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Linguists discover previously unidentified language in Malaysia

Linguists discover previously unidentified language in Malaysia

Swedish researchers were studying one rare language in Southeast Asia, when they discovered a group of 280 resettled people speaking a different language, never observed or documented before.

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Mister Rogers is coming back to your neighborhood, on a stamp

Mister Rogers is coming back to your neighborhood, on a stamp

The stamp will be dedicated in a first-day-of-issue ceremony held in WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Pittsburgh, where Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was filmed.
by Asia Simone Burns

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MPR executive assigned to supervise Live from Here

MPR executive assigned to supervise Live from Here

Tim Roesler will assume responsibilities for the show that succeeded Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
by Laura Yuen

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Best Buy to pull CDs from its stores, according to report

Best Buy to pull CDs from its stores, according to report

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates that 112 million people worldwide now pay for access to streaming services.

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Immortality, sadness and drinking with Shakespeare in 'How to Stop Time'

Immortality, sadness and drinking with Shakespeare in 'How to Stop Time'

Matt Haig's new novel isn't exactly about time travel -- it's about a slow-aging man who travels through time just by staying alive for centuries. And yes, he meets Shakespeare (who has bad breath).
by Jason Sheehan

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Danez Smith on 'writing America down'

Danez Smith on 'writing America down'

Lately, Danez Smith can't talk about poetry without also addressing the political climate that surrounds it.
by Kerri Miller and Suzanne Pekow

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How "At the Hop" got its name

"At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 60 years ago Tuesday.
by Cathy Wurzer

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From Bieber to Buber, Zadie Smith's 'Feel Free' mixes high and low

From Bieber to Buber, Zadie Smith's 'Feel Free' mixes high and low

Reading Zadie Smith's big-hearted, eloquent new essay collection is a lot like hanging out with a friend who's just as at home with pop stars as she is with philosophers.
by Michael Schaub

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After 16 years, Afghanistan war is 'at best a grinding stalemate,' journalist says

After 16 years, Afghanistan war is 'at best a grinding stalemate,' journalist says

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll warns that there is no end in sight to America's longest war: "Most of the generals ... say in public, 'There's no military solution to this war.'"
by Terry Gross

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