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The Pawpaw: Foraging For America’s Forgotten Fruit The pawpaw is a tropical-type fruit native to North America with a long and almost forgotten history. Thomas Jefferson once prized it, and now scientists are looking at whether the pawpaw can claim some health benefits, along with cachet. NPR’s Tiny Desk Kitchen goes on the hunt for [...]

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Mind-boggling, awe-inspiring legacy of a bibliophile president MalaysiaNews.net LARA MARLOWE From Thomas Jefferson’s original bequest of 6,000 books the Library of Congress has grown into a vast cultural institution“I CANNOT live without books,” Thomas Jefferson…

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