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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    North Carolina's floods

    Some of the flooding in North Carolina could lead to an environmental disaster. That’s because North Carolina is, as the New Yorker puts it, the slaughterhouse of the East Coast. There are 45 times as many hogs as people in the state.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 19, 2018 • 1 min read

    Some of the flooding in North Carolina could lead to an environmental disaster. That’s because North Carolina is, as the New Yorker puts it, the slaughterhouse of the East Coast. There are 45 times as many hogs as people in the state. There are millions of chickens in poultry farms as well.

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    Drug education in the era of legal weed
    1. 0:00Senator Feinstein on Kavanaugh
    2. 9:40North Carolina's floodsYou’re reading this
    3. 19:38Drug Education in the era of legal weed
    4. 29:02The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
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