Hello/Goodbye: What's In and What's Out

Out with the old and in with the new. Check out what's coming back into vogue and what is going out.

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HELLO: The Amish are coming to a state near you.
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HELLO: Orange Crush
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GOODBYE: Trays at college cafeterias.
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GOODBYE: Criminals on the loose.
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HELLO
Orange Crush.
Once hard to find outside the Midwest and Canada, the iconic soda will double its distribution early next year.

George Washington's boyhood home.
Smithsonian says that archaeologists have uncovered the house of Ferry Farm, overlooking the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Historians hope the site will fill in a few of the details about what the Founding Father was up to from the ages of 6 to 20.

The Amish are coming to a state near you.
The number of buggy-boogying, convenience-shunning Anabaptists has almost doubled since 1992, and many of them are looking far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country for farmland and jobs in construction and cabinetmaking.

GOODBYE
A speedy legal system.
WhoCanISue.com helps users determine whether they have a case—and, Time reports, lets them instant—message lawyers who advertise on the site.

Trays at college cafeterias.
No trays means no water or energy spent washing them. And the policy reduces food waste by about 30 percent too. In five years, says one expert, trays may not be around at all.

Criminals on the loose.

Fingerprints can already finger a suspect, but they may also reveal what he has been handling, reports the New York Times. An emerging technique called desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) can detect minute amounts of drugs, explosives, and poisons lurking in the whorls of the prints.
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