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A New Hip-Hop Business Model That Sounds Familiar

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Black Hippy are (from left) Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul.

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Originally published on Wed May 30, 2012 5:09 pm

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Banned In Idaho, 'Five Wives' Vodka Says It Meant No Offense

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Bottles of Ogden's Own Distillery Five Wives Vodka at a state liquor store in Salt Lake City.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Wed May 30, 2012 4:47 pm

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They're "five wives who just like to get together and have a cocktail."

They're not meant to be a direct reference to polygamy and those kittens they're holding in their laps are ... just part of a photograph that's reflective of the 1890s to early 1900s.

For all anyone knows, they might be lesbians.

2:46 pm

Wed May 30, 2012

Kafka's Final Absurdist Tale Plays Out In Tel Aviv

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Franz Kafka (shown here circa 1905) is considered one of the 20th century's most influential writers. Before his death in 1924, he had published only short stories and a single novella, The Metamorphosis.

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Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, studied Hebrew in Germany during the last two years of his life. This is one of eight notebooks of his Hebrew studies that are part of the Israeli National Library's collection. Israel and an elderly Israeli woman are wrangling over Kafka documents that may include unpublished manuscripts.

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Eva Hoffe, shown here in a garden near her home in Tel Aviv, has Kafka's papers, but has not allowed outsiders to see them.

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The author Max Brod was Kafka's friend, literary agent and biographer. Kafka wanted him to burn his papers upon his death. But Brod published some of the work and bequeathed the remainder to his secretary, Esther Hoffe (shown here).

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Originally published on Sun June 3, 2012 7:31 am

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Franz Kafka published just a few short stories and a novella during his lifetime, yet he was considered one of the 20th century's most influential writers.

The rest of his work was largely kept secret, and literary scholars have long wondered what gems they might find among Kafka's papers.

The answer may ultimately lie on Tel Aviv's Spinoza Street, inside a small, squat apartment building covered with dirty, pinkish stucco that looks like it's seen better days.

2:22 pm

Wed May 30, 2012

What Air Traffic Can Teach Us About Kidney Transplants

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Waiting their turn.

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Originally published on Thu June 7, 2012 3:11 pm

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This is the second of two stories we're doing this week on organ transplants. See the first story, Who Decides Whether This 26-Year-Old Woman Gets A Lung Transplant?

Nikolaos Trichakis is a Harvard Business School professor who studies air traffic. He was watching the news one night when a segment came on about the waiting list for kidney transplants.

7:30 pm

Tue May 29, 2012

Doc Watson, Folk Music Icon, Dies At 89

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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson in the 1960s.

By Neda Ulaby

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 6:45 pm

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A mountain-born treasure of American folk music, Doc Watson, died Tuesday in North Carolina at age 89.

His manager said in a statement that Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, after abdominal surgery last week.

Watson was born in Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a three-room house he shared with eight brothers and sisters. He revolutionized not just how people play guitar but the way people around the world think about mountain music.

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