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| Guide To News: Cultivated Medicine: Finding Health Benefits in a Fiery Food (US News & World Report) Six millennia ago, farmers living in modern-day Mexico made a wise health move: They domesticated the chili pepper. Last week, researchers at the Smithsonian Institution announced the discovery of a 1,000-year-old (and very dried out) stash of more than 100 cultivated chili peppers, indicating that the Zapotec people who once occupied Mexico's Mitla River Valley ate a cuisine very similar to the ... Sinking Feeling: Travel agency closes; cruise payments lost (Palatka Daily News) Imagine booking the cruise of a lifetime only to find out the travel agency you used to book that cruise went out of business and left you high and dry. |
