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The Salt
10:12 am
Fri August 10, 2012

Smoked Chocolate, For National S'More Day And More

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Chocolate chips, fresh out of the smoker at Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery in Seattle.
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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 10:57 am

It's National S'more Day, so you've got a good reason to indulge in the gooey goodness.

But what if you're nowhere near a campfire? How can you replicate the taste of a chocolate-marshmallow-graham cracker s'more fired up and fashioned en plein air?

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Author Interviews
4:45 am
Fri August 10, 2012

Dr. Siri Books Began With A Surprise Hospital Stay

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Originally published on Fri August 10, 2012 6:28 am

Author Colin Cotterill believes in fate. Though he didn't know it at the time, fate seemed to determine early on that he would write the Dr. Siri books, a series of mysteries that follows a 70-something Laotian country coroner. (This piece initially aired August 15, 2008 on Morning Edition).

Poetry Games
3:22 am
Fri August 10, 2012

'Swim Your Own Race' Wins NPR's Poetry Games

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South African swimmer Natalie du Toit lost her leg after a scooter accident at age 17. Poet Mbali Vilakazi says du Toit "is everything the Olympics represent to me — the triumph of the human spirit."
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Originally published on Fri August 10, 2012 1:24 pm

As athletes have sprinted and soared their way to bronze, silver and gold in London, Morning Edition has celebrated the Olympics with the Poetry Games: We invited poets from around the globe to compose original works about athletes and athletics and asked you to be the judges.

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Movies
5:17 pm
Thu August 9, 2012

In Times Of Drought, Movies Show Tenacity Of Life

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Henry Hall prays to the heavens in 1934's Our Daily Bread. King Vidor's film about a farmers collective living through a drought was made during one of the country's most catastrophic dry spells.
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In Rango, the town of Dirt goes through a drought caused by greedy corporations and politicians, not by nature.
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Originally published on Fri August 10, 2012 11:02 am

The nationwide drought that has withered crops in more than 30 states shows no sign of letting up. But as Katharine Hepburn established in her film, The Rainmaker, that doesn't mean hope has to dry up.

"I dreamed we had a rain, a great big rain," she tells her brothers, only to be told that "a drought's a drought, and a dream's a dream."

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Media
5:17 pm
Thu August 9, 2012

Fox Pioneers Formula For Latino News

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Francisco Cortes started at Fox as an apprentice, then rose through the ranks to become Fox News Latino's first director.
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According to one analytics site, Fox News Latino drew a healthy 3.3 million unique visitors in June of this year, but it's no longer the only game in town.
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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 9:48 am

This is the first in a three-part series about major American networks trying to appeal to a broader Latino audience.

In a glass-walled conference room at Fox News in New York, reporter Bryan Llenas and two of his colleagues discuss the nature and success of their news site, Fox News Latino, largely aimed at English-speaking Hispanics.

Maybe a dozen feet away, two pundits can be seen heatedly arguing in a Fox News TV studio.

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