08:30 AM ET SOURCE Breakfast buffet: National French fries day While you’re frying up some eggs and bacon, we’re cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today’s food holiday. Born to be fast (food, that is) – July 13 is National French Fries Day. No matter how you slice them – crinkle or shoestring, thick-cut or curly – plunking thin strips of potatoes in oil is the kind of salty fried goodness that can’t be beat. Now we all know that “French” fries don’t really have ties to France at all, but where did these snacktastic sticks come from? Many countries have a history of frying potato slices in…

By the CNN Wire Staff July 12, 2011 8:32 p.m. EDT (CNN) source article — Former first lady Betty Ford was rememberedTuesday as a woman whose disclosures about her personal battles showed courage and grace and brought encouragement to others. “She was a tireless advocate for those struggling,” said former first lady Rosalynn Carter. “She was never afraid to speak the truth.” Ford, who died Friday at age 93, raised awareness of issues involving women’s rights, cancer, alcoholism and substance abuse during and after her stint as first lady. Carter, close friends with Ford, also recalled their work together as advocates for those with mental illness. A former president and first ladies present…

Copyright ©2005 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. Heard on Morning Edition May 9, 2005 – STEVE INSKEEP, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I’m Steve Inskeep. For some months now, we’ve been recalling the achievements of Albert Einstein. It’s been 100 years since he published four scientific papers that altered our understanding of space and time. Historians call it his miracle year, 1905. That’s the history we know, but journalism requires that we check up on the conventional wisdom, which explains how one of our correspondents began asking if Albert Einstein was really all that smart.…

by RICHARD HARRIS March 17, 2005 One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to the genius at the center of 20th-century physics. Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis — his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc². The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just…

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