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In a departure from her popular novels, author Barbara Kingsolver takes her family back to its roots in Appalachia to live off the land for her latest book. The clan learns to "eat deliberately."

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At a bland building in suburban New Jersey, Gary Vaynerchuk is demystifying the wine world. Through Wine Library TV -- an almost daily Web broadcast of wine tastings from his store -- Vaynerchuk hopes to put people at ease when they choose a bottle of vino.

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Earbuds that deliver sound directly to the ear canal have become increasingly popular. But hearing specialists are concerned that when earbuds are turned up too loud, they may cause lasting damage to young ears.

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For more than 30 years, foreign editor Loren Jenkins has returned to La Chiusa in the Tuscan hill town of Montefollonico for conviviality and fine Italian cuisine. Try the tasting menu of small plates -- and try to stay the night, he advises.

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Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old South Korean national, has been identified as the gunman who killed at least 30 people at an engineering building at Virginia Tech Monday, then turned the gun on himself. He was a senior English major who lived on campus.

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San Diego Union-Tribune: I was in a job interview for around 15 minutes when the interviewer got up and said he would be back in a couple of minutes. Just after he left, the phone rang. I assumed the call went on to his voice mail, but when the interviewer returned, he said this was a test.

Wired: The rise of the no-fly list.

Yahoo News: AP - The Supreme Court declined Monday to review a jury verdict against a newspaper for publishing a prison inmate's letter without verifying allegations it contained about a prosecutor.

BBC: Actor Richard Gere's embrace with Indian star Shilpa Shetty causes outrage for offending the country's culture.

USA Today: Angry crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere on Monday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress into ...

Financial Times: At least 22 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and many others wounded in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university. President George W. Bush said he was 'horrified' by the shooting. The university said it was 'a tragedy of monumental proportions'.

Washington Post: Americans by a narrow margin agree that Don Imus should have lost his nationally syndicated radio show last week, but while whites are evenly divided on the issue a sizeable majority of African Americans support the firing, according to a poll released today.

BBC: The worst shooting rampage in US history, at a university in Virginia, leaves 33 people including a suspected gunman dead.

National Geographic: On a remote Gulf Coast island crawling with venomous cottonmouth snakes, a scientist believes he has discovered an unusual truce between predator and prey.

Wired: If you aren't a Senator who can call up the head of Homeland Security, or a high-powered nun whose boss who can ring up Karl Rove, working free from government watch lists will be a tedious and not-very transparent process.

Michele Norris talks with L.A. Weekly restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who won a Pulitzer Prize this week. Gold specializes in reviewing little-known eateries in the Los Angeles area, as well as old standbys. Popular reviews have included "Home of the Porno Burrito" and "The Devil's Own Steak House."

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A publishing company from Iceland is bringing the blogosphere to print. Beginning with a new daily in Boston this month, bloggers will be able to share their musings -- and possibly break news -- in BostonNOW.

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The identities of Virginia Tech victims have been slowly revealed Tuesday. Here are remembrances of some of those who died.

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Walter Mosley, author of 25 books, gives tips, tricks and practical advice for stalled writers in his new book, This Year You Write Your Novel.

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Journalist Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe just won a Pulitzer Prize for national-affairs reporting. In an April 2006 article, he detailed how often President Bush has used "signing statements" to assert the right to bypass provisions of new laws; Savage's article prompted Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) to call for hearings investigating the matter. Rebroadcast from May 9, 2006.

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