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How Dairy Farmers Are Cashing-In On California's Push For Cleaner Fuel

Dairy farms that capture methane from their cows' manure can earn valuable pollution-cutting credits through California 's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.Rich Pedroncelli/AP

California is trying to cut greenhouse emissions from the state's cars and trucks, and in a controversial twist, its efforts are putting cash in the pockets of dairy farms across the country.  It is the result of an odd but lucrative trade: pollution cuts on farms, in order to satisfy limits on emissions from California 's roadways.

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The Vietnam Wall

The quality of the soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen has never been in question. It is the quality of the highest levels of leadership that is in doubt.

To those who might have known some of the people whose names appear on the Wall. A little history most people will never know. Here are some Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

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2021 Events

As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession, and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development in history, vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna were authorized for emergency use by December 2020, and distribution of the shots increased by the start of 2021. By year's end, more than 200 million Americans would be fully vaccinated, as the use of the vaccines was expanded to cover first adolescents and later children aged five and over.

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The Silk Road : 8 Goods Traded Along the Ancient Network

by DAVE ROOS

The vibrant network opened up exchanges between far-flung cultures throughout central Eurasia. The Silk Road wasn't a single route, but rather a vibrant trade network that crisscrossed central Eurasia for centuries, bringing far-flung cultures into contact. Traveling by camel and horseback, merchants, nomads, missionaries, warriors, and diplomats not only exchanged exotic goods, but transferred knowledge, technology, medicine and religious beliefs that reshaped ancient civilizations.

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In 1964 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , when this woman got pregnant her senior year in high school, the principal told her she would not be allowed to graduate. She begged the school to change its mind. It did, but there were conditions. She was not allowed to talk to the other students. She was barred from eating in the cafeteria. She could not come to school more than five minutes in advance of the opening bell, and she had to leave school within five minutes of the closing bell. And she was not allowed to get her diploma onstage with the rest of the students. She did marry the father of her child, but it lasted only a year. He was not a good husband and not a good father. After the divorce, he never had any contact whatsoever with his ex-wife and their son. A couple of years later, she married a Cuban emigrant, a good and decent man. He adopted her son and gave him his name.

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Phenomenal ... Israeli Medicine

The pride of Israel is that its technologies will be able to be used by all humanity:

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