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The U.S. The Department of Agriculture granted $500,000 to a group recently to help build a maple syrup industry in the Mountain West. At least one business is already doing this in Montana, but organizations across the region are working together to spread awareness and research a possible syrup industry in our own backyards.

Margaret Cho is wll-known for her bawdy stand-up comedy that takes no prisoners on the topics of sexuality and race. But with her new burlesque show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho takes on body image as well. Cho talks with Andrea Seabrook about baring it all onstage.

Fresh Air's TV critic speaks with Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me) and Barry Sonnenfeld (The Tick) about their new comedy-drama Pushing Daisies. The show combines romance, fantasy and mystery — and features a man who can bring the dead back to life with a mere touch. Pushing Daisies premieres Wednesday, Oct. 3, on ABC.

Three brothers, privileged but bereft, go looking for themselves on a trek through rural India. Fresh Air's film critic says Anderson manages to sustain a sense of lyric melancholy — though he could use more perspective on his characters' over-entitlement.

The Darjeeling Limited, director Wes Anderson's newest film, opened the New York Film Festival this weekend. Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the screenplay and plays Jack Whitman, talks about the role India plays in the movie.

On the second anniversary of the playwright's death, Michele Norris talks to two actors from the Broadway production of his final play, Radio Golf.

Rita Moreno's acting career spans more than five decades and is decorated with the business' highest honors: the Tony, an Oscar, a Grammy and two Emmy awards. Many remember her work in the hit production West Side Story. Moreno talks about her mother's influence, her fear of being type cast and her role in Cane.

Snacking on water beetles in Laos, dining on dog in Korea: Tom Parker Bowles, food writer for Britain's The Mail on Sunday, Night and Day, and Tatler (and son of Prince Charles' wife, Camilla Parker Bowles), has written what he's described as "a travel book about weird food."

French authorities are calling for tougher penalties on people who damage works of art after someone put a fist through Monet's "The Argenteuil Bridge."

Philip Roth's newest novel, Exit Ghost, is his ninth and final Nathan Zuckerman book. The series began in 1979 with The Ghost Writer; a compendium, Zuckerman Bound, is now available. Roth, author of 28 novels, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for American Pastoral.