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Food waste:
We are the problem and the solution
Here in Sri Lanka, we waste a shameful amount of
food. The writer has seen estimates that Sri Lankans waste about 30
percent of the food that we produce. While some of that waste
happens during processing, in restaurants, and even on the farm, the
part that we as individuals can control is how much food we
personally waste.
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Vignettes
Speak like a native speaker
Most of us love English because it is a
magnificent communication tool. Although its vocabulary is bursting
at its seams with more than half-a-million words, people have been
using it in almost every part of the world. Speakers of other
languages use English words and phrases quite freely. It shows that
English has successfully infiltrated the vocabularies of other
languages.
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Thorns on the Side
A new way of seeing our world
Today’s digital cameras are very advanced. Some
of them will even capture detail that the human eye cannot perceive.
Some can work in parts of the colour/light spectrum that we cannot
fathom. On the other hand, the human eye or for that matter, the
eyes of most other animals are very complex structures that have
been engineered over millions of years by Nature.
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