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							 Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That's been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs. 
							
							 
						
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							  "This isn't a reunion, this is a comeback," quibbled the red-hatted irrelephant in a BBC interview.  
							
							 
						
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							   There has been plenty of hand-wringing, in these parts, over the decline of the local broadsheet. The  Providence Journal  is the paper of record, after all, the agenda setter. And the agenda is decidedly thinner these days.   
							
							 
						
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							   Is Twitter driving the ongoing political crisis in Iran?   
							
							 
						
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							 So we went a little overboard taking pictures of NO DOUBT and PARAMORE. Can you blame us? 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							 Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That's been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs. 
							
							 
						
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							   There has been plenty of hand-wringing, in these parts, over the decline of the local broadsheet. The  Providence Journal  is the paper of record, after all, the agenda setter. And the agenda is decidedly thinner these days.   
							
							 
						
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							   The US Supreme Court's June 18 decision denying prisoners access to DNA testing — a procedure that could reliably prove innocence — adds to the high court's decades-long shameful record on criminal-justice issues.   
							
							 
						
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							  SurfLand at Peabody Essex Museum,  photos by Joni Sternbach, now showing through October 4   
							
							 
						
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							   Is Twitter driving the ongoing political crisis in Iran?   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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