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You can get a cup of tea at Cui-Yan Palace atop Lotus Flower peak.

Tea, Tao and Tourists: China's Mount Hua Is Three-Part Harmony

One of China's five sacred mountains, Mount Hua is a lotus-shaped range of peaks and hub of Taoism. It has many harrowing paths to well-being — and to tea.

Donated comforters and towels in the storeroom at the winter shelter for homeless families in Vista. Volunteers try to send families off with a full set of bedding when they leave the shelter for transitional housing or their own rental unit. They are always short on pillows.

Network Of Winter Shelters For Homeless Opens In North County

Several winter shelters for adults open around North County on Monday. A shelter in Vista for families with children is already open with all beds full.

Big Bay Boom Promises Not To Be A Bust This Year

Expectations are high for tonight's Big Bay fireworks display. The show over San Diego Bay went spectacularly wrong last year, as 15 minutes of fireworks went up in 30 seconds. Garden State is taking steps to make sure that does not happen again.

Maryann Wolfe talks with Mawi Fasil during her AP American government class at Oakland Technical High School.

Pythagoras' iPhone: Is Listening A Lost Classroom Art?

We began our series, 50 Great Teachers, with a look at Socrates. Which raised a question: Do educators focus enough on teaching students how to listen?

Ye Haiyan is the activist known as "Hooligan Sparrow" — and the subject of a new documentary about her efforts to gain justice for six schoolgirls who'd allegedly been sexually assaulted by their principal.

When 6 Girls Are Sexually Assaulted, 'Hooligan Sparrow' Seeks Justice

It happened in China. One of the men who reportedly assaulted them was their school principal. We talk to the director of a documentary about this case.

James Green Sr. (Gary Cole) and Jane Green (Donna Murphy) in a scene from MERCY STREET.

Inside Mercy Street

Airs Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

A passerby walks past a Chipotle restaurant in Seattle in November that closed following one of two E.coli outbreaks that sickened scores of people.

Chipotle Faces A Criminal Investigation Into Its Handling Of A Norovirus Outbreak

More than 200 employees and customers were sickened last August at a restaurant in California. A grand jury subpoena requires Chipotle to produce a range of documents in connection with the outbreak.

San Diego Unified School District board President Marne Foster appears in an undated photo.

San Diego School Board To Vote On How To Replace Foster

The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education will decide Tuesday night how it will appoint someone to fill a vacancy created by last week's resignation of Marne Foster.

Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who questions whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life.

INDEPENDENT LENS: The Armor Of Light

Airs Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

#NPRreads: Rube Goldberg Machine's Dark Orgins And Spalding Gray's Last Days

For your weekend reading, our staff also recommends a piece on an HIV outbreak in Austin, Indiana.

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