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2:00 am
Fri February 24, 2012

Business News

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Steve Inskeep has business news.

Planet Money
10:01 pm
Thu February 23, 2012

A Revival In American Manufacturing, Led By Brooklyn Foodies

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Every week, Robert Stout of Kings County Jerky slices meat by hand.
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Juan Delgado (left) and Steve Kempf of Brooklyn's Lee Spring company stand with a 50-year-old coiling machine, still in use today.
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Originally published on Tue May 22, 2012 8:56 am

One day Chris Woehrle decided to finally leave his corporate job and pursue his dream: to become an artisanal food craftsman. And so, every day at home, he'd basically pickle stuff.

"I had a refrigerator full of plastic food buckets that were full of pickles and kimchee and sauerkraut and harissa and salsa and ketchup and mustard and, you know, any kind of craft food you could make," Woehrle says.

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Hollywood Jobs
10:01 pm
Thu February 23, 2012

The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life Of Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne's The Descendants has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editor and Best Actor. Payne co-wrote and directed the film, which stars George Clooney as an indifferent dad struggling to raise two daughters.
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Matt King (George Clooney) is a Honolulu lawyer left alone with his two girls after his wife falls into a coma.
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Life is a "collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments," Payne says. "We just need to pay attention to them all." Above, Payne stops at a farmers market near his home in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Payne heads off for a luncheon at the American Film Institute during what he says is an atypically busy week leading up to the Oscars.
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Alexander Payne watches a movie every day — or tries to, anyway. Lately, the writer and director of The Descendants has been busy going to nomination and awards dinners, in advance of Sunday's Oscar night — when the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay prizes could be his.

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Race
1:21 pm
Thu February 23, 2012

African-American Museum Has Its Groundbreaking

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On Wednesday, President Obama and a number of special guests celebrated the groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Smithsonian museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is expected to open in 2015.

Around the Nation
5:28 am
Thu February 23, 2012

Ohio Church Makes Lenten Ashes Easy To Receive

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Mount Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati offered a drive-thru blessing. Believers could get the traditional cross of ashes smudged onto their foreheads without getting out of their cars.

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