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Mark Kurlansky

Baby Boomer Time Capsule: October 29 - 31

Jane Minogue | Posted 01.02.2013 | Fifty
Read More: General Foods, October, David Brinkley, Brooklyn, Frozen Food, Trolleys, Nbc, Peas, Media, Mark Kurlansky, Pacific City Lines, Streetcars, Huntley-Brinkley Report, Clarence Birdseye, Television, History, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, National City Lines, Light Transit, Tv, Fifties, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chet Huntley, Video, Fifty News
Jane Minogue

On October 29, 1956, The Huntley-Brinkley Report began on NBC and revolutionized television news.

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Happy Anniversary

Mark Kurlansky | Posted 06.20.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp, World Without Fish, Deepwater Horizon, Bp Oil Spill Anniversary, BP Oil Spill, Mark Kurlansky, 2011 Bp Oil Spill Anniversary, Green News
Mark Kurlansky

I was reminded of BP as I watched the Tokyo Electric Power Company catastrophe. Both disasters are gifts from an energy industry that reassures us their operations are safe while investing little in making sure of it.

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The End Of Wild Oysters? Understanding The Oysterpocalypse

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Oyster Reefs, Oysters, Endangered Species, Mark Kurlansky, Overfishing, Oysters Extinct, Home News

You know that list of vanishing species you keep hearing about? The one full of species that have been on the earth for millions of years, but that ha...

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Rap, Eloise, Seabiscuit And Doughnuts

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Market, Laura Hillenbrand, Books, Anis Shivani, Seabiscuit, Mark Kurlansky, Kay Thompson, Doughnuts, Book Review, Bestsellers, Edible Stories, Rap, Book Review Roundup, Reviews, Unbroken, Oliver Sacks, Lara Ferroni, Eloise, Books News

"Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Mark Twain The American-Statesman Twain was insistent never to write a coherent, chronological account of his life. A...

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