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Congress Again Bans Crush Videos

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Congress has heeded this advice, and voted to ban so-called crush videos, which depict animal cruelty, often with women killing small animals to satisfy some strange urge of the viewer. More specifically, the ban applies to the selling or distribution of crush videos, not to their production. It’s heading to President Barack Obama for his signature…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Congress Again Bans Crush Videos

Turning the Site of a War-Time Massacre in Sarajevo into a Place of Peace, Love, and Local Produce

The existing Markale Produce Market. Photo: me5otron / Creative Commons . The site of one of the worst civilian massacres during the Bosnian War could become a “healing ground” for the city of Sarajevo and its people, through a proposal by a Danish architecture student who suggests turning the central open-air marketplace into a combined cooperative market and urban farm …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turning the Site of a War-Time Massacre in Sarajevo into a Place of Peace, Love, and Local Produce