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Dogs with Library Cards: Kids Love Reading to Animals

Mar 31, 2015 11:55AM ● By SANDRA MURPHY

The goal of Reading Education Assistance Dogs (READ), launched in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1999 as part of Intermountain Therapy Animals, is to improve children’s literacy skills with the mentoring help of certified therapy teams.

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Strong Winds Strong Roots: What Trees Teach Us About Life

Mar 31, 2015 11:54AM ● By DENNIS MERRITT JONES

Agreat experiment in the desert called the biodome created a living environment for human, plant and animal life.

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Healing Journeys: Paul Stutzman Finds Universal Truths on His Treks

Mar 31, 2015 11:53AM ● By RANDY KAMBIC

Paul Stutzman was a successful executive with a family restaurant chain and a happy father and husband married for more than 30 years when his wife, Mary, passed away from breast cancer in 2006.

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Home-Grown Organic Made Easy: 10 Time-Saving Tips for a Healthy Garden

Mar 31, 2015 11:53AM ● By BARBARA PLEASANT

Organic gardening experts share strategies for growing a great garden and having a life, too.

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The Food Artisans Next Door: Homemade Delicacies, Direct from Our Neighbors

Mar 31, 2015 11:52AM ● By LISA KIVIRIST AND JOHN IVANKO

The locavore movement of eating locally produced foods continues to expand, thanks to 42 states passing cottage food laws that permit community members to make certain foods at home to sell to neighbors.

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Mastering the Force: The Martial Arts Hold Deep Inner Lessons

Mar 31, 2015 11:51AM ● By ERIC STEVENS

Few words are as oddly coupled as martial and arts.

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Earth in Peril: Children Confront Climate Change

Mar 31, 2015 11:50AM ● By AVERY MACK

This month, Home Box Office (HBO), in collaboration with New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, will air the new documentary, Saving My Tomorrow.

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Spring Greening: Easy Ways to Detox a House

Mar 31, 2015 11:48AM ● By LANE VAIL

For most individuals, odorous chemicals are simply unpleasant.

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Nature’s Wisdom: Its Lessons Inspire, Heal and Sustain Us

Mar 31, 2015 11:46AM ● By CHRISTINE MACDONALD

While the idea that we humans stand apart from—or even above—nature is a prevailing theme in much of modern civilization, naturalists and other clever souls throughout the ages have observed that the opposite is true:

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