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This year's Orchids and Onions distinctions for San Diego architecture are coming up. And the event is looking for nominations from the general public. We'll speak with some of the people organizing t

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When Sharon Ruwart moved from California to Beijing in 2004, she thought she'd have to give up her beloved artisanal cheeses in China's largely cheeseless society. But the group she started, Beijing Cheese Society, is spreading a taste for fancy cheese in her adopted home country. Ruwart talks with Liane Hansen.

This is the costliest Olympics ever, with the top 12 sponsors spending around $866 million. But marketers say many Chinese still can't identify who the official sponsors are. And many are asking if the investment is worth it.

Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been buried in Moscow. Senior Russian literary and political figures attended the Orthodox Church service. Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate, was a fierce Russian nationalist. He died last Sunday.

A new study says sharks are necessary for healthy oceans, but commercial fishing is taking a toll on their populations. Each year, tens of millions of sharks are caught only for their fins. KPBS Envir

The man whose books on Soviet-era gulags earned him international acclaim and years of exile from his homeland has died. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died Sunday of heart failure. He was 89. Although Solzhenitsyn continued to write through his last years, it is largely his early work that he is remembered for today.