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The Salt
11:47 am
Wed July 18, 2012

Hot Or Not? Potato Board Tries To Un-Dud The Spud

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Tiny spuds decked out with cheese fondue sauce and a sprinkling of broccoli shavings at a dinner sponsored by the U.S. Potato Board.
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Waiters at Ardeo-Bardeo in Washington, D.C. serve smoked white potato mousse with egg and caviar.
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Originally published on Wed July 18, 2012 5:21 pm

It may not be obvious to the average shopper or diner, but the potato is an embattled vegetable. Yes, the simple spud, so ubiquitous, so unassuming, may be in need of a makeover.

That's at least the view of the U.S. Potato Board, the organization responsible for marketing American potatoes here at home and abroad.

"The potato has been in a rut," Meredith Myers, spokeswoman for the U.S. Potato Board, tells The Salt.

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Mountain Stage
11:41 am
Wed July 18, 2012

Cathie Ryan On Mountain Stage

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Cathy Ryan at North House Folk School Hosting NPR's Mountain Stage.
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Cathie Ryan makes her third Mountain Stage appearance in a show recorded on the shore of Lake Superior in Grand Marais, Minn.

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The Two-Way
11:38 am
Wed July 18, 2012

ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over Targeted Killing Of Three Citizens

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In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites in November, 2010.
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Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 4:30 pm

In a lawsuit filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights allege the United States violated the Constitution's gurantee of due process when it ordered the targeted killing of three United States citizens.

The groups filed the suit against top military and intelligence officials on behalf relatives of the three Americans who were killed in drone strikes in Yemen last fall.

NPR's Carrie Johnson filed this report for our Newscast unit:

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Anti-Government Protests Roil Egypt
11:33 am
Wed July 18, 2012

A Reporter Looks At Where Egypt May Be Headed

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Demonstrators chant slogans supporting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday.
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New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick standing in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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Originally published on Thu July 19, 2012 11:03 am

Reporter David Kirkpatrick covered Washington's political scene for many years for The New York Times. But early last year, he decided that he was ready for a change of scenery. Kirkpatrick volunteered to move to Egypt to become the Times' Cairo bureau chief — and boy, was his timing good.

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The Two-Way
11:28 am
Wed July 18, 2012

Reports That Gov. Christie Will Give Keynote Tamp Down Veep Talk

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).
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News that first broke in the New York Post would seem to signal that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to be the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee.

The Post reports that "the word is going out quietly to Republican activists across New Jersey. ... Gov. Chris Christie is going to be giving the keynote speech" at the GOP convention in Tampa next month.

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