Word: homely
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...Iranian government seeks to suppress demonstrations and restrict communication in the country, supporters of the opposition movement have increasingly depended on Internet blogs and messaging services such as Twitter to spread news. But the events of recent days have been brought even closer to home for some Harvard students who have family in Iran...
...first thing I bought when I got my book advance was a milk goat, because I had always wanted to have one. It's so wonderful to have the animals around, especially now when I'm having these [book] events and it can be kind of stressful. I come home and the goats don't think anything of it. I find it very soothing...
Interstate 980 cuts through a gritty section of West Oakland, California, bisecting a neighborhood blighted by abandoned homes and open drug-dealing. It's also home to a bustling farm that's been feeding writer Novella Carpenter and her neighbors for six years. An energetic advocate of sustainable, do-it-yourself living, Carpenter has raised (and slaughtered) chickens, ducks, geese, goats and even pigs in what was formerly a garbage-strewn lot next to her home. She recently published a memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, and spoke with TIME about her unlikely adventure in living...
...Spots of a Leopard, a book on masculinity in Africa that is soon to be released in English. "Rape is a signal of a society that is sick to the core," Zevenbergen says. He points to South Africa's long history of migrant labor, in which men left home to work in the mines, as having broken apart generations of families. This system set the stage, he says, "for an epidemic of young men who, in the absence of positive male role models, are now consumed by a sense of anger and entitlement...
...laws pitted against each other, Asha learns to cook in the microwave, to operate the washing machine and to stack the dishwasher, instead of learning the alphabet or math. Sitting in a park, keeping an eye on the children she minds, she talks about running in fields near her home town in West Bengal, playing hide and seek with her sister, and collecting raw mangoes and eating them with salt. And suddenly, from a children's nanny, Asha returns for a moment to what she is - a child...