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Workers pour molasses onto a road in Playa Guiones.

Dusty roads in Costa Rica make for a sticky situation — literally

Environment

The roads of Playa Guiones, a sleepy Costa Rican surfing town, are paved with molasses. Every January, crews pour barrels of the sticky substance onto the streets of the town as an eco-friendly way to combat the dust problem during the dry season.

Bloomberg’s New York sugary drink ban blocked in court

Global Politics

“Sugar” a different kind of baseball story

Arts, Culture & Media

Singer-songwriter Bob Mould looks back with new memoir

Arts, Culture & Media

The Problem with Taxing Caribbean Rum

Immigrant High Schoolers Reflect on the American Dream

Conflict & Justice

11th grade student-author Edwin Soto talks with The World’s Jason Margolis about the challenges and opportunities of being a young immigrant from the Dominican Republic in the United States.

Nicaragua’s Rum Reservoir

During the Contra war in the 1980s, a Nicaraguan distillery was hide away some of its rum. But there was a long-term payoff: Flor de Caña ended up with one of the world’s largest supplies of aged rum.

My America: Abraham Verghese

Conflict & Justice

Today’s “My America” guest is Dr. Abraham Verghese, professor at Stanford University. Regarding the dislocation and alienation experienced by immigrants, he lamented not having had a more common American experience, but had great appreciation for it.

Earth Ear: Maple Sugaring

Heating up the sap at Moore’s Sugar Shack in Westbrook, CT.

The World

The best state foods of the northeast

Arts, Culture & Media

This month, our friends at Serious Eats are kicking off a new series, in which they look at the most emblematic foods from all fifty of our United States. Ed Levine, the founder of Serious Eats, talks with us about the Northeast edition.