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Holiday shopping is down, mall blight is up
This holiday shopping season may have been the slowest since 2008, thanks in part to extreme weather and a warmer winter.
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The $400 million plan to unsink a giant cruise ship
If the plan fails, the world's biggest passenger ship crash could still prove catastrophic for the protected coast of Tuscany.
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The year in food and farming
From GMO labeling to pink slime to food worker rights, here's a look at 2012's biggest food stories.
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Christmas trees aren’t just festive, they also eat methane
Christmas trees are really good at eating up methane from the atmosphere. Except when you cut them down. Then they suck at it.
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Meat company sues USDA to speed up horse meat sales
Valley Meat Co. hopes you'll try your next bowl of New Mexico's famous chili with some ground Black Beauty.
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Two middle-schoolers raised $10,000 to help save a 500-million-year old species
The nautilus, a type of mollusk, been around since dinosaurs were alive.
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Instead of building more parking spots, Parking Panda lets people rent out the ones they already own
Peer-to-peer parking could provide all the normal benefits of improved parking efficiency.
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EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has left the building
President Obama's lead environmental regulator leaves a record with some signal achievements but little headway on the biggest climate challenges.
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Pizza-flavored beer: Two great tastes that probably do not go great together
Locally produced pizza-flavored beer sounds less than reasonable. It sounds, actually, kind of gross.
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8-year-olds were right all along: It is possible to overdose on Brussels sprouts
Doctors are hoping to get the word out before it's too late: Brussels sprouts and blood thinner do not mix.
