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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Music From The Show

Massive Attack, “Paradise Circus”
Julliard String Quartet, “Ravel: String Quartet”
Steve Earle, “Halo Round the Moon”
Horace Silver, “Song for My Father”
The Lickets, “A Crowd of Pimps in the Rain”
Radiohead, “Weird Fishes”
Kanye West, “American Boy”
Harold Adamson and Eliot Daniel, “I Love Lucy” performed by Marco Marinangeli

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Thursday, May 23, 2013
First lady Michelle Obama, second from right, hands out diplomas at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

A professor from Howard University has some advice on what African American high school graduates need to hear when they receive diplomas over the next few weeks.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Foam peanuts. (HidingInABunker/Flickr)

What if you could replace styrofoam with something that biodegrades and doesn’t contain petroleum? That’s what one start-up is trying to do — with mushrooms.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
1989 photo of singer, musician and entertainer, "Prince." (AP)

Prince is a brilliant musician, a mesmerizing performer and — according to cultural commentator Touré — a Generation X icon. Touré says Prince played a wise older brother to the latchkey kids of Gen X.

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