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Tom Philpott, who covers food and the agricultural industry for Mother Jones, joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a wide-ranging discussion about health and other issues affecting the meat industry.

When the Philadelphia Orchestra first visited China four decades ago, it was a prestigious, well-funded institution performing in a poor, underdeveloped nation. Now the orchestra is emerging from bankruptcy and hoping that an increasingly wealthy China can provide new streams of revenue.

When it comes to gaffes about sports stars in his city, Mayor Tom Menino is a hall of famer. See his latest malapropisms.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered an overlooked way cockroaches evade us. The bugs have an amazing ability to run fill-tilt to the edge of a countertop, table or bookshelf, flip to the other side and keep going without missing a beat.

Both the Republican and Democratic efforts boasted of receiving many of their contributions from small donors who gave $250 or less. The campaigns use that as a proxy for how much grassroots support each has as well as for a level of excitement they hope will extend into November. Romney's campaign said 93 percent of all donations came from smaller donors while Obama's claimed 98 percent.

Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan meets in Washington with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday. He wants the U.S. to buy into his latest effort to promote peace in Syria. Annan says there must be consequences for the Syrian government for not implementing the previous peace plan.

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep is continuing a road trip through nations of the Arab Spring. As he prepared to travel from Tunisia into Libya, he spoke with a journalist who's covered Libya for years. Lindsey Hilsum is the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.

The taco is made with a shell of nacho cheese Doritos. Taco Bell's chief executive hailed it as a "flavor pairing waiting to happen." After a big media blitz, taco lovers have spoken — by buying 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos in about 10 weeks.

The well-known concert venue is on the market, according to The Hollywood Reporter. David Greene takes us back to the Palladium's beginnings as an art deco ballroom back in the 1940s.

High school students graduating in Prince Georges County, Md., got a surprise on their diplomas: a typo. The diplomas celebrated that each of the 8,000 students had completed an "approved "progam" of study." The Washington Post reports that the school system has ordered new diplomas and apologized.