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How Combat Rations Got Into Your Kid's Lunchbox, WATCH: All The Careers Launched By 'The Daily Show', Meet Your Next Pair Of Jeans, Dislodged In New York, The Battle Over Scrabble's Dictionaries, Are Feminists For Or Against Sex Work? And Other Political Reads From This Week The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 5, 2015 WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP How Combat Rations Got Into Your Kid's Lunchbox pri.org For decades, the research the military has been doing to ensure tasty, affordable, durable and nonperishable meals for its troops has been making its way into the private sector and shaping many of the every day items on our supermarket shelves. Just take the lunch you made for your kid today. The bread, the cheese, the meat, the granola bar, the juice pouch — these are all items engineered in one way or another by the US military. END OF A COMEDIC EMPIRE WATCH: All The Careers Launched By 'The Daily Show' digg.com As "The Daily Show" winds to a close, lets look back at some of its most distinguished alumni, from their first appearance on the show to the trajectory their careers have taken since departing. DENIM WE DIGG SPONSORED Meet Your Next Pair Of Jeans mottandbow.com Mott & Bow cuts out the middleman to bring you premium quality, ridiculously comfortable jeans at a great price. And they'll ship you a second size (for free!) with their home try-on program so you can get the perfect fit. 'HOMME LESS' Dislodged In New York nybooks.com Where do the homeless go? And how many are there? Aside from the 60,000 in the shelters, untold numbers of people live on the street. A new documentary is a reminder of how far the homeless population now reaches in New York. WORD WARS The Battle Over Scrabble's Dictionaries newyorker.com Some sixty-five hundred new words — "lolz," "shizzle," and "blech" among them — will officially enter one of the two major competitive Scrabble lexicons on September 1st of this year. The grumbling that results when a word list lengthens is not so much about the inclusion of obscene or offensive words — but about the growing divide between two Scrabble communities: North America and everywhere else. THE ENTHUSIASM GAP Are Feminists For Or Against Sex Work? And Other Political Reads From This Week digg.com This week: Biden bides his time, Hillary is not a cyborg and Donald Trump may or may not be in the Illuminati. Get more stories on Digg.com → LEAPS TALL BUILDINGS IN A SINGLE BOUND Ginger Huber of the United States competes during the women's 20 meter high dive final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Denis Tyrin Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014