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 | Gordon Hempton has one of the most seemingly ridiculous and redundant jobs in America—and also one of the most essential. Hempton is an "acoustic ecologist," who traveled across the entire country making recordings of silence. (Do I hear crickets... |
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 | Datu Kelly S. Worden is the instructor in this combination of Filipino and Indonesian martial arts techniques. This form of knife fighting self-defense includes insights into blade handling, footwork, mobility, and angles of attack. |
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 | Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined... |
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