Word: charly
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...food shortages and the energy crisis, Frye is transforming the waste into a charcoal-like substance called biochar that in the long run could be far better for the world than chicken nuggets. "It might look like this is just a poultry farm," says Frye. "But it's a char farm...
...Often held at the end of Gaypril, Drag Night is one of the BGLTSA’s major events, according to Turner. Although it’s not a political event, Drag Night nevertheless showcases a unique facet of queer culture, one that according to Chan, the social char of BGLTSA, “gets people thinking about gender, and that there are alternative ways about thinking about gender out there…it’s not the simple male/female that we see everyday.” Although it’s not yet clear if Drag Night will...
...We’re getting things we need...we’re getting upgraded,” he adds, mentioning a new char broiler which will enable him to burn diamond shaped grill marks onto the meat...
...Afghans have endured in the last 25 years of scorching battle and exile. "I sing what I feel," he says with a child's simplicity. His father was a famous musician who died when Mirwais was only 5 years old. The family had the misfortune of living in the Char-Deh neighborhood of Kabul on the front line between two warring commanders; as mortars and rockets exploded around them, Mirwais and his brothers risked their lives every day just to draw water from a communal well...
...against them too. They referred to the local Inuit as skraelings (loosely, wretches) while ignoring the fact that those wretches nimbly harvested calorie-rich seals and whales using their technologically sophisticated kayaks. And amazingly, although the fjords and lakes of Greenland are crammed with scrumptious haddock, cod, trout and char, it never occurred to the Norse to go fishing, even as they starved and froze to death. They apparently considered fish taboo and beneath their dignity...