Damon Lindelof moderated a conversation with Charlize Theron, who stars in the new Ridley Scott thriller Prometheus, at the 2011 Comic-Con. Lindelof co-wrote the film.
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Logan Marshall-Green (left), Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender also star in the film, which opens in the U.S. June 8.
Damon Lindelof was a producer on the 2009 reboot of Star Trek, which seemed to win over loyal Trekkies. And this weekend Lindelof will earn the devotion — or wrath — of Alien fans. He helped write the screenplay for the new film Prometheus, an origin story for Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic.
Union shops in the private sector have dwindled in recent decades. Now, public union leaders across the country worry that they're losing political clout, bargaining power and members. That raises questions about whether unions fallen victim to their own success, and who needs unions.
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren continues to face criticism over undocumented claims she made that for several years she was Native American. Warren acknowledged that she told officials at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania that she was of Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage, but she insists that played no role in her hiring.
Released in 1963 and marketed with cosmetic updates ever since, the Easy-Bake Oven has introduced generations of American kids to the kitchen. But it wasn't the first toy to do so...
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Released in 1963 and marketed with cosmetic updates ever since, the Easy-Bake Oven has introduced generations of American kids to the kitchen. But it wasn't the first toy to do so...
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This 1971 Easy-Bake carries a Betty Crocker logo, part of a marketing partnership. But as one former Easy-Baker remembers, the just-add-water mix packets often "turned into glop" instead of baking properly.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, toy stoves differed from real stoves only in size. Made of steel or cast iron, they were heated with wood or pellets of solid fuel. "Cooking can be done upon this range," proclaimed one ad from 1892. The stove pictured here dates from the 1920s.
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Today's Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven has a sleek, retro-futuristic look. And the light bulbs have been replaced with a heating element, making it, perhaps, more oven than Easy-Bake.
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The Easy-Bake has always mirrored the latest fashions in kitchen technology. Since the 1980s, most models have taken their stylistic cues from microwaves instead of convection ovens.
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When electric ranges replaced wood and gas in the kitchen, oven toys followed suit, as seen in this Billy & Ruth toy catalog from 1935.
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The original boxy, turquoise, incandescent Easy-Bake has pride of place among kitchen appliances at the National Building Museum's House and Home exhibit. "It's something people always point at," says curator Sarah Leavitt. "It inspires a lot of love and nostalgia."
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The Little Chef line of electric toy stoves was popular in the 1950s and was even featured in a cookbook for children, Suzie's New Oven. This one was spotted at an antiques store in Comfort, Texas.
When curators at the National Building Museum were arranging domestic bric-a-brac for the recently opened House & Home exhibit, they agonized over the placement of an original 1963 Easy-Bake Oven. Did it belong, they wondered, in the playroom? Or in the kitchen?
On Thursday's Fresh Air, Tom Philpott, who covers food and the agricultural industry for Mother Jones, joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a wide-ranging discussion about the meat and poultry industries — covering topics like pink slime, proposed legislation affecting antibiotics in the livestock food chain,
A packaging mix-up led Sandoz to recall 10 lots of the generic oral contraceptive Introvale. The black arrow shows the inert pills in the proper location.
It's the third big recall of birth control pills because of packaging problems in less than a year. Taking the wrong pills at the wrong time can lead to an unintended pregnancy.
