1 A reasonable estimate for house building lumber costs is somewhere around $15 to $30 per square foot. 2  For an average sized home, this works out to approximately $35 to $55,000 (this price also includes the price of nails, etc.).
Studies by Scottish researchers have found higher levels of arsenic in rice grown in the U.S. than in basmati or jasmine rice from Thailand or India. The highest levels of arsenic in U.S.-grown rice came from Southern states.
Rice grows wild in south-east Asia and this is where rice originated from. Through trading, rice spread throughout Asia and to Africa. Rice also spread into Europe via the armies of Alexander the Great. Due to colonization and the slave trade rice was introduced into the United States. Today the largest exporters of rice are Thailand, Vietnam and the United States.