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  • The startup raised $1.6 million in seed funding to sell Liquid Death — water in a tallboy can. It sells itself as the punk option for bottled water drinkers, saying it will "murder your thirst."
  • That's what the Pokini family of Maui did after they won a Guinness record for the world's heaviest avocado. Most avocados weighs less than half a pound. The one they grew was more than 5.6 pounds.
  • The Senate minority leader has made his decision on the article of impeachment, a source familiar with his decision tells NPR's Susan Davis.
  • A report by the state Comptroller finds that New York ranks number one in being shortchanged in tax money from the federal government.A report by…
  • The satirists at The Onion had a field day with his vigor. In fact, Mayor Bill de Blasio even read from the article for the City Hall press corps.
  • A winter storm will continue to impact central and northern New York through Monday, with 6-12 inches of snow expected by Monday afternoon around much of…
  • In Merrimack, a warrant has been issued for the weather prognosticating groundhog. Police say that Phil predicted winter would last 6 more weeks, but didn't mention anything about all the snow.
  • Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Stephen Thompson from our Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast says be sensitive. They have 6 children and this is going to affect their lives going forward.
  • Gospel singer MARION WILLIAMS. Her trademark, a long-lasting high A-flat "whooo," has been adopted by most gospel and soul singers singers like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin. A self- proclaimed "Holy Roller", WILLIAMS received the Kennedy Center Honars Award this month in Washington for her lifetime achievement in the arts. When she's not performing, WILLIAMS sings traditional gospel at the African-Methodist-Episcopal church in Philadelphia--the first black church formed in America. Her new album is "Can't Keep It To Myself" (Schananchie). (Rebroadcast from 12/6/93).
  • Psychiatrist PETER D. KRAMER. Kramer has written "Listening to Prozac" (Viking Books): an examination of the larger issues behind drugs that reshape temperament. Prozac is the most widely prescribed antidepressant today, with some four and a half million users since its introduction in 1987. Kramer raises serious questions about this "miracle mood enhancer": are we headed into an age of cosmetic pharmacology? If a pill is not used to alter an illness, but rather personality, what then is "the self"? And what are the social ramifications for women, in light of the Valium and Lithium use of the 1960's? (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 6
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