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What the Slow Food movement can teach the United States about education reform
A rare sighting hints that giant squid use a devious technique to get food.
Plus: A low point for the Catholic Church
After decades of making turkeys bigger, breeders are hoping new technologies can make them better.
Britain's horrifying experience taught us a few things, but perhaps not enough to preclude an outbreak of our own