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2013 Oscar-inspired dishes
The Academy Awards are right around the corner! What better way to cheer on the Best Picture nominees than by cooking a dish inspired by your favorite film?
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Top 10 senators seeking earmarks
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day 08/10
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In Pictures: Sticky mess: The Gulf oil spill's impact on nature
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Opinion: Iran nuclear talks: Look to cooperation of US-Iran scientists
As talks about Iran’s nuclear program began today in Kazakhstan, it's worth noting the success of ongoing, respectful collaboration between American and Iranian scientists and public-health experts. Such exchanges can cut through the deepest political and media rhetoric.
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2013 Oscar-inspired dishes
The Academy Awards are right around the corner! What better way to cheer on the Best Picture nominees than by cooking a dish inspired by your favorite film?
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Could tropical storm Isaac actually help break US drought?
Tropical storm Isaac is bearing down on the Gulf Coast, but once it gets inland, it is expected to bring much needed rain to drought-hit farmlands.
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Rising sea levels: Is global warming making the US East Coast a 'hot spot?' (+video)
The pace of sea-level rise along much of the East Coast is accelerating three to four times faster than the worldwide average, a US Geological Survey study says. Global warming is the chief suspect.
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The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Preston Lauterbach.
A groundbreaking history of the black juke joints that birthed rock 'n' roll.
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Classic review: Bob Dylan in America
Sean Wilentz's study of enigmatic music icon Bob Dylan is at once a time-hopping biography; a catalog of Dylan’s myriad, eclectic influences; and a primer on American music.
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Memphis largely spared as Mississippi River floodwaters near historic high
Gawkers gathered beside the Mississippi River to see floodwaters near 48 feet. Most of the flood damage was in low-lying areas outside downtown Memphis.
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Mississippi River nears crest in Memphis, but concern shifts south
Mississippi River floodwaters might pose more of a threat to the Delta region south of Memphis than they do to Memphis itself. In the Delta, the flood brings back memories of 1927.
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Memphis and Baton Rouge brace for record-breaking Mississippi flood
Residents of the Mississippi River floodplain are sandbagging or evacuating as the flood crest pushes south. It will pass Memphis on Tuesday and hit southern Louisiana on May 23.
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Watery week ahead as Mississippi floodwaters hit Memphis, move downriver
Mississippi River at record level in Memphis, Tenn., where some areas are already underwater. It's expected to get higher, with floodwaters to linger for days. Evacuations are under way.
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Mississippi floodwaters surge in Memphis, but crest is still days away
Evacuations and closed highways are a taste of what is in store for Memphis, Tenn., as the Mississippi rises. Farther south, Jackson, Miss., residents are already being asked to evacuate.
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Cathead buttermilk biscuits
Cathead biscuits are a feature of the Mississippi Delta. The name comes from the size of these biscuits – the size of a cat’s head.
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Pinetop Perkins was 'one of the last great Mississippi Bluesmen'
Pinetop Perkins, an old school bluesman with the gravelly voice, for years had played the rickety bars among the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, and toured far beyond them with rock pioneer Ike Turner in the 1950s.
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In Mississippi, snow-plowing tractors no match for latest winter storm
Snow and cold records are falling across the South as another winter storm blankets parts of Mississippi with half a foot of snow. One mayor admits he might have to buy a plow.
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Top 10 senators seeking earmarks
Senate leaders decided to scrap a 1,900-page omnibus spending bill that contained $8 billion in home state spending projects – otherwise known as earmarks, pet projects, or "pork." Government spending and the deficit became an issue in the midterm election, and lawmakers are keenly aware of voter anger about large, catch-all bills that are quickly passed. The following senators have been ranked by the monetary value of earmarks they backed, whether alone or with others, in the now-scuttled omnibus spending bill. The earmark process became more transparent with the 2006 Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which required creation of a database of all government spending. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense used the database to compile this ranking. Sen. Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma, who co-sponsored the legislation, also has a list of the disclosed earmarks in the omnibus bill on his website. *This is the amount requested both alone and with other members of Congress.
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Bob Dylan in America
Bob Dylan was not so much a sponge as an alchemist, taking common materials and creating new art.
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Beyond racism: lessons from the South on racial discrimination and prejudice
Seven lessons from the deep South on racism, racial discrimination, and prejudice.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day 08/10
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What can save Gulf's fragile coastal wetlands? Salt water, perhaps.
Saltwater marshes on the Gulf Coast are far more resilient than freshwater marshes, new research finds. The results could reframe how scientists work to stop the chronic erosion of coastal wetlands in the Gulf.
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Scientists team up to attack Louisiana's Gulf oil spill berm plan
Louisiana is moving ahead with its plan to build 40 miles of berms to protect its coastline from the Gulf oil spill. The problem is, it won't work and might make things worse, scientists say.
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Hurricane Alex wreaking havoc on BP Gulf oil spill
Hurricane Alex has pushed oil from the BP Gulf oil spill spill onto Gulf coast beaches, with some tar balls as large as apples.
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Hurricane Alex pushes oil onto Gulf coast beaches
Hurricane Alex has made Gulf coast beaches particularly vulnerable. "With this weather, we lost all the progress we made," says scientist.
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Hurricane season and Gulf oil pipelines. Trouble ahead?
Hurricane season is upon us and that could mean trouble for the 31,000 miles of Gulf oil pipelines that snake across the floor of the Gulf.
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Gulf oil spill: Louisiana's berm plan bold but full of uncertainty
The plan to build 90 miles of sand berms to protect Louisiana wetlands from the Gulf oil spill is now getting under way. But it could take nine months and have unintended consequences.
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Louisianans to Obama on BP oil spill: Show us we matter
As President Obama visits Louisiana Friday for the third time for an on-scene update of the BP oil spill, some residents report a nagging feeling that the US response would have been more vigorous if the accident had happened elsewhere.
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