Feb 15th, 2008 · Look at the back of a $1 bill and you'll see the two sides of the Great Seal of the United States. In one circle, an unfinished pyramid, topped with an eye in a floating triangle. in the other, a bald eagle clutching an olive branch in one talon and 13 arrows in the other. What does it all mean? Melissa Block talks with Priscilla Linn, senior curator of the State Department's U.S. Diplomacy Center.
Dec 11th, 2007 · Airlines are re-evaluating their menus to make them more "flavorful" and "nutritious," according to a New York Times report. You can now get meals like chilled black olive spaghetti, and orange chicken salad with roasted pecans. Those meals are available for six to eight dollars, on some flights run by US Airways, Midwest and Delta.
Aug 7th, 2007 · Italian extra-virgin olive oil has become so lucrative that adulterated olive oil has become the biggest source of agricultural fraud problems in the European Union. The FDA doesn't routinely test imported olive oil for adulteration, and some products are difficult to test.
Aug 6th, 2007 · Oliver Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of desegregating public schools, has died at age 100. In 1954, he was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Aug 3rd, 2007 · Oliver, a 9-year-old capuchin monkey, escaped from the Tupelo, Miss., Buffalo Park and Zoo on Tuesday. Ann Stewart, manager of the zoo's gift shop, talks about the search for him.
May 2nd, 2007 · A small-acreage farmer has taken advantage of the warm weather in southwest England by planting a crop that you usually see in the balmy Mediterranean -- olives.
May 1st, 2007 · California Institute of Technology sophomore Dvin Adalian and junior Ricky Jones, about their successful olive oil production, from olives collected on campus. Last fall, the two collected some 30 pounds of olives, used blenders in the dorm kitchen, pressed the olives between window screens and purified the oil by spinning it in centrifuges in a biology lab.
Jan 4th, 2007 · Sing, stomp and shout with tuba player Kendrick Oliver and the New Life Jazz Orchestra at Berklee College of Music in Boston -- they swing like a young Count Basie Band gone to church. Produced by WGBH in Boston, and hosted by WGBH's Eric Jackson, it's part of the Toast of the Nation New Year's concerts.