Business

Self-Described Optimist Taylor Swift On The Future Of Music

9:51am July 08, 2014

In an op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal, the singer-songwriter writes that "the value of an album is ... based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work."

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'A Hard Day's Night' Premiered In London 50 Years Ago

4:06am July 08, 2014

The black-and-white film was a cheeky snapshot of the biggest band in history: The Beatles.

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Bottles of mahia in the Nahmias et Fils distillery.

Couple Revives Lost Moroccan Fig Liquor, One Bottle At A Time

7:56pm July 07, 2014

by Alex Schmidt

Jews have made mahia, a spirit made with fermented figs, in Morocco for centuries, but the tradition has all but died out. A New York couple aims to reintroduce the drink that once connected a nation.

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Politics & Government

CBS Lost Appetite For Government Watchdog Stories, Attkisson Says

1:14pm July 07, 2014

by David Folkenflik

When the investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson left CBS this year, she did not do so quietly. She contends the network refused to run stories that might damage President Obama.

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Wash. Retailers To Sell Recreational Marijuana On Tuesday

1:14pm July 07, 2014

Washington state is to roll out retail pot sales this week after voters approved a referendum on recreational marijuana in 2012. But a backlog of growers and processors are awaiting licenses.

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By hijacking a user's computer, "bad" bots make it look as if she visits a website often, thus making the site more valuable to advertisers.

In A Battle For Web Traffic, Bad Bots Are Going After Grandma

11:05am July 07, 2014

by Laura Sydell

"Bad" Web bots are going after everyone they can, but why? Because by hijacking Grandma's computer, they make it look as if she visits a site often, thus making the site more valuable to advertisers.

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People line up at the FamilySource Center in Los Angeles, an organization in one of President Obama's five designated "Promise Zones" that aims to help fight poverty in the area.

Programs Target Poverty In Obama's 5 'Promise Zones'

11:02am July 07, 2014

by NPR Staff

The idea is to basically carpet-bomb specific urban neighborhoods and rural areas with programs like after-school classes, GED courses and job training, with the goal of turning those areas around.

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It's Going To Cost More To Have A Burger This July 4

7:52am July 04, 2014

"For most people, this is going to be the most expensive hamburger they've eaten in their life," says economic analyst Joe Deaux of the street.com. Prices are soaring because of the on-going drought.

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2010 World Cup Helped South Africa Attract Latin American Tourists

7:52am July 04, 2014

by Anders Kelto

Brazil's World Cup soccer stadiums and hotels are packed. But events like that don't pay for themselves. South Africa hosted the last World Cup and the country wasn't left entirely empty handed.

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Paul Greenberg is also the author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.

Books
Arts

'The Great Fish Swap': How America Is Downgrading Its Seafood Supply

12:09pm July 03, 2014

One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes.

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