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Norwegian Seed Vault Guarantees Crops Won't Become Extinct

Burrowed into the side of a mountain, on a Norwegian island deep in the Arctic, is the Global Seed Vault, a small building where vital seed varieties are kept in a deep freeze year round.

A U.S. Marine meets with a chairman of the Fallujah city council. U.S. counterinsurgency training increasingly emphasizes a greater reliance on working with local officials in Iraq to help stabilize regions.

Shift in Tactics Seen as Vital to U.S. Victory in Iraq

It is a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war. Three years into the Iraq war, the U.S. military admits it has learned that the hard way. At Fort Irwin, soldiers are trained in new counterinsurgency tactics in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.

Mural at the New Directions facility in Los Angeles portrays a veteran's journey from the battlefield to the streets to rehabilitation.

New Directions for Homeless Veterans

On any given day, hundreds of thousands of U.S. military veterans find themselves sleeping on the streets. Farai Chideya visits a Southern California intervention program for homeless veterans.

Netflix has changed its corporate culture memo to warn employees that it will include content with viewpoints they may find harmful.

Netflix alters corporate culture memo to stress the importance of artistic freedom

In a substantive edit to Netflix's public-facing statement on work culture, the company states that employees might have to work on titles they "perceive to be harmful."

San Francisco restaurant makes pizzas using upcycled ingredients

The USDA says as much as 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste. Shuggie's Trash Pie makes pizzas using ugly and discarded ingredients like pig trotters, bruised fruit and wilted greens.

'Unbroken' Skips Over Louis Zamperini's Post-War Struggles

The movie is based on the 2010 nonfiction book by Laura Hillenbrand about a U.S. Olympic track star who survives a plane crash during World War II only to be taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.

Opinion: The endurance of parents

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walk in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, in April . Johnson may have been shown the door in Britain, but he remains a popular figure in Ukraine, where he is admired for his support for the country's effort to repel the Russian invasion.

Ukrainians have a special place in their hearts for Boris Johnson

While Britons might be happy to see their prime minister go, Ukrainians hold him in higher regard.

Mortality's Lighter Side: Sedaris' 'Engulfed'

In his new book of essays, neurotic, death-fearing humorist David Sedaris visits a morgue, has a catheter inserted (just to see what it's like) and buys a skeleton as a gift. Reviewer John Freeman calls Engulfed in Flames "always funny, occasionally bittersweet."

Daddy Charlie and the Curious Sign

Lucky Osborne grew up with his grandparents at the end of a country road in Mississippi. He remembers shooting alligators and ducking his grandmother's wooden spoon. And the story of an upside-down cafe sign that didn't need fixing.

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