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Billions Of Years Go By, All In The Same 'Room'

2:52pm December 11, 2014

by NPR Staff

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Richard McGuire about his arresting graphic novel, Here. It's an austere, profound journey backward and forward in time through the life of a single room.

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Just Say No, N-O

2:52pm December 11, 2014

by Will Shortz

Every answer today is a familiar two-word phrase or name with the initial letters N and O.

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No need to wonder what's in this bologna; The Herbivorous Butcher lists every ingredient on its website: Tofu, vital wheat gluten, tomato juice, tapioca flour, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, vegan beef bouillon, canola oil, soy sauce, agar agar, red bee

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Siblings Build A Butcher Shop For 'Meat'-Loving Vegans

2:52pm December 11, 2014

by NPR Staff

Kale and Aubry Walch plan to open the country's first vegan butcher shop. Their goal: to free vegans from enduring yet another tofurkey holiday.

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Nazila Fathi reported from her native Iran for The New York Times. Fearing arrest, she fled in 2009 with her family and now lives in suburban Washington, D.C. Her new book, The Lonely War, describes the challenges of reporting from the country.

The Risks, Rewards And Mysteries Of Reporting From Iran

1:53pm December 11, 2014

by Greg Myre

Nazila Fathi covered Iran for The New York Times until she feared her arrest was imminent. She then fled her homeland. Her new book, The Lonely War, tells of the challenges of reporting on Iran.

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Actor Samuel Lange Zambrano plays Junior, a boy who becomes obsessed with relaxing his hair.

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'Pelo Malo' Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations

1:23pm December 11, 2014

by Jasmine Garsd

A new Venezuelan film explores racism and homophobia through the experiences of 9-year-old Junior, who drives his mother up a wall in a quest to straighten his thick, curly "pelo malo," or "bad hair."

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Haydee Thompson Shares Atlantic Photographs in New Exhibit "Wanderlust"

9:09am December 11, 2014

by Eddie Garcia

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Hector Tobar, a former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, spent three years and hundreds of hours interviewing all 33 miners for Deep Down Dark.

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The Incredible Story Of Chilean Miners Rescued From The 'Deep Down Dark'

4:50pm December 10, 2014

by Maureen Corrigan

Hector Tobar had exclusive access to the 33 miners to report his new book detailing the claustrophobic horror they faced when they were trapped for 69 days in 2010. The result is a doozy.

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Jacqueline Woodson has published 30 books, and won three Newbery honors and a Coretta Scott King Book Award for her young adult book Miracle's Boys.

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Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers

3:01pm December 10, 2014

Woodson won the National Book Award for young people's literature for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. She says that growing up in South Carolina, she knew that the safest place was with her family.

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German-American game developer Ralph Baer shows the prototype of the first games console which was invented by him during a press conference on the Games Convention Online in Leipzig, Germany in 2009. Baer died on Saturday. He was 92.

Inventor Ralph Baer, The 'Father Of Video Games,' Dies At 92

12:32pm December 10, 2014

by Steve Mullis

Video games have become a ubiquitous, billion-dollar industry, but all of the Playstations, Xboxes and Wiis can be traced back to the work of Robert Baer and his "Brown Box." He died Saturday.

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WWII By The Books: The Pocket-Size Editions That Kept Soldiers Reading

11:11am December 10, 2014

by NPR Staff

In the 1940s, U.S. publishers printed paperbacks — everything from romances to Westerns — that were designed for battle. Molly Guptill Manning explores their history in When Books Went to War.

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