DAVID GREENE, HOST: Next, a New Year's toast from a bartender in the most populated city of the most populated country on the planet. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Shanghai. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: The bartender's name is spelled M-O-E. (SOUNDBITE OF T

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Unit 53 Fast-food Culture Serves up Super-size Americans Stop blaming people or their genes -- it's an abundance of unhealthy, heavily advertised, low-cost food that underlies the nation's obesity crisis. America is overlooking the real cause of its

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Many plays have been called kitchen sink dramas because of their attempts at realism. A new play takes that to the extreme. Oh My Sweet Land uses not only the sink but the stove, refrigerator, food processor, a chopping board and a

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