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• Washington's Union Station celebrates 100 years
Like passenger rail itself, the Beaux Arts building was in decline, with chunks of the ceiling falling off and mushrooms growing on the floor. Today, the 100-year-old building is a thriving transportation hub, a shopping mall and one of Washington's ...
• Fake fur has really gone to the dogs
Eight vegetables reportedly contribute to the anti-oxidant effects against aging — tomatoes, arugula, garlic, zucchini, basil, mushrooms, carrots and spinach. The formula was devised by Eugenio Luigi Iorio, a nutritionist and biochemist at the ...
• American Story: Millionaire monks
They considered everything from cultivating mushrooms to constructing a world-class golf course, but monks are supposed to live lives separate from the stress of the outside world. Father Bernard does pray half the day, but he runs a worldwide ...
• More foods labeled with the country of origin
The rubber band around asparagus; the plastic wrap on ground beef; the little sticker that says “Gala” on an apple. If a food isn’t normally sold in any packaging — such as a bin of fresh green beans or mushrooms — then the store must post ...
• Autumn escapes in Europe
In towns across Tuscany, locals thronged to celebrate the arrival of the season’s truffles, chestnuts, wild mushrooms, wines and olive oils. The experience was typically vibrant, colorful—and, as Fraioli puts it, “intensely local.” “A lot of ...