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There is one constant in Florida politics: Its elections will be close. Slightly more than 15 million people lived in the state in 2000, when Florida’s votes decided the presidential election. Close to 22 million people will live in the state by November, and they’ve come from everywhere — retirees from the Midwest, tax exiles from the Northeast, Puerto Ricans settling down in Orlando. Read More...
By Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
Hulton ArchiveTwo factories located on the Ganges manufactured opiumIn Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed.
"She looked at the seed as if she has never seen one before, and suddenly she knew that it was not the planet above that governed her life; it was this miniscule orb - at once beautiful and all - devouring, merciful and destructive, sustaining and vengeful. Read More...
Q: I want to build a retaining wall that’s going to look great for years. At my last house, a short retaining wall I had around a patio started to lean out toward the lawn. The wall was but 10 inches tall, for goodness sake, with no soil pressure against it. Why do you think that wall failed, and what can I do to build retaining walls even three feet tall that will not tip over? Read More...
