Food stamp recipients document their lives in photos

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A Swedish fermented herring expert has been called to help "disarm" a 25-year-old can of the odorous Swedish delicacy that managed to literally raise the roof of a cabin in northern Norway.

"If there's any fish left in the can, I'm going to eat it," Ruben Madsen of Sweden's Surströmming Academy told The Local.

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Somebody at a school in California decided to commemorate Black History Month with a lunch menu of fried chicken, cornbread, and watermelon... and now claims they weren't trying to perpetuate stereotypes. Text and trainwreck under the cut.

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KONA, Hawaii - From the moment the bill to ban genetically engineered crops on the island of Hawaii was introduced in May 2013, it garnered more vocal support than any the County Council here had ever considered, even the perennially popular bids to decriminalize marijuana.Public hearings were dominated by recitations of the ills often attributed ( Read more... )

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Records show the chairman of the board for Jelly Belly Candy Company gave thousands to the campaign in California ( Read more... )

Plenty of enterprising local dining establishments are making marketing hay out of the shutdown, offering all kinds of free and discounted fare to furloughed feds ( Read more... )

Make Them Eat Cake
How America is exporting its obesity epidemic.

With this summer's news from the United Nations that Mexico has surpassed the United States in adult obesity levels -- one-third of Mexican adults are now considered extremely overweight -- U.S. foreign policy has come into sharper, or perhaps softer, focus. Despite first lady ( Read more... )

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