"Heat Finds Victims From Seashore to the Rockies."
This New York Times headline is from July 9, 1921, but could well have been printed any day this past week. On Tuesday, families from the Midwest to East Coast continued to endure a record-shattering, unrelenting heat wave. BLOG POSTS  | Elliott Negin: Be Patriotic: Go Beefless on July 4th
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Americans eat a whopping 20 billion hot dogs every year --150 million of them on the 4th of July. The hot dog may be as American as apple pie, but this summertime favorite is not without controversy, past or present. |  | Tim McCully: Funding Resilience
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