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    The Hidden Costs of Your Morning Coffee

    Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of a fascinating new book. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation  explores all the unseen ways we pay for getting cellphones from China, coffee from South America, Africa and Asia, and seltzer from our neighborhood supermarket.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Todd Purdum • Apr 15, 2016 • 10m Listen

    Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of a fascinating new book. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation explores all the unseen ways we pay for getting cellphones from China, coffee from South America, Africa and Asia, and seltzer from our neighborhood supermarket. We take all this for granted. But should we?

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    The Battle for New York
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    3. 41:56The Hidden Costs of Your Morning CoffeeYou’re reading this
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