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The Oakland A's take a step toward moving to Las Vegas, and an ALMOST perfect game for the Chicago Cubs. Plus, Tom Goldman says goodbye - he's retiring!

For generations of Americans, making fun of fruitcake has been a holiday tradition. But a Canadian pastry chef and master food preserver would like us to reconsider our assumptions.

The middle school winners of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge offer their perspective on why talking about something so natural is so taboo — and why that's silly.

He's won the American Teacher Award, been awarded the National Medal of Arts, and made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. For 24 years, Rafe Esquith has taught at an inner city school in Los Angeles, inspiring his fifth graders to excel far beyond the low expectations often placed on poor, immigrant children.

Eleven-year-old Marley Dias went on a quest to collect and donate 1,000 books with a black girl as the main character. Spoiler alert: She did really well.

What to Expect When You Are Expecting is a perennial best-seller, but its detailed descriptions of virtually every moment of pregnancy can also make mothers-to-be a little crazy. Some women in pregnancy crave all that information, but for others, it's information overload.

In his new memoir, pro-nerd Simon Pegg talks Star Wars, comedy and the zombie apocalypse. And he weighs in on the ongoing genre controversy — the "schism in the church of the undead" — slow zombies versus fast zombies? Definitely slow zombies, Pegg says.

David Folkenflik asks attorney John Langford about using libel laws to combat misinformation in the media.

In his new book, How to Cook Everything: The Basics, Mark Bittman explains with careful instructions and 1,000 colorful photos how to stock your pantry, how to dice vegetables, which knives you should buy — and to really get back to basics — how to boil water. Originally broadcast March 19, 2012.

Some experts are concerned that both in-school assignments and the books kids read for pleasure may not be challenging them enough.