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  • Bad weather this year has made the 2012 grape harvest the smallest in a half-century; this at a time when sales of Burgundy are booming in the U.S., Britain and across Asia. But wine makers seem to be taking the loss in stride.
  • In many cultures, milk and tea are natural pairs, while in others, not so much. But if you're drinking tea for health, you might want to hold the milk, because there is some evidence it diminishes the benefits.
  • When aspiring Broadway actress Catherine and World War II vet Harry first lock eyes on the Staten Island Ferry, everything changes — but their lives together won't be easy. Mark Helprin delivers an old-fashioned love story, and an ode to 1940s New York, in his novel In Sunlight and in Shadow.
  • The scientists who study humans and their cultures could help health care professionals treat people who are reasonably, desperately afraid, they argue.
  • Updated June 1, 2018, with bill signed — Missouri is in the vanguard when it comes to defining what meat is. It’s an essential, perhaps even existential...
  • Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.
  • Composer and author Tom Manoff has been the classical music critic for NPR's All Things Considered since 1985.
  • Naomi Delkamiller is The Midwest Newsroom's 2025-26 reporting fellow. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • The retired pediatric neurosurgeon and Tea Party favorite may be having his moment in the crowded Republican 2016 presidential primary.
  • When it comes to reefer madness, nobody can top a group of traditional hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin. About 70 percent of men smoke cannabis. The drug could be doing more than getting them high.
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