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Damir Sagolj/Reuters The Non-Thai Origins of Pad Thai
How did foreign cuisine become Thailand's national dish?
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Quartz Map: Where Americans Are Generous Tippers
And where they're scrooges.
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Reuters Starbucks to Begin Selling Booze Nationwide
Putting the "bar" in barista.
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Sean Dreilinger/Flickr America Is Falling Out of Love With TV Dinners
Stouffer's mac and cheese may be as delicious as ever, but consumers are turning away from pre-made, frozen meals.
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Map: The Countries That Drink the Most Tea
Move over, China. Turkey is the real titan of tea.
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Reuters Here Are the Countries That Drink the Most Coffee—the U.S. Isn't in the Top 10
Only one nation averages more than 2 cups of coffee per day. It's the Netherlands.
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Reuters How the World Drinks Whiskey—Visualized
India consumes half the world's whiskey, but the French drink the most per person. And guess the one country where they swallow even more American-made whiskey than Americans ...
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Nicky Loh/Reuters Hershey's Big Push in Chocolate-Mad China
The American confectionery company's purchase of Shanghai's Golden Monkey shows the power of the Chinese sweet tooth.
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Reuters Are Chinese People the World's Most Materialistic?
A new survey claims that in China, people identify their success by the things they own more than in any other country in the world. But is this so unusual in a developing country?
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Reuters Map: All the Countries That Contribute to a Single Jar of Nutella
Turkish hazelnuts, Malaysian palm oil, Nigerian cocoa, Brazilian sugar, French vanilla...
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thebarrowboy/Flickr The Most Commonly Awarded Grade at Harvard Is an A
Harvard students are enjoying some extreme grade inflation.
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Reuters/Beawiharta Getting to School Shouldn’t Be This Dangerous
Many children around the world miss school or drop out altogether because the journey is too risky.
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Reuters A New Tax Might Cost Mexicoke Its Signature Sugar
The Mexican soft drink's use of sugar, rather than corn syrup, has given it cult status among some American Coca-Cola purists, but a new levy may prompt the company to change its recipe.
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Reuters A Great Global Wine Shortage Is Here—and It May Only Get Worse
Last year saw the worst wine shortfall in a half-century. And there's little indication that world production can keep pace with the oenophilic hordes.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Americans Are Way Behind in Math, Vocabulary, and Technology
The United States ranks lower than other developed countries in many key skills, according to a new report.
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Reuters 'Nail Houses': Unlikely Monuments to Anti-Government Resistance in China
Property owners protest eminent domain abuse by staying in their homes -- even as everything around them is torn down.
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Nobody Likes Barbie Anymore
But American Girl Dolls are in
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Spain's Black Market Economy Is Worth 20% of Its GDP
One million Spanish people have jobs in the underground economy
