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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A multinational archaeology team is providing new insights into successful and extensive water management and agricultural production in and around the ancient city of Petra, which is located in modern Jordan. Professor Susan Alcock of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) leads the dig. Christian Cloke, doctoral student in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, used a variety of tools and...

Model Citizen Petra Nemcova makes her home in New York while helping others all over the world. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 02, 2013 In the new issue of Haute Living New York, we talk with supermodel Petra Nemcova, who, after narrowly escaping death during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, founded the Happy Hearts Fund, a non-profit foundation dedicated to rebuilding schools and communities following natural disasters. “In situations like that you find inner strength that you never...