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Peru and Chile are beefing over the origin of potatoes. Last week, Chilean agriculture minister Marigen Hornkohl proclaimed: "Few people know that 99 percent of the world's potatoes have some type of genetic link to potatoes from Chile." Peruvian Foreign Minister José Antonio García Belaúnde responded: "Obviously, the world has known for centuries that the potato is from Peru and that the Peruvian potato saved Europe from hunger." Charles Crissman of the International Potato Center: [T]he first potatoes came from what is today Peru." (via FP Passport)

Honda has started selling its zero-emission car, the FCX Clarity, which runs on electricity produced by combining hydrogen with oxygen. The Japanese auto manufacturer claims the FCX Clarity is three times more fuel efficient than a car that runs on gasoline.

The Latino-powered Broadway musical In The Heights won four Tony awards, including "Best Musical of the Year."

Snoop Dogg goes country in a new video, "My Medicine." (via Nah Right)

México and Florida, the two biggest producers of U.S. tomatoes, are being singled out as the sources of tomatoes tainted by salmonella. Over 200 people in 23 U.S. states became sick after eating the tomatoes. México, which produces over 80 percent of tomatoes consumed in the U.S., says it is being unfairly targeted after some American buyers began blocking tomato shipments at the U.S.-México border.

The number of bank robberies in the U.S. have jumped this year. Chris Swecker, chief security officer for Bank of America: "The economy is driving some of this. We're even getting some anecdotal stuff from bank robbers."