The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Recovery

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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