for serving families, caregivers. As the vision for the Ruvo Center for Brain Health evolved in the past decade, its most fantastic ambition became the curing of AlzheimerÕs and other degenerative brain disorders.
For criminal cases, law lets counties set up system similar to drug courts. Nevada, gambling capital of America, has also long been the countryÕs problem gambling capital.
North Carolina Attorney General stops health club as lawsuit looms. Facing a lawsuit, health club chain Peak Fitness agreed to stop selling prepaid gym memberships in North Carolina until the company can secure bonds for each health club. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said hard times make it more important than ever to follow the rules.
Attorney General wants database to protect against scam artists. When you're the state with more foreclosures than any other, chances are you?ll have more than your fair share of foreclosure "consultants." California Attorney General Jerry Brown, seeking to protect his citizens from shady rip-offs, has issued a directive forcing foreclosure consultants to register with his office and post a $100,000 bond by July 1, 2009.
Tesla Motors is recalling 345 of its 2008 roadsters manufactured between March 2008 and April 22, 2009.
Mazda Motor Corp. is recalling about 7,000 Mazda3 vehicles to fix a problem with the electronic stability control.
New research indicates condition may be hereditary, environmental. Anxiety disorder is ? in a sense ? contagious. In what is believed to be the first U.S. study designed to prevent anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that a family-based program reduced symptoms ? and the risk of these children developing an anxiety disorder.
New study highlights "appearance-based rejection sensitivity" among college students. People who feel pressure to look attractive are more fearful of being rejected because of their appearance than those around them, according to a new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Kent.
Slight rise in disposable income doesn't offset savings. Consumers made more money in April and held onto it instead of spending it. The U.S. Commerce Department reports income rose by 0.5 percent in April but spending fell 0.1 percent.
At least 61 miners were killed when fire tore through an abandoned gold shaft in one of South Africa's deadliest mine accidents, highlighting the lethal dangers facing illegal diggers.
At least 61 miners were killed when fire tore through an abandoned gold shaft in one of South Africa's deadliest mine accidents, highlighting the lethal dangers facing illegal diggers.
Sunderland were close to announcing Steve Bruce as their new manager on Tuesday following talks between the club and the former Manchester United defender on the terms of his appointment.
Florentino Perez, the inspiration behind the Real Madrid 'Galacticos', launched his second term as president on Monday by bringing in Chile's Manuel Pellegrini as the club's new coach and France legend Zinedine Zidane as a top advisor.
The world's top scientific academies on Monday called on UN talks to include ocean acidification, a dangerous byproduct of carbon pollution, in a global treaty to tackle climate change.
The bodies of 25 more illegal miners were found in a disused South African gold shaft on Tuesday, bringing number of those killed to at least 61, police said.
Gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore said Monday that his pioneering 1989 movie "Roger & Me" foretold the demise of auto giant General Motors, which collapsed he said, because of company ineptitude and disregard for its workers.
An Air France plane with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday after suffering multiple breakdowns in a fierce storm on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
El Salvador and Cuba formally reestablished diplomatic ties, broken since the Cuban revolution 50 years ago.
General Motors filed Monday for bankruptcy protection, seeking a quick restructuring to allow the former American industrial icon to emerge leaner and wipe out debts piled up over decades.
President Barack Obama's gamble in ushering iconic US automaker General Motors into bankruptcy restructuring comes with political risks, management uncertainty and potential conflicts of interest.
The world's top scientific academies on Monday called on UN talks to include ocean acidification, a dangerous byproduct of carbon pollution, in a global treaty to tackle climate change.
US President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States cannot impose its values on other countries, but argued that principles such as democracy and the rule of law were universal.
Saudi Arabia will seek assurances that Washington is ready to get tough with Israel in Middle East peace talks when US President Barack Obama makes his first visit to the Muslim kingdom on Wednesday.
Jameer Nelson's ahead-of-schedule recovery from shoulder surgery has the Orlando Magic at least contemplating his possible return for the National Basketball Association finals.
A Lebanese construction worker and his police escort have been shot and wounded in southern Nigeria by armed men in a foiled kidnap attempt, a senior security official said on Monday.
Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon.
US computer storage giant EMC Corp. offered 1.8 billion dollars on Monday for Data Domain in a bid to counter a rival offer for the data storage company from NetApp.
India has begun printing pictorial health warnings on cigarette and other tobacco products, including photos of diseased lungs and gums, as part of efforts to cut smoking, officials said Monday.
Plans for a sweeping reform of Spain's abortion law ran into trouble Monday as polls showed strong opposition to a proposal to allow girls as young as 16 to end a pregnancy without parental consent.
Having the television on constantly in a household with infants and toddlers is bad for brain and language development because it reduces the number of words the kids hear and say, a study showed Monday.
Alan Shearer has denied making unreasonable demands in his discussions with Newcastle owner Mike Ashley about taking charge of the Championship club on a permanent basis.
France play Nigeria at St Etienne on Tuesday in a friendly which coach Raymond Domenech hopes will settle the nerves of a recently inconsistent French national side.
Egyptian researchers are using DNA tests to discover the lineage of pharaoh king Tutankhamun, whose ancestry remains a mystery to Egyptologists, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday.
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki on Monday rebuffed concerns over his fragile coalition government saying the administration was not in "crisis".
The main armed militant group in southern Nigeria said that a British hostage it has planned to release on Monday after holding him for about nine months has refused being freed.
US lawmakers face a slew of key debates before the August recess, with President Barack Obama urging them to back his ambitious agenda with bills on healthcare reform and global warming, and the confirmation of a new Supreme Court judge.
The US Supreme Court on Monday extended the deadline for the government to appeal a lower court ruling ordering it to make public dozens of photos allegedly showing US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
