The Sound of Young America is going to be renamed. I've always found the name endearing because it harkened back to Kids America which I grew up listening to, and because it's sort of long, but I'm looking forward to hearing what they come up with.

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A Few Recent and Not So Recent NPR Stories

Content Farms, by Zoe Chace

Are Vitamins and Supplements Necessary?, by Richard Knox

Hormones, Metabolism and Dieting, by Allison Aubry
Part of NPR's series on obesity.

Interview with Joan Didion about her book Blue Nights, by Susan Stamberg
I'd never heard her voice before. This book is on my list.

Why is College So Expensive? by Larry Abramson

Story on the Listeria Outbreak by Allison Aubry
I'm currently taking Microbiology so this caught my attention.