One of these plants is the baobab tree, which looks like an up­side-down plant with its roots in the air. The baobab made the trip from Africa to the West In­dies dur­ing the height of the slave trade ...

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At 9:00 a.m. last December 14, a man in Orange County, California, discovered he’d been robbed. Someone had swiped his Volkswagen Golf, his MacBook Air and some headphones. The police arrived ...