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Roughly 133 billion pounds of food go uneaten each year — much of it still edible. So for a half-year, the two filmmakers behindJust Eat It vowed to eat nothing but food entering the waste stream.

From the inescapable "Call Me Maybe" to Fiona Apple's intricate word puzzles to the strikingly gorgeous return of Iris DeMent, the Fresh Air critic counts down his favorite albums and musical moments of the year.

The federal government accuses Apple of using its monopoly power to stomp out competitors and keep customers from switching phones.

NPR's Don Gonyea interviews Meg James, a corporate media reporter for the Los Angeles Times, about reports that say Apple plans to offer a "skinny" package of channels for cable cord cutters.

Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker offers his picks for the best music of the year, including Fiona Apple's latest album and a Bob Dylan DVD. He also addresses the topic of women in music, and he talks about the year in hip-hop. Tucker is the film critic for New York magazine.

Apple is about to join Amazon and Netflix and get into the content-making business, sources say. Apple stands to boost revenue, analysts say, but finding success in Hollywood isn't easy.

All the news that is on Thursday, May 27, 2010

The Los Angeles Unified School District wants Apple to pay up for poorly performing software on its iPads.

The tech company says the move is expected to make it Austin's largest private employer. The city already has more Apple employees than anywhere else outside the company's headquarters in California.

Food and Drug Administration officials said they are looking into additional reports of illnesses and investigating whether any other products may be affected.