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Who doesn’t love an underdog? A Rocky in the ring? With the audience for boxing eroding, the new ring is an octagonal cage. In popularity and profits,…

In the course of the great recession, household incomes went down and food prices went up. The combination did no favors for the American diet. Sales for…

Grain is a key ingredient in the American diet.Many of us are familiar with the US Department of Agriculture’s food pyramid with bread, cereal, and pasta…

At the dawn of the MP3 era, music-lovers digitized their CD collections, racking up thousands of hours of songs on their home computers, while clearing…

OK. Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. You're on planet Earth. But where are you,…

If it seems like you’re hearing a lot about autism these days, it’s likely because more kids are being diagnosed with it.Nationally the rate of children…

All this week, NHPR’s Amy Quinton has reported on some of the challenges facing the Great Bay.Pollution is threatening the health of the estuary, but…

"A national treasure in our backyard"It spans more than 13,000 acres. Nearly a quarter of the state’s population lives within its watershed. In a weeklong…

Lancaster’s John Weeks, who was responsible for the Weeks Act of 1911 that gave the government the authority to create national forests, appreciated…

If we could travel back in time 100 years, the landscape we’d see in Northern New Hampshire would be quite different from what it is today.Many of the…