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Arkansas Aims To Make Edamame As American As Apple Pie
Edamame beans are a popular Asian appetizer, and they're beginning to get a foothold in the U.S. market. An Arkansas company is now trying to cash in on this edamame boom.
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Three Ways Brush Factories Are Surviving In America
The cheapest place to make brushes these days is China. But there are still people pressing bristles into brushes in a factory in the Bronx, and in small plants across the country.
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Book News: Paula Deen's Cookbook Sales Still Sizzle
Also: Dan Savage on stealing books; new works from Amy Tan; Jamie Oliver reads an entire book for the first time.
Back On The Ground, Nik Wallenda Dreams Up His Next Walk
Wallenda put his circus family back on the map with his high-wire trip across Niagara Falls in 2012. Last week, it was a walk across a 1,500-foot gorge near the Grand Canyon. Of course he gets butterflies, he says, but there's no fear.
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Justice Kennedy Denies Request To Halt Same-Sex Marriages
Proponents of California's Proposition 8 had asked that marriages be suspended while they decide whether to ask the court to reconsider its ruling about that initiative. Meanwhile, gay pride celebrations were happening in cities across the U.S.
Back For More: Sorkin's 'Newsroom' Is A Serious Standout
Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom,starring Jeff Daniels as cable news anchorman Will McAvoy, returns July 14 for its second season. TV critic David Bianculli says some critics find the show preachy, but he likes that it tackles serious and complicated subjects.
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George Duke, Legendary Jazz Keyboardist, Dies
Duke's career spanned five decades and he always straddled the line between disparate genres, collaborating with artists such as Miles Davis, Barry Manilow and Frank Zappa.
Dick Kazmaier, 'A Honey Of A Guy'
Commentator Frank Deford remembers the last Ivy League football player to win the Heisman Trophy. Kazmaier, 82, died on Thursday.
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Why Were The Baboons So Sad? Many Theories, No Answers
At a zoo in the Netherlands, 112 baboons suddenly started acting oddly. They turned their backs to visitors. They moped around. They didn't want to eat. It was a week before they got back to normal. Were they upset by a storm or an earthquake that people didn't feel? Maybe aliens? It's a mystery.
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Kansas City Museum, Oz Memorabilia, KC Creative Couples
Union Station Issues Statement On Museum Agreement With CityIt came as a shock to a lot of people when Kansas City Museum director Christopher Leitch was…
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