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This image provided by Logee's Plants for Home & Garden shows a coffee (Coffea arabica) houseplant growing in a container. (Logee's Plants for Home & Garden / logees.com via AP)

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How to grow your cup of coffee, indoors
By JESSICA DAMIANO - Associated Press
Tue,10/17/23-7:40AM , 90 Reads
About 20 years ago, while on vacation in Nashville, Tennessee, I saw my first coffee plant growing inside a greenhouse. I was fascinated to learn that its red “cherries” grew in bunches and that each cherry contained two seeds, which are what we call coffee beans.
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Preschool students practice math using manipulatives at a public school in Boston in 2016. Experts say all students, not only those with dyscalculia, could benefit from using manipulatives to help visualize problems and graph paper to assist in lining up numbers. (Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report via AP)

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Math disabilities hold many students back. Schools often don't screen for them
By JACKIE MADER OF THE HECHINGER REPORT
Mon,10/16/23-11:14PM , 100 Reads
Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson’s daughter relied on her fingers to count, had difficulty reading clocks and burst into tears when asked at home to practice math flashcards.
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In this April 17, 2019, file photo, online customer reviews for a product are displayed on a computer in New York. Some of the most used platforms for travel and online shopping said Tuesday, Oct. 17. 2023 they’re going to team up to battle fake reviews. Amazon, reviews site Glassdoor and Trustpilot as well as travel companies Expedia Group, Booking.com and Tripadvisor announced they're launching a group called the “Coalition for Trusted Reviews." (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

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Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them
Mon,10/16/23-3:06PM , 98 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the most used platforms for travel and online shopping said Tuesday they’re going to team up to battle fake reviews.
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A Pepper X pepper is shown on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C. The pepper variety is now the hottest pepper in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Pepper X marks the spot as South Carolina pepper expert scorches his own Guinness Book heat record
Mon,10/16/23-1:00PM , 87 Reads
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his own world record with a pepper that’s three times hotter.
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