After last year’s season of flops, network TV channels plan to strive for fresh, original programming. If they’re realize serious about shows with dinosaurs, fairy tale creatures and large-scale Broadway musical numbers, maybe they’re not kidding. [NY Times]
One of the world’s most controversial industries, coal mining, is trying to become popular with a new demographic: children. [Time]
The touching story of a gripping photo that came to represent the Freedom Riders and the civil rights movement: [CNN]
A Long Beach College professor reports that drinking beer and philosophy may go hand in hand. [Huffington Post]
Slate looks at the declining state of one of America’s fattiest fast food chains, Sbarro. Will baked ziti and pizza the size of your head still have a future in American shopping malls? [Slate]
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