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  • A germ expert tells the British Press Association that if you drop food and pick it up quickly, bacteria on the floor are not likely to have attached. It's probably OK to eat.
  • When the expectant mom arrived at the hospital in Krakow, physicians were prepared to deliver quintuplets. Surprise! There was a sixth baby that no one was expecting.
  • Women play an outsized role in the underground firearms marketplace. Often they handle illegal guns that are not for for their own use, but for men close to them. One Boston program is campaigning against gun violence, drawing connections between "crime guns" and domestic violence.
  • Congress is negotiating a farm bill extension as a mass deportation of undocumented workers looms, threatening agriculture. Plus, Thanksgiving meal prices drop 5% this year.
  • Barry Blitt's new book features some of the cartoonist's most memorable and merciless work, including his 2008 drawing of Barack and Michelle Obama fist-bumping in the Oval Office.
  • The fifth and final in our series of panel discussions on race elations in the United States. This session, moderated by host Liane Hansen, ncludes discussion with eight students who attend Washington, D.C.-area niversities. Today's participants are Kevin Jenkins, University of the District f Columbia; Megan Varnet, George Washington University; Jennifer Johnson, niversity of Maryland; Caleb Pitters, Brian Rath and Alexandra Camp of eorgetown University; and Tim Furlong and Terri Tolliver of The American niversity. We'll hear excerpts from previous discussions from bell hooks, a ultural critic and Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League.
  • President Biden is on his first trip to Asia since taking office. In South Korea and Japan, he'll try to coordinate more closely with them on priorities including strategic competition with China.
  • Chris Stein's photos in Me, Blondie and the Advent of Punk Rock document a city that is barely recognizable today.
  • The four major advice-givers can't agree on when to start or how long to continue. That leaves women understandably confused. And that doesn't make it easy to decide.
  • In times of tragedy, our deepest insecurities can take over. In Celeste Ng's new novel, set in the Midwest in the late 1970s, the fear that bubbles up is related to race and identity.
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