Flying This Holiday? Here Are A Few Tips To Survive Airline Food Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Flying This Holiday? Here Are A Few Tips To Survive Airline Food It's not just lack of quality or freshness that can put a damper on your in-flight meal: Our senses are scrambled at high altitudes. Those sweet and salty sensors might be off as much as 30 percent while in flight. Read this story For Two Young Doctors, Working On Christmas Was A Privilege By the end of December, interns are nearing the midpoint of their first year of intense, hands-on work with patients. That's long enough for the young doctors to feel committed to their chosen career but not nearly far enough along to see the finish line. Read this story Camels Trek In The Texas Desert, Just Like Old Times The Texas Camel Corps leads trips through the rugged Big Bend region of West Texas. Indigenous people lived in the area some 9,000 years ago, and for a while, camels called it home, too. In the 1800s, U.S. soldiers brought the animals in to traverse the distance between water supplies for the first American settlers. Read this story Grasslands Get Squeezed As Another 1.6 Million Acres Go Into Crops Over the past decade, the government has been paying farmers to keep their land covered with native grasses instead of crops. But as grain prices have risen, the conservation reserve has shrunk by more than 25 percent. This decline in native grasslands means more soil erosion and less habitat for wildlife. Read this story Reporter's Notebook: 'What Part Of Sacred Don't You Understand?' The controversy over the recent Paris auctions of Hopi objects boils down to competing definitions of what is sacred. The same tension exists elsewhere in Indian Country where economic development projects are proposed for land Native Americans consider to be holy. Read this story more news stories

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