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The Salt
4:01 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

If TV's Your Cup Of Tea, Try A Character-Infused Blend

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What is a "tea blend?"
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"What is a 'tea blend?'" is a Downton Abbey-inspired mix of almond, vanilla and cream teas accented with rose hips.
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"Eleven," one of Cara McGee's blends inspired by the new Doctor Who, is described as "quirky and dark." Amy Pond — a blend in honor of one of the doctor's recent time-travelling companions — is a fiery orange, cranberry and rooibos vanilla chai.
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Two of McGee's teas inspired by the latest BBC incarnation of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick.
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McGee calls "Bilbow Brew" — inspired by The Hobbit -- her current favorite fandom blend. It combines Irish breakfast, sweet potato and vanilla green teas, and tastes "kind of like breakfast in the Shire," she says. "Smaug," on the other hand, has lapsang souchong, candy cane and ginger teas in it.
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"Sellsword Spirits" was inspired by Bronn from Game of Thrones.
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By Lydia Zuraw

Originally published on Mon April 29, 2013 6:27 pm

Apparently, fan fiction and fan art aren't the only options for expressing your love of Sherlock, Doctor Who and The Hunger Games. There's also tea.

If you visit the online tea store of Adagio Teas, you'll find a collection of "Fandom Blends." They're the teas that customers have mixed and named after characters in favorite TV shows, books, movies and comics.

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The Salt
3:19 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Sandwich Monday: The Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwich

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It's best to eat these standing up over some sort of catchment device.
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The sandwich turned Robert into an ice cream vampire.
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After Robert got to it.
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By Eva Wolchover

Originally published on Mon April 29, 2013 4:33 pm

Artisan health food giant Carl's Jr. is currently testing a new summer menu item: the Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwich. The timing couldn't be better, as it'll help you gain that final pesky 75 pounds before hitting the beach.

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U.S.
3:17 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

With Or Without Overhaul, Immigration Lawyers In Short Supply

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People attend a legal clinic for deferred action applicants in New York in August. Immigration attorneys say demand for their services outstrips the nation's supply of trained immigration lawyers.
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Originally published on Mon April 29, 2013 5:48 pm

With immigration a hot-button issue in Washington, some version of immigration reform is likely this year. Even so, immigrant activist Sandra Sanchez concedes that the country might not be ready for an overhaul of its immigration laws.

Sanchez, director of the American Friends Service Committee Iowa's Immigrants Voice Program, doesn't mean that in political terms, but in practical ones. "We need to be prepared for the wave of millions of potential applicants that will be needing ... legal services," she says. "And we will not have enough resources to serve them."

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The Two-Way
3:13 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Chinese Dreams: Freedom, Democracy And Clean Air

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Pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong sing and shout slogans during a January protest. Chinese leaders and the state-run media are now speaking often of the Chinese dream, though there's no real consensus on what it means.
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By and Angie Quan

Originally published on Mon April 29, 2013 4:22 pm

"What is your Chinese dream?"

With Chinese leaders and the state-run media now talking about the notion of the Chinese dream, we posed this question on our NPR Weibo account. In China, Weibo is the equivalent of Twitter. Within several hours, we received more than 100 replies.

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The Two-Way
3:09 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Afghan President Says CIA Cash Payments Were Small And Legit

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto (center) and Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen on Monday.
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Originally published on Mon April 29, 2013 3:40 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged on Monday that for the past decade or more, his office has been receiving secret cash payments from the CIA, but that it's only small amounts used for "operational" purposes.

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