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Temple-hopping (or: the temples are hopping)

Arts, Culture & Media

It’s high season in Kyoto — this weekend, the autumn colors are at their brightest and it seems like the whole country plus several others have converged on the city to take a look. Luckily, there are dozens of temples (probably a dozen ‘major’ ones alone) with gorgeous landscapes and plenty of leaves to go […]

The World

Hot Air over Leaf Blowers

The Maple Leaf Rag

The World

Smoking is Out, Eating is In

Foliage Prognosis: Fair

Tech Note: Tobacco and TNT

Living on Earth’s Cynthia Graber reports on how tobacco might help clean up pollution from TNT.

Health Note

Living on Earth’s Diane Toomey reports on the health dangers of picking tobacco plants

The World

Tobacco Farmers

It was the cash crop of choice in many parts of the south. But with tobacco facing an uncertain future, reporter Leda Hartman checks in with some tobacco farmers in North Carolina to see how they’re faring.

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Hey, Marlboro Man, the FDA Is the New Sheriff in Town

Conflict & Justice

This week the Senate is expected to pass a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. To talk us through the details of the bill, we turn The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich.