New Hampshire Public Radio: Campaign 2012
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An Updated Energy Plan For The Granite State?
With lots of proposals on the table right now, from biomass to wind to hydropower, efforts are underway once again to develop a statewide plan and judge these projects with that broader frame of reference in mind. But it’s not an easy process, taking into account various concerns from the environment to property values to energy costs.GuestsTBA
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Business Owner Describes Major Destruction After Tornado
Melissa Block talks to Casey Mongold, owner of Casey's Tire and Auto in Moore, Okla., where a tornado caused widespread destruction on Monday.
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Forecasters Had Chance To Warn Moore, Okla., Before...
Melissa Block talks to Jon Hamilton about the science of tornadoes.
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Tweets Capture 'Shock And Awe' At Tornado's Deadly Power
Our colleague Andy Carvin has scanned Twitter in search of reaction, including photos and video, from the massive tornado that swept through central Oklahoma on Monday.Among the tweets:Sidney Montoya of Oklahoma City says he is "Praying for my little cousins in Moore, their elementary school just got hit by the tornado."And Dennis Varghese, who also lives in Oklahoma City, says: "Just overheard a lady break down and say, 'my house is gone!' and now worry
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VIDEO: A Time-Lapse Of The Tornado In Oklahoma
NBC News has put together a time-lapse video of the EF-4 tornado that tore through the southern suburbs of Oklahoma City, Okla.As we told you in the live blog, the National Weather Service says it was at least an EF-4 tornado with winds in excess of 166 mph. The tornado stayed on the ground for 40 minutes and traveled 20 miles. Copyright 2013 NPR.
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A Brief History Of Oklahoma Tornadoes
Although Oklahoma is a state where tornadoes are a fact of life, few days stand out like May 3, 1999.That was when some 70 tornadoes touched down over a 21-hour period, cutting paths of destruction like deep cuts of a knife blade in and around Oklahoma City.
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Key Charge Against Ex-BP Official In Spill Case Dismissed
It's another bad day for the Justice Department.A federal judge in Louisiana has thrown out the central criminal charge against a former BP executive because prosecutors failed to prove he knew about a pending congressional investigation into oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico three years ago. U.S.
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Measuring The Power Of Deadly Tornadoes
Damaging tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, causing widespread damage that is still being assessed, and additional severe weather is expected.One of the hardest hit areas, Moore, Okla., is no stranger to devastating twisters.
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Ray Manzarek, Founding Member Of The Doors, Dies
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and a founding member of The Doors, died Monday in Germany. He was 74.A statement from publicist Heidi Ellen Robinson-Fitzgerald said Manzarek died in Rosenheim, Germany, after a long battle with bile duct cancer.Manzarek and Jim Morrison founded the iconic band after meeting in California.
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Superior Court Judge Puts Hold On Homeless Evictions...
Merrimack County Superior Court judge has put a hold on all evictions from Concord homeless camps on state lands. The ruling came during preliminary hearing Monday for the suit filed by three homeless Concord men.The hold on evictions will run for at least 10 days and up to the next court hearing. About 150 homeless people were removed from camps around Concord earlier this month.
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The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced
Opponents of expanding background checks for gun sales often raise the fear that it would allow the government to create a national gun registry — a database of gun transactions. In fact, federal law already bans the creation of such a registry. And the reality of how gun sales records are accessed turns out to be surprisingly low-tech.The trace begins after police seize a gun at a crime scene and then reach out to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Tracing...
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Mont. One-Room School House Boasts International...
Melissa Block talks to teacher Shelly Hoisington. Hoisington teaches fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade at McCormick Elementary School — a one-room school in Troy, Mont. Hoisington recently convinced Gov. Steve Bullock to speak at the graduation ceremony for the five students in eighth grade.
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At L.A.'s UnCabaret, 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
A lot of the stand-up comedy that gets done in Los Angeles is really just comics auditioning for parts in TV or movies.Not at UnCabaret: For 25 years, it's been a place to hear unvarnished, rough-edged ideas being tried out — mostly for the first and possibly only time.Michael Patrick King, co-creator of the sitcom 2 Broke Girls, has worked out some issues there. So has comic, actor and Twitter titan Patton Oswalt, who took the stage to tell a tale about a date that changed his life.
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Tornado Ravages Oklahoma City Suburb
Melissa Block talks to Joe Wertz of the public radio initiative State Impact about the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City area on Monday.
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An Ancient Religious Pilgrimage That Now Draws The...
A 1,200-year old European pilgrimage route is experiencing a revival. Last year alone, some 200,000 followed in the footsteps of their medieval forebears on the Way of St. James, making their way some 750 miles from Paris across France to the Spanish coastal city of Santiago de Compostela, and the relics of the eponymous apostle.But now, what was once a strictly religious affair has become a cultural and social phenomenon that attracts the nonreligious as well.
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Folk Show Calendar 5.19.13
Wednesday, May 22 Blind Boys of Alabama at Stone Mountain Arts Center ~ Brownfield, ME ~ 8pm ~ www.stonemountainartscenter.com 207-935-7292 Thursday, May 23 Dave Gunning at Deb’s House ~ Chesham, NH ~ Pot Luck:6pm, Concert:7pm ~ Reservations required as space is limited ~ 603-827-2905 www.acousticmusic.com/chesham </P
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NHPR Folk Show Playlist 5.19.13
Song/ Artist/ Album/ Label Song/ Artist/ Album/ Label I Knew This Place/ David Mallett/ Greenin' Up/ North Road Records Older 'n Everybody/ Lou and Peter Berryman/ House Concert/ Cornbelt Records <TD style="WIDT
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Syrian Troops Target Key Rebel-Held Town
Dozens of people are dead in heavy fighting around the Syrian rebel-held city of Qusair where troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are making a strong push.News reports say as many as 50 people are dead.NPR's Jonathan Blakley, who is in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, is reporting on the fighting for our Newscast Unit:"Qusair is a strategically important town that lies between the city of Homs, where the Syrian uprising began two years ago, and the Lebanese border.
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Decades Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
Sometimes you need some distance to appreciate a classic.That was certainly the case for John Williams' novel Stoner. When it was originally published in 1965, the only publication to mention the book at all was The New Yorker, in its "Briefly Noted" column. The novel received admiring reviews over the years, but sold just 2,000 copies and was almost immediately forgotten.Fast forward to today and the book is experiencing a renaissance of sorts.
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Two Excerpts You Should Read From Obama's Morehouse...
President Obama, on Sunday, delivered a rare, very personal commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male insitution that is the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.It was a short speech, but Obama did not shy away the subject of race and responsibility. We've embedded video of the address above, but here are two excerpts you should read. They are taken from his prepared remarks:On Personal Responsibility:"We know that too many young men in our...
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Boom Or Bust? Saving Rhode Island's 'Superman' Building
Rhode Island is home to beautiful beaches, top-notch universities and a thriving arts scene.
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Remembering The Long Lost Germans Of Texas
More than a century ago, German settlers found a pocket of Texas to call home between Austin and San Antonio. And once the local lingo merged with their own language, it proved to be an interesting dialect. Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with University of Texas professor Hans Boas, who has been archiving the last remaining speakers of this unique blend.
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Deke Sharon Makes A Cappella Cool Again
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The Movie Katie Aselton Has 'Seen A Million Times'
The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.Actor-director Katie Aselton's credits include the TV show The League, and the films Jeff, Who Lives At Home and Black Rock— currently in theaters and on VOD.
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Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'
The main character of Claire Messud's novel, The Woman Upstairs, is a good woman. Nora is a 37-year-old elementary school teacher — responsible, kind and reliable. She is also very, very angry.Her dreams of being an artist have been suppressed; she is seething inside with rage and resentment. But she keeps her anger in until she meets another woman who has everything she does not: a husband, a child and a successful art career. And then everything begins to unravel.
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North Korea Fires Another 'Short-Range Projectile'
North Korea launched another short-range projectile on Sunday, just a day after they launched three similar objects.The projectile landed away from neighboring countries in the sea off North Korea's east coast.As The New York Times explains, South Korean officials moved away from calling the objects missiles, as they did yesterday.
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Gay In The Eyes Of God
Open any Torah, Bible or Koran, and the passages about homosexuality seem clear: being gay is an abomination; a sin; something that incurs the wrath of God. But for some, these interpretations are changing. "Gay in the Eyes of God" explores the ways in which the major American religious traditions grapple with acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. We present personal stories as well as interpretations of scripture and theology - both traditional and progressive.
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WSJ: Yahoo Board Approves $1.1 Billion Purchase Of Tumblr
The Wall Street Journal has this breaking news from the tech world:"The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr."The Journal, the only outlet reporting the approval, is sourcing its story to "people familiar with the matter." Lauren Armstrong, a Yahoo spokeswoman, told us in an email that they "don't comment on rumors or speculation."The Journal's sister site, <
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On Sunday News Shows, Obama Official Plays Defense
Talk during the Sunday news shows today focused expectedly on the trifecta of scandals — IRS targeting of conservative groups, the seizure of AP phone records and the attack of the Benghazi consulate — rocking the Obama a
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Police Accidentally Killed Hofstra University Student
After analyzing forensic evidence, Nassau County Police in New York said on Saturday that it was a shot fired by an officer that killed 21-year-old Andrea Rebello.Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University, was being held hostage by a masked gunman who broke into a house she shared with her sister. Police came looking for the man, when he turned a gun on them. The man allegedly had Rebello in a headlock.CBC News reports that's when an police officer shot eight rounds.
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New 'Trek' Goes 'Into Darkness,' But Not Much Deeper
The opening sequence of J.J. Abram's new entry in the Star Trek universe has all the ingredients of the classic franchise.There's Kirk and his crew bellowing on the bridge, everyone worrying about the prime directive and our favorite Vulcan trapped in a volcano.OK, I'm in. I may not be a fanboy anymore, but I sure was in my youth, and having these guys in their youths again is just as cool at the outset as it was last time.Chris Pine's baby-Shatner is spitting his lines while Zachary Quinto...
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Alzheimer's Cases Rise, But Hope Remains
More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease, and the National Institute on Aging estimates that that number is going to triple by 2050 — in part due to aging baby boomers.The cost of coping with the disease — currently estimated at $215 billion — is projected to rise to half a trillion dollars by 2050.
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Prominent Pakistani Politician Shot, Killed On...
On the eve of a re-vote, a prominent Pakistani politician was shot and killed on Saturday.Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports that Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's Movement for Justice (PTI), was shot in the head during "an attempted robbery incident.""According to police," Dawn reports, "robbers tried to steal Hussain's hand bag and opened gun fire upon resistance by the PTI leader outside her residence in Defence Housing Authority Phase-
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Impossible Choice Faces America's First 'Climate...
Climate change is a stark reality in America's northernmost state. Nearly 90 percent of native Alaskan villages are on the coast, where dramatic erosion and floods have become a part of daily life.Perched on the Ninglick River on the west coast of the state, the tiny town of Newtok may be the state's most vulnerable village. About 350 people live there, nearly all of them Yupik Eskimos. But the Ninglick is rapidly rising due to ice melt, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the highest...
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'Waiting To Be Heard' No More, Amanda Knox Speaks Out
When 20-year-old Amanda Knox left for Italy in August 2007, it was supposed to be a carefree year studying abroad.No one could have foreseen it ending in her being accused, tried and convicted in the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher.The case, and Knox, became an international media sensation."I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me," she tells weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden.
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Three-Minute Fiction Reading: 'Plum Baby'
NPR's Susan Stamberg reads an excerpt of one of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. She reads Plum Baby by Carmiel Banasky of Portland, Ore. You can read the full story below and find other stories on our Three-Minute Fiction page or on Facebook. Copyright 2013 NPR.
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Internships: Low-Paid, Unpaid Or Just Plain Illegal?
Summer is almost here, and with it comes the army of interns marching into countless American workplaces. Yet what was once an opportunity for the inexperienced is becoming a front-line labor issue.More and more, unpaid and low-paid interns are feeling their labor is being exploited. Some are even willing to push back — with lawsuits.One of the most high profile intern-versus-employer lawsuits suffered a setback last week that could have implications for other cases.
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The Common Core: Coming To A School Near You
New Hampshire is among some forty states to adopt this more rigorous set of standards for math and language arts in public schools. But just as this bi-partisan effort becomes reality, the system is facing some backlash from both the right and left. We’ll find out more about Common Core and the challenges it faces getting off the ground.
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Bashar Assad: A Political Solution In Syria is 'Unreal'
Syrian President Bashar Assad essentially dismissed attempts by the United States and Russia to bring the civil war in the country to a political solution."Believing that a political conference will stop terrorism on the ground is unreal," Assad said in an exclusive interview with the Argentine newspaper El Clarin.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Most Excellent Adventure
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Fresh Air Weekend: Gerwig, Baumbach, Dawes And Polley
Fresh Air Weekendhighlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interview with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
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Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill
After protests from some MPs and after only about 15 minutes, the Afghan parliament halted debate Saturday on a bill aimed at curbing violence against women.As the BBC reports, the bill would have solidified a law passed by presidential decree in 2009, which banned "violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages."Supporters of the bill wanted to bring it before parliament to make it more permanent.
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Draco Rosa: A Pop Survivor Returns From The Brink, With...
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'Scandal': Preposterous, Unmissable, Important
OK, let's get this out of the way: Scandal is a ridiculous show.The hit ABC drama about a Washington "fixer" named Olivia Pope just wrapped up its second season with one of its trademark cliffhangers.(Assume spoilers, y'all.)Scandal's plot arcs aren't really arcs so much as straight vertical lines or curlicues.
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WATCH: NASA Spots Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Recorded
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Injuries Reported In 'Major' Train Derailment In...
Two Metro-North Railroad trains have collided on a stretch of track near Fairfield, Conn., causing a "major derailment" and "preliminary reports of injuries," according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[Update at 8:55 p.m.
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Why the IRS Scandal Is Built To Last
Of all the controversies swirling around the Obama White House, the Internal Revenue Service scandal seems likeliest to have the longest shelf life.While the Benghazi affair has long been in the news, it's never really taken off as an issue beyond the Republican base.Meanwhile, the Obama administration's position that national security considerations justified the Justice Department's gathering of journalists' phone records in a leak investigation may be enough to remove fuel from the...
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Need A Tattoo Translated? Forget The British Foreign...
The British Foreign Office is happy to assist its citizens, but officials want to make clear that there are some requests they won't fulfill.Such as supplying Olympic tickets or doing a background check on that Swedish woman you met online.Those are just a few of the "often good natured" but distracting requests that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) says it received over the past year, according to a press release issued Thursday.Some others that no doubt provided stodgy Briti
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'Venus And Serena': An Extraordinary Story, Told On Film
It's Cinderella plus Jackie Robinson times two. When Venus and Serena Williams burst onto the lily-white world of tennis, they changed the game and made history: They were sisters. From a poor neighborhood. Who brought unprecedented power to the game. And both reached No. 1.Their journey is the subject of a new documentary called Venus and Serena, showing in select theaters around the country."It's not just about sports," says co-director Maiken Baird. "I think of it as the great American...
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Previously, On Arrested Development
We wrote down all the recurring gags in every episode (like Lindsay's charities), how they connect to each other, and when they were being foreshadowed (like when Buster lost his hand).Click for obsessive detail: http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/ Copyright 2013 NPR.
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America's Cup Death Raises Concerns Over High-Tech Race...
America's Cup, the oldest and most prestigious sailing competition, has hit some choppy water.The death last week of British sailor and gold medal Olympian Andrew "Bart" Simpson when the boat he was crewing capsized and broke up during a practice run off San Francisco, has prompted tough questions about safety.Simpson reportedly drowned after being trapped for 10 minutes underneath the stricken boat belonging to Sweden'
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Experts Agree: 'Psychiatry's Bible' Is No Bible
When the American Psychiatric Association releases its new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- DSM-5 -- this weekend, lots of journalists and commentators will refer to it as "psychiatry's bible." That's a term that makes the manual's authors and other mental experts cringe.
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Michigan LGBT Youth Center Does Outreach With A Dance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4M8Av-SnPA
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Boston Bombings Prompt Fresh Look At Unsolved Murders
An unsolved triple murder in the Boston suburbs is getting a closer look in the wake of the marathon bombings. One of the victims may have been a friend of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. That's prompting authorities to revisit the 2011 case.The murders took place in Waltham, Mass. On Sept. 12, 2011, police responded to a house in the leafy suburb a few miles west of Boston."They went to the second floor and saw a very graphic crime scene — three dead bodies in the apartment," said Gerry...
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Obama U: What Graduation Speeches Say About The President
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State Hears Ideas For Launching Health Exchange
Health providers, small business owners and reform advocates attended a brainstorming session in Concord on Friday. State Insurance Department officials organized the event, seeking input on how best to implement the new health exchange in New Hampshire.A range of ideas were offered, from social media campaigns to informational events at hardware stores to old-fashioned word of mouth. Participants stressed a need to reach all communities, including minority and non-English speaking groups,...
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Bobby McFerrin: Spirituals As Sung Prayers
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Week In Politics: IRS, Benghazi Emails, AP Phone Logs
Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss controversial IRS audits, the release of White House emails on Benghazi talking points and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone logs.
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Next Week On The Exchange - May 20, 2013
Next week on The Exchange, we begin with the end of NECAPs, the standardized tests that Granite State students have long taken are being replaced by a whole new system. Then, an energy plan for New Hampshire with so many proposals on the table now, some say it’s time to look at “the big picture”. And we’ll close out the week with our Friday New Hampshire news roundup. E-mail us at NHPR dot org and join us all next week for The Exchange every morning live at 9/and again at 8 pm, here on NHPR!
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Illinois Lawmakers Send Medical Marijuana Bill To...
The Illinois Senate has approved a measure to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes, sending the bill to the governor for his signature.The bill would be the strictest in the nation. According to The Chicago Tribune:"The proposal would create a four-year trial program in which doctors could prescribe patients no more than 2.5 ounces of marijuana every two weeks.
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Head Of Sexual-Harassment Program At Fort Campbell...
The manager of the sexual-assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., has been arrested in a domestic dispute and has been relieved of his post.The Associated Press reports:"Lt. Col. Darin Haas turned himself in to police late Wednesday on charges of violating an order of protection and stalking.
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Bipartisan House Group Says It's Reached Immigration Deal
Members of a bipartisan group of House lawmakers say they've overcome disagreements and have reached a tentative deal to overhaul the nation's immigration system.Eight Democratic and Republican House members left a two-hour closed-door meeting Thursday evening, saying they would be working on drafting the measure, The Associated Press reports."We have an agreement in principle. We're now going to work on finishing up the drafting of the bill," said Rep.
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Who Are The Terrorism Informants In Witness Protection?
Known or suspected terrorists who cooperated with federal investigators in at least six major terrorism investigations over two decades were granted protection under the federal witness protection program –- and two of them temporarily could not be found by federal authorities, according to a report from the Justice Department's inspector general.Identities of some of the alleged terrorists were not disclosed to the agency that compiles names for the Transportation Security Administration's...
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Federal Prosecutors Arrest Uzbekistan National On...
Authorities in Idaho have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges, the Justice Department announced Thursday evening.Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested in Boise on Wednesday, prosecutors say.
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There's No Ignoring This 800-Pound Gator
You've heard of the 800-pound gorilla in the room that everyone ignores? Well, here's an 800-pound alligator that's getting some attention.The 14-foot beast, the heaviest ever recorded in Texas, was bagged by a Houston-area high school student last week at a wildlife management area near Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south of San Antonio.Braxton Bielski, 18, is credited with the kill.
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Some Lawmakers Want Big-Budget Groups Included In IRS...
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Congress: Where Food Reforms Go To Die?
Two seemingly common-sense, bipartisan food reforms have gotten mugged on Capitol Hill in recent days. If you're a loyal reader of The Salt, you've heard of them.First, there's the proposal — backed by an odd-couple alliance of egg producers and animal-welfare activists — to set minimum standards for the housing of egg-laying chickens.
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Restaurant Week New Hampshire To Highlight Granite State...
Friday is day one of Restaurant Week New Hampshire, aimed at showcasing Granite State cuisine and the people who produce it.Amy Traverso is Senior Lifestyle Editor at Yankee Magazine. She joins All Things Considered host Brady Carlson with a preview of the event.
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Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?
The American Psychiatric Association is about to release an updated version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM helps mental health professionals decide who has problems such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia.Psychiatry's new manual, DSM-5, has been nearly 20 years in the making. During that time, scientists have learned a lot about the brain.
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Left Without New Star Trek Episodes, Fans Create Their...
The next Star Trek movie comes out this week. It's been four years since the last one came out, and more than 40 years since the final episode of the original Star Trek series aired on television. Some fans moved on. Some spent the intervening decades pining away for Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the rest of the crew of the Starship Enterprise. And some took up the gauntlet Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry threw down in 1966 and started making episodes of their own.
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Report: Problems At Justice Allowed Terrorist Suspects...
Officials at the Department of Justice didn't share crucial information on some terrorist suspects in the federal witness protection program with the agency that maintains the "no fly" list, allowing an unknown number of them to board commercial flights, a new report says."We found that the department was not authorizing the disclosure to the Terrorist Screening Center of the new identities provided to known or suspected terrorists" in the federal Witness Security Program, known officially...
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No More Smuggling: Many Cured Italian Meats Coming To...
American gourmets and lovers of Italian food products, your days as food smugglers are over.No more stuffing your suitcases with delicacies bought in Italy, hoping the sniffer dogs at JFK or other American airports won't detect the banned-in-the-USA foodstuffs inside your luggage.In the U.S., they're called cured meats, the French say charcuterie and in Italy, the word for cured-pork products is salumi.
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Disabled Workers' Victory Exposes Risks To Most...
Four years ago, 21 men with intellectual disabilities were emancipated from a bright blue, century-old schoolhouse in Atalissa, Iowa. They ranged in age from their 40s to their 60s, and for most of their adult lives they had worked for next to nothing and lived in dangerously unsanitary conditions.Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won a massive judgment against the turkey-processing company at which the men worked.
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At Least Six Dead After Tornadoes Tear Through North...
A series of tornadoes ripped across north Texas on Wednesday night, killing six people and injuring dozens of others. The strongest tornado hit the city of Granbury with winds approaching 200 mph. Rescue crews were going door-to-door on Thursday searching for survivors.
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Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring'
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Can Stay Work Play Save The Day?
Started in two-thousand nine, “Stay work Play was an initiative aimed at attracting and retaining young adults in the Granite State. But New Hampshire’s demographic is still among the oldest in the nation.We’ll look at this effort and how it’s going, also what obstacles those who want to “stay work play” face, from high housing costs to lack of nightlife.Guests
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Take Your Seat, The 'No Photography' Sign Is Lit
You probably saw this bit of Internet virality earlier this week — showing a woman getting kicked off an American Airlines flight for channeling Whitney Houston.What caught our attention was the sound of flight attendants repeatedly ordering passengers not to take pictures or (presumably) videos.Apparently, it's an official rule at American Airlines:"The use of still and video cameras, fil
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Obama Announces Resignation Of Acting IRS Commissioner
President Obama announced late Wednesday that the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steve Miller, has resigned in the wake of a report that employees at the agency engaged in partisan scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.The president, appearing for a brief statement at the White House, said he had directed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew "to accept the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS."He said it was part of a larger effort to "make sure...
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Jury Finds Jodi Arias Eligible For Death Penalty
A jury has found Jodi Arias, the Arizona woman found guilty last week of first-degree murder for killing her onetime boyfriend in a fit of rage, eligible for the death penalty.The Associated Press reports: "The decision came after a day of testimony Wednesday during which prosecutors had to prove the murder was committed in an especially cruel and heinous manner."As Scott Neuman reported for us last week, Arias, 32, initially denied involvement in the <a...
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House Supercommittee Narrowly Rejects Senate-Passed...
Members of the so-called casino supercommittee spent its morning getting familiar with 17 separate amendments. The proposals ranged from beefing up regulatory oversight, to changing the way casino proceeds would be distributed among towns and counties, to allowing slot machines at any establishment that holds a liquor license.But when the committee reconvened after lunch, the first motion came quickly, and it was to kill the bill.“We may be 45 very bright people, but not one of us has a...
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NASA Says Kepler's Planet-Searching Days May Be Numbered
The planet-hunting career of NASA's Kepler spacecraft might be near its end.Astronomers said Wednesday that a reaction wheel that keeps the orbiting telescope pointed at tiny, distant patches of sky to look for Earth-like planets, has failed.
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White House Addresses Benghazi Emails, IRS Audits
The White House has released 100 pages of internal emails related to the development of talking points after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year. President Barack Obama also addressed the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Audie Cornish talks to Scott Horsley.
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An Eisner Nomination For A New Hampshire Comic Artist
For filmmakers there’s the Oscars, for children’s authors there’s the Newbury Award, and in the world of comics and comic art, there’s the Eisner Awards, named after legendary artist and author Will Eisner.This year one of the Eisner nominees for Best Publication for Early Readers up to age 7 is Sara Richard, who lives and works here in New Hampshire. She’s nominated for her book “Kitty and Dino.”
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L.A. Schools Throw Out Suspensions For 'Willful Defiance'
School suspensions are a big issue in California. Last year, schools handed out 700,000 of them. But the Los Angeles Unified School District took a step to change that this week when it voted to ban suspension of students deemed "willfully defiant."Before the vote, the district maintained a zero tolerance policy for students who failed to comply, in any way, with any policy or direction given by teachers or school administrators — covering everything from mouthing off to wearing baggy pants.
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A Songwriter And An Army Dad Share One Touching Story
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One Reason To Apply For Tax-Exempt Status: Anonymity
Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted some conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny have put a spotlight on a part of the tax code increasingly popular with political groups: section 501(c)(4).But what's the benefit for organizations to get approved for 501(c)(4) status?The Mississippi Tea Party, a volunteer organization, first applied for tax-exempt status in 2010.
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Leaks, Bombs And Double-Agents: More On That AP Story
The Justice Department's subpoena of Associated Press phone records as part of an investigation into what Attorney General Eric Holder has called "a very grave leak" to the news agency has set off a political firestorm on Capitol Hill, but there's a lot to the AP story published a year ago that started it all.You can read it yourself here. The May 7, 2012, story cites unnamed sources who told the news agency that the CIA had thwarted a plan by a Yemeni affiliate of al-Qaida to destroy a...
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Ten Things We Learned From the IRS-Inspector General...
Scintillating isn't how you'd describe the report issued by the Treasury inspector general's report on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups.It was written, after all, by government bureaucrats for government bureaucrats.
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Richard Swanson Didn't Reach Brazil, But He Found An...
Hundreds of condolences are appearing online for Richard Swanson, the Seattle man whose plan to dribble a soccer ball all the way to Brazil to raise money for charity ended Tuesday after he was struck and killed by a pickup truck in Oregon.
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Maryland Suburb Says 16 Is Old Enough To Vote
If you're old enough to drive, are you old enough to vote?You soon will be if you live in Takoma Park, Md.
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IRS Inspector General Faults 'Ineffective Management'
Audie Cornish talks to Scott Horsley about the IRS Inspector General's report on the agency's audit of conservative groups.
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Road Crew In Belize Destroys Ancient Pyramid
A construction crew in search of gravel to use as road filler used its backhoes to level one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids."It's a feeling of incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Jaime Awe, the head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, said of the destruction at the 2,300-year-old Nohmul pyramid, located in the Orange Walk/Corozal area."It's like being punched in the stomach.
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With No Unified Database, Many Murder Victims Remain...
A serial killer who committed suicide in an Alaska jail last year confessed to murdering at least 11 people across the country. But Israel Keyes didn't name names, and investigators trying to figure out who he killed are running into a major stumbling block: There is no unified, mandatory national database for missing persons.One of the few known victims was Anchorage resident Samantha Koenig. She was selling coffee at an espresso stand outside a gym when Keyes abducted and killed her.
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Huge Boost In U.S. Oil Output Set To Transform Global...
U.S. oil production is rising sharply and increased output from shale will be a "game changer" in global energy markets in the coming years, according to a new report out Tuesday by the International Energy Agency."U.S.
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Homeless And Advocates Protest Recent Evictions
Faith leaders, activists and homeless people held a rally Tuesday afternoon asking Governor Maggie Hassan to stop the state from evicting people from camping on public land.
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Baseball's 'Most Durable Batboy' Marks 55 Years On The...
The University of Memphis baseball team plays its final home game of the season Tuesday. In addition to rooting for the players, Memphis fans will cheer for someone else: batboy Stan Bronson Jr.But "boy" is a relative term. Bronson is 84, and this year he celebrates his 55th year in the honorary position with the University of Memphis Tigers.
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More Online Voter Registration Could Better Secure Vote...
New Hampshire lawmakers have been looking at whether to make changes to the state’s voter identification law. Critics say provisions of the law, set to take effect this fall, would cost the state money and cause delays at the polls.
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Convicted Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Gets Life In...
The Philadelphia abortion provider who was found guilty of first-degree murder in three illegally performed late-term abortions will be spared the death penalty.Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted Monday, agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal.
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State Unemployment Rate Dips To 5.5%
New Hampshire’s unemployment rate in April fell to 5.5%, down from 5.7% in March, according to new data from N.H. Employment Security.During the month, the state’s economy added 3,400 jobs, with some of the biggest gains in construction and retail.Local and state government shed an estimated 1,000 jobs during the period.The national unemployment rate stands at 7.5%.
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Senate Urged To Exclude Tips From Business Enterprise...
Hospitality industry advocates are urging lawmakers to exempt employee tips from being calculated into business enterprise taxes.Adrienne Rupp with the Business and Industry Association says the push back is in response to a rule change by the Department of Revenue Administration.“Where they have begun applying the BET, the business enterprise tax, to tips earned by employees.”
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Commissioner Says Money Will Put 'Flesh On The Bones' Of...
State officials continue to press for action on $340,000 in federal money meant to help implement the health exchange in New Hampshire.Speaking to the Joint Health Care Reform Oversight Committee, Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny repeated the need for quick acceptance of the grant money. Last month, a different legislative body, the Joint Fiscal Committee, delayed the funds, citing concerns over a lack of information.
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Experts Say Prize-Winning Photo Of Gaza Funeral Is...
The striking image of grief-stricken men carrying two young boys to a mosque for their funeral in Gaza City was hailed for capturing a poignant human moment in an ongoing conflict.The photograph was taken last November; it was named the World Press Photo of the Year on Feb. 15.
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Workers Exempted From Furloughs
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers learned today they will no longer be furloughed.
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A Sign of Disunity? Iranian Candidates Jockey For...
Nearly 700 presidential hopefuls have thrown their names into the ring for Iran's June 14 presidential elections. But two last-minute entrants have altered the shape of the already-chaotic race: a former president once dismissed as a has-been and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator.Although not exactly a free-for-all, analysts say, there's a clear sense that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has failed to unify the political elite behind a single establishment candidate.
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How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In...
If it's a Monday, you can usually find Dr. David Brown parked next to a lake in Miami, spending the day inside a 36-foot-long RV. He's not on vacation.Brown is chief of family medicine at Florida International University's medical school. The RV is the school's mobile health clinic.Every Monday it's parked at the Royal Country Mobile Home Park in northwest Miami-Dade County. "It's a beautiful place right here," he says.
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U.S. Obtained AP Journalists' Phone Records
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today we learned of some news from the Associated Press in which the AP is at the center of the story. The newswire service reports that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of editors and reporters' phone records from last year as part of a government investigation. Late today, the Justice Department issued a statement saying it strives to strike a balance between the need for information in criminal cases and the rights of individuals and news...
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Supreme Court Sides With Monsanto In Seed Patent Case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.Billed as David vs. Goliath, the case pitted an Indiana farmer against the agribusiness behemoth Monsanto.Almost all the soybean farmers in the U.S. use seed that is genetically altered to be resistant to weed killers like Roundup. That allows farmers to spray for weeds without killing the soybeans.
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Associated Press: Feds Secretly Obtained Reporter Phone...
The Associated Press news agency says that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of telephone records on 20 lines used by its reporters and editors.The records covered April and May 2012, and according to the AP:" ... listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to...
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TV Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers Dies At 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, whose long-running television show dispensed advice on life and relationships to her viewers, has died in New York at age 85, according to her publicist.She died on Monday of natural causes, Sanford Brokaw said.Brothers, who was a pioneer of the television advice show, first gained fame as a winning contestant on the television game show "The $64,000 Question" in 1955, becoming the only woman ever to win the top prize.
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Speaking Up About Violence In A "Forgotten" Country
It may be the largest war in the world that we don’t hear about. The death toll of what is now called the Great War of Africa likely stretches into the millions.
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Why Humans Took Up Farming: They Like To Own Stuff
For decades, scientists have believed our ancestors took up farming some 12,000 years ago because it was a more efficient way of getting food.
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ABC's Live Streaming Aimed At Keeping Cable Cords Intact
There's another way television is moving online. Starting Tuesday, ABC will let viewers in New York and Philadelphia watch their local stations over the Internet.
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Poll: Americans Split Over Benghazi Issue
Americans appear to be split over the Obama administration's handling of the aftermath from the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S.
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An 'Entrepreneurial Seedling' Sprouts In Detroit
Detroit is littered with empty warehouses — more than 7,000, by one estimate. They've become skeletons of the city's industrial past.But not this warehouse, where Jennifer Blake is feeding quilted fabric through a sewing machine. She's making a coat. Fashioned with Velcro fastenings, it has a sleeping bag that slips out on the bottom, and is made of recycled car parts, she says.Blake is one of a half-dozen women doing this in a sunny corner on the second floor of a 30,000-square-foot...
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Card-Carrying Cajuns? Louisiana Lawmakers Weigh ID Change
A bill making its way through the Louisiana Legislature would let Cajun citizens celebrate their ancestry by customizing their driver's license, adding the phrase "I'm a Cajun" below their photograph.It would cost $5 to add the message; the money would go toward "scholarships distributed by the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, a program promoting French language and culture in the state," reports NOLA.com.The Senate has already <a href="http://www.legis
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As Stigma Eases, Single Motherhood In Mexico Is On The...
On her daily route delivering laundry in her working-class neighborhood in southern Mexico City, Maria Carlotta Santa Maria, or Mari, as she is known, seems to know everyone: the mailman, the woman on the corner selling salty nuts, and her favorite greetings are for the guys at the corner gas station.Mari is the kind of person that can make this inhospitable and overwhelming megacity seem almost small and friendly.
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Bloomberg News Apologizes For Tracking Subscribers
Bloomberg News' Editor in Chief Matthew Winkler has apologized for the use by reporters of proprietary data about subscribers to the company's business terminals. The practice was entrenched in a newsroom that was carved out of the lucrative terminals leasing division.
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Sandwich Monday: Tamale Spaceship
Chicago's Tamale Spaceship food truck happened to land near our office this Sandwich Monday. We considered it our duty as hungry earthlings to eat as many tamales as it takes to ensure we're never called up for NASA's astronaut program.The tamale heroes who run Tamale Spaceship wear Mexican wrestling masks.
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Western Retailers To Fund Upgrades At Bangladesh...
Four retailers who represent the largest purchasers of clothes produced in Bangladesh announced Monday that they have will help finance safety upgrades at apparel factories in the South Asia country after the collapse of a garment complex killed more than 1,000 workers.The news comes as the death toll in the April 24 collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza near Dhaka rose to at least 1,127, according to officials.In a statement from Sweden-based H&M and Inditex, the parent company of Zara,...
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IRS Under Fire For Targeting Conservative Groups
President Obama expressed outrage Monday over the Internal Revenue Service's admission that it targeted certain conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
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Folk Calendar
Monday, May 13 The Fretless at the Colebrook Country Club ~ Colebrook, NH, ~ 7pm ~ www.gnwca.org 603-237-9302, 603-246-8998 Friday, May 17 Delbert McClinton w/ The Dusty Gray Band at the Flying Monkey ~ Plymouth, NH ~ 7:30pm ~ www.flyingmonkeynh.com Derek Knott at the Sunapee Coffeehouse ~ Sunapee, NH
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Folk Show Playlist 5.12.13
Song/ Artist/ Album/ Label Candles In The Rain (Childless Mothers)/ Darrell Scott/ A Crooked Road/ Full Lights Every Mother's Son/ Chris Smither/ Hundred Dollar Valentine/ Signature Sounds And Her Mother Came Too/ Don McLean/ Favori
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N.H. House Panel To Vote On Casino Bill
A special joint House panel will vote Wednesday whether to support legalizing a casino in New Hampshire.The House Ways and Means and Finance committees will discuss possible changes to a Senate bill that would allow up to 5,000 video slot machines and 150 table games before voting on a recommendation.
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GOP Call For Inquiry Of IRS Targeting Of Tea Party Groups
Republican lawmakers on Sunday called for a full investigation of the Internal Revenue Service after it was revealed Friday that it had singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for heightened scrutiny in applications for tax-exempt status.The IRS has apologized, and described the incident as a bureaucratic mistake carried out by low-level agency employees.
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Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation
Larry Bright holds his 3-year-old son's hand while the boy steps through a leafy playground in Silver Spring, Md., and practices counting his numbers in English.At the top of the slide, the boy begins counting in his other language: Vietnamese.Bright, the boy's father, is African-American; his mother, Thien Kim Lam, is Vietnamese.
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Seth Myers Named Host Of NBC's 'Late Night'
Comedian Seth Meyers will replace Jimmy Fallon on NBC's Late Night, the network announced Sunday.Meyers, the longtime SNL cast member who anchors the show's "Weekend Update" segment, will take the 12:35 a.m.
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Is It Safe To Use Compost Made From Treated Human Waste?
Any gardener will tell you that compost is "black gold," essential to cultivating vigorous, flavorful crops. But it always feels like there's never enough, and its weight and bulk make it tough stuff to cart around.I belong to a community garden in Washington, D.C., that can't get its hands on enough compost. So you can imagine my delight when I learned that the U.S.
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Balancing Influences: Saxophonist Mahanthappa Blends...
When a single review compares an artist's work to both Mahavishnu Orchestra and The Stooges, hardcore rock music fans sit up and take notice.That's the high praise the Los Angeles Times bestowed upon saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa.You'll find the Indian-American's work filed under jazz, but it's hard to find a style he doesn't touch.
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The Movie Mark McKinney Has 'Seen A Million Times'
The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.Writer-comedian Mark McKinney's credits include the TV shows Slings and Arrows, Kids In The Hall and Less Than Kind — currently airing on HBO Canada.
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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsckbFwU2SQ
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After Long Wait, Novelist James Salter Shares 'All That...
On the list of great postwar American male novelists — along with Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and John Updike — is James Salter.With the publication of his first book in 1957, he won the admiration of writers and critics alike. But after 1979, his production slowed. Salter still wrote — essays, short stories, poetry — but nothing on a grander scale.Now, that long-awaited novel has been published. All That Is sets out to give a sweeping portrait of human experience.The novel introduces the...
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Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found DNA Into Portraits
Heather Dewey-Hagborg was sitting in a therapy session a while ago and noticed a painting on the wall. The glass on the frame was cracked, and lodged in the crack was a single hair. She couldn't take her eyes off it."I just became obsessed with thinking about whose hair that was, and what they might look like, and what they might be like," she says.On the subway ride home, she noticed all of the insignificant things people left behind — a dropped cigarette butt, a chewed-up piece of gum.
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Banksy Mural May Be Coming To U.S. After All
You might remember the story of the uproar earlier this year over a piece of art by the mysterious graffiti artist Banksy that disappeared from its home on a wall in north London and ended up on the auction block in Miami.That auction was canceled, and residents of Haringey Borough, the area from which the mural disappeared, were j
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Vinyl Cafe: Mother's Day
The Vinyl Cafe features music - both live and recorded from new and established artists from throughout Canada. It also chronicles the misadventures of Dave, owner of a small record store and his family and neighbors. Host Stuart McLean is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humorist.
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For Year-Round Buzz, Beekeepers 'Fast-Forward Darwinism'
Beekeepers In Massachusetts are taking the mission to save the bees into their own hands.There has been a dramatic disappearance of honeybees across the U.S. since 2006. A recent U.S.
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In Guantanamo, Have We Created Something We Can't Close?
The crisis at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp keeps growing in size and intensity. According to the military's own count, 100 of the 166 men held in the prison there are now on hunger strike, and the 27 most in danger of dying are being force-fed.Last month, guards had to forcibly subdue a camp where even the most cooperative detainees are held.The hunger strike was triggered by a February search of inmates' Qurans, though the details are hotly disputed.
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The 'Curious' Story Of Robert 'Believe It Or Not!' Ripley
Before there was YouTube or Mythbusters or The Amazing Race, there was Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley.Ripley's pioneering mix of the strange, the shocking and the barely believable grabbed Americans' attention and grew his newspaper cartoon into a media empire.Neal Thompson's new biography, A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley, follows Ripley from his childhood as a misfit doodler in Santa Rosa, Calif., to his international fame as a world...
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LL Cool J On 'Accidental Racist' And Authenticity
LL Cool J has been making music for more than 25 years. Through it all, he says, he's tried his best to remain authentic."The last thing that I want to do is be a hack," says the rapper and actor, born James Todd Smith. "Someone who is adapting to whatever the current trend is, and manipulating the public into being on board with me even though, from an artistic standpoint, I'm not doing anything."Authentic is the name of LL Cool J's new album.
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Pakistanis Brave Violence To Cast Historic Votes
Pakistanis voted in parliamentary elections Saturday after a violent campaign season that left dozens dead. NPR's Julie McCarthy is in Lahore and tells Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath the latest.
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A Mother's Day Gift That Makes You Feel Better, Too
Dear reader,Mother's Day is upon us and I'm here to share some news with you.
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Dramatically Different Medicare Bills Set Hospitals...
For the first time, the federal government has publicly shared what hospitals bill Medicare for the 100 most common diagnoses and treatments.The information shows hospitals across the country — and across Alaska — bill dramatically different prices for the same things.Hospital veteran Rick Davis, the CEO of Central Peninsula General Hospital in Soldotna, was eager to review the <a href="http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Da
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In Cleveland, 30 Minutes Of Bravery Ended 10-Year...
Until today, there's been a rush of news related to the kidnapping of three young women in Cleveland, their rescue after a decade in captivity and the chilling details that have emerged about what they went through. Now, the news has slowed.
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Experts Marvel At How Cyber Thieves Stole $45 Million
With a haul of $45 million, it's being billed as possibly the biggest cyber-heist in history.
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Nashua Fundraiser Set For Bombing Victim Bauman
A fundraiser in New Hampshire will take place to benefit Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeffrey Bauman, whose vivid description of one of the bombing suspects helped police crack the case.
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Emotions Run High After Boston Bombing Suspect's Burial
The news that Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a rural cemetery just north of Richmond, Va., is causing controversy there.According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, concerns are being expressed by "a local Islamic leader, Caroline County officials and some n
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Pakistanis 'Defy Violence' To Vote In Landmark Election
Despite attacks in the days and weeks leading up to Saturday's voting — and deadly bombings and other attacks on the very day they're going to the polls — Pakistanis are showing they're willing to "defy the violence," NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Lahore.There's "a determination to see it through," she tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, and to be part of the "lan
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Schools? How About A Science Laureate At The Super Bowl?
The same scientist who famously "killed Pluto" (as a planet, that is) says it's "brilliant" that there's an effort underway in Congress to name a science laureate.But Cal Tech's Mike Brown tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon that he doesn't think a laureate's main responsibility should be to visit sch
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Fresh Air Weekend: Messud, Volk And Scorsese
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts.
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The X-ray Vision Of Mothers
Mothers have eyes in the back of their heads. They may not show up on X-rays, but they're there.Like a lot of youngsters, I used to get my mother to turn her head so I could search through her hair for the eyeballs she claimed to have back there, telling her, "No you don't! No you don't!" But when I'd scamper off to another part of the apartment and pick up an ashtray or fiddle with the window blinds, I'd hear my mother's voice ring out, "I can see you!
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LIVE: Webcast Of Astronauts' Spacewalk
Two astronauts went on a last-minute spacewalk Saturday to replace a pump suspected of being the source of a serious ammonia leak.It was unclear what caused the ammonia leak, NASA spokesman Rob Navias said, "but the installation of this spare pump package — at least at the moment — seems to have done the trick."NASA officials called the spacewalk a success, but said it would take time to see if the leak was indeed stopped.
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Former Guatemalan Dictator Found Guilty Of Genocide
The genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt ended Friday with a conviction. A panel of judges found him guilty after a six-week proceeding. Rios Montt, however, denies responsibility for massacres and other crimes committed against Mayans during his 1982-1983 rule.
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IRS's Tea Party Scrutiny Adds To Conservatives' Case...
Benghazi move over, make room for IRS-gate.As if the Obama administration's conservative critics didn't have enough fodder with last year's attacks on a U.S.
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Spacewalk Planned To Repair Station's Leaky Cooling...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will undertake a spacewalk Saturday morning to try to repair a leak in their cooling system.The leak appears to be ammonia used in a power supply. It was spotted midmorning on Thursday. Commander Chris Hadfield reported seeing "a very steady stream of flakes or bits" floating away from the station. On the ground, mission control noticed a steady drop in ammonia levels on one of the station's eight power channels.
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'It Led Us On A Journey': The Musical World Of 'The...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCD48IwMGhY
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White House Denies Any 'Substantive' Edits To Benghazi...
The White House says it made only minimal changes to the now-discredited talking points used to discuss the deadly attack last year on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.The remarks, by White House press secretary Jay Carney, came in response to an ABC News exclusive on Friday that detailed changes to a memo used by U.N.
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How Swedish Malort Became Chicago's Mascot Bitter Drink
The people who make Jeppson's Malort, a harshly bitter spirit that's consumed in shots or cocktails, don't mind that their product makes people grimace.
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President Asks Moms For Help Promoting Obamacare
President Obama met with a group of mothers on Friday to talk about selling relevant aspects of Obamacare to a young generation that often takes its healthy condition for granted and avoids the cost of insurance.
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Study Reveals Wild Disparities In American Hospital...
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a massive spreadsheet containing a comparison of what hospitals across the country bill for the 100 most popular medical procedures. The document revealed wild disparities in pricing from hospital to hospital. Robert Siegel speaks with Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt, who studies health care economics, about how the American hospital system evolved this way.
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Book Review: 'A Nearly Perfect Copy'
Book critic Alan Cheuse has a review of A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend.
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Benghazi Investigator Reacts To Criticism Of His Report
Robert Siegel speaks with former top diplomat Thomas Pickering, who led the State Department's investigation into the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Pickering's report was criticized by witnesses at this week's congressional oversight hearing about the administration's handling of the attacks.
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Polley's 'Stories': A Family Saga Strikingly Spun
Sarah Polley grew up the fifth of five children in a Canadian theatrical family. Her father, Michael, is a transplanted British actor; her mother, Diane, was an actress and casting director. No wonder Sarah feels her family's narrative has the stuff of drama."I'm interested in the way we tell stories about our lives," she says in the film, "about the fact that the truth about the past is often ephemeral and difficult to pin down."Prophetic words, those.But let's start from the film's...
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Celebrity Panda To Return To Thailand, For $1 Million A...
The citizens of Thailand are breathing a sigh of relief, after a breakthrough moment in panda relations was reached with China Friday.
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N.H.'s Film Office Takes Lead In Promoting Crowdfunding...
Crowdfunding is providing a new avenue of fundraising for New Hampshire’s independent filmmakers looking to make their projects a reality.The state’s film and television office has taken a lead role in helping to promote film projects based in the Granite State using the online model of raising money.It’s crunch time for Rae Dawn Chong.We’re at a café in downtown Portsmouth, and she’s talking about meeting her fundraising goal of $25,000.
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Judge Denies Administration's Request To Delay Plan-B...
The U.S.
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The "Quantum Internet" Explained...In Amateur...
A government lab announced earlier this month that it’s been operating a quantum internet at Los Alamos for the past two years. Which led us to wonder, um, WHAT IS A QUANTUM INTERNET???
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Sailor Reportedly Killed In Capsize Of America's Cup...
Update at 7:15 p.m. ET: Sailor Was 'Trapped Underneath Boat'On its website, Artemis Racing says Simpson, 36, "was trapped underneath the boat and despite attempts to revive him, by doctors afloat and subsequently ashore, his life was lost." Artemis says Simpson was part of an 11-member team aboard the boat and that all others have been accounted for.Update at 6:40 p.m.
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Bangladesh's Powerful Garment Sector Fends Off Regulation
Eight people died Wednesday in a fire at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. This follows the much deadlier collapse of the Rana Plaza building, where more than 900 people died.The deaths are taking place in a garment sector that has seen explosive growth over the past three decades. The country has managed to lure clothing-makers through a combination of low wages and light regulation.As a manufacturing center, Bangladesh has little to recommend it. The roads are poor. There's no port to speak...
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Could You Create Your Own Game In 36 Hours?
Create your own game in a day and a half. That's the challenge awaiting participants in this weekend's New Hampshire Game Jam in Manchester.Glenn Given and Michael Taylor are organizing the Jam; they sit down with All Things Considered host Brady Carlson to discuss how it works, the gaming scene in the region and what you can learn from trying to create your own games.
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Top U.S. Official Meets With Rebels Inside Syria
Ambassador Robert Ford, the State Department's point man on Syrian policy, crossed into northern Syria on Wednesday. The secret visit was confirmed by Syrian activists at the media office at the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkish frontier.Ford met with the head of the Aleppo military council, Abdul Jabbar Okaidi, who thanked him for the shipment of nonlethal aid. Seven trucks transported some 65,000 MREs, or meals ready to eat, the U.S. military's battlefield rations.
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Feds Reach Agreement With Montana School On Sexual...
The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with the University of Montana to resolve an investigation into the school's response to accusations of sexual harassment since 2009. The federal inquiry will continue to examine how Missoula city officials have handled such cases."The Justice Department started its investigation a year ago, following a string of reports of sexual assaults," reports NPR's Martin Kaste, for our Newscast Desk.
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Big Ag Agrees to Conserve Cropland, But At What Cost?
Taxpayers help subsidize crop insurance premiums for farmers to the tune of about $9 billion dollars, a figure that's growing each year. These policies protect farmers from major losses, and help support their income even if there's no loss of crops.And in return?
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Some Immigration Terms Are Going Out Of Newsroom Style
Journalists make choices all the time that influence our understanding of the news — the choice of what stories to cover, which people to interview, which words to use. And major news organizations have been reconsidering how best to describe a group of people whose very presence in this country breaks immigration law.News organizations as institutions often decide which terms to use in describing contentious subjects, then codify them in what are called stylebooks. They are subject to...
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Fiddleheads: Tasty Forest Secrets
Fiddleheads are the whimsical, tightly coiled spiral of fern sprouts that push their way up from under the layers of winter debris on the forest floor. They are also a regional and seasonal delicacy, and their season is incredibly short. In some Southern parts of the state, it may already be over. For any given fiddlehead patch, it can last as little as a week and a half.That means for those who harvest the sprouts, fiddlehead patches are closely guarded secrets.
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Pakistani Women Still Struggling For A Voice In Politics
Flags of the competing political parties whip in the wind of seaside Karachi. But little else is stirring in this city of 18 million this day.The MQM, a leading political party in the megacity, has shut Karachi down with a general strike in response to a deadly bombing at its election office.
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Immigration Reform Amendments Target Border Security
The Senate Judiciary Committee is plowing through dozens of amendments to its immigration overhaul reform plan. Many of Thursday's proposed changes are Republican attempts to have tighter controls on the border with Mexico. David Welna talks to Audie Cornish.
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Bond For Accused Cleveland Kidnapper Set At $8 Million
Just days ago, three women and a child escaped from a Cleveland house they'd been held in for years. On Thursday, accused kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro appeared in court. A judge set bond for Castro at $8 million.
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Samoans Await The Return Of The Tasty Turkey Tail
This is the tale of turkey tail — it's convoluted arrival, disappearance and highly anticipated return to the Pacific island the Republic of Samoa (not to be confused with American Samoa).It's hard to pinpoint precisely when turkey tails started being imported into Samoa from the U.S. and when they became a favorite, affordable dish.
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How Can Identical Twins Turn Out So Different?
A study of genetically identical mice is providing some hints about humans.
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Could You Talk To A Caveman? Researchers Say Yes!
In 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner came up with some basic theories of caveman linguistics in their 2,000-Year-Old Man skit. Most of them had to do with rocks, as in, "What are you doing with that rock there?"Now, a professor in England has questioned the validity of the famous caveman's rock-centric theories. And Mark Pagel of the University of Reading is reaching even further back, to the time of the 15,000-year-old man.Pagel and his team have theorized that if you trace a number of...
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At The Movies, A Swirl Of Style And Substance
Here's a movie pitch: A celebrated millionaire, known for public extravagance, lives right on the water in a fabulous mansion. He's smooth but reckless, drives like a maniac, has a powerful enemy and — despite a rep as a playboy — has only one girlfriend, who barely registers on-screen.You're the producer, so whaddya think?
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Mark Sanford Wins House Race
South Carolina's former governor has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the state's special election to fill a congressional seat.
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Study: 'Fossil' Words Are Older Than We Thought
The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world's contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group of U.K.-based scientists.The study, published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a statistical model to conclude that so-called "ultraconserved" words have been around for perhap
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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew Gets A New Signature
Back in January, when Jacob "Jack" Lew was a mere nominee for the position of Secretary of the Treasury, we fretted about his signature.
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Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops
According to a new survey of America's beekeepers, almost a third of the country's honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.That's been the case, in fact, almost every year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began this annual survey, six years ago.Over the past six years, on average, 30 percent of all the honeybee colonies in the U.S. died off over the winter. The worst year was five years ago.
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Congressional Hearings Put Renewed Focus On Benghazi...
It has been nearly eight months since attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.In March, President Obama nominated Deborah K. Jones, a career diplomat and Middle East expert, to succeed Stevens.
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Colorado Theater Shooting Suspect Will Enter Insanity...
In a court filing today, lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes said he intended to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.Holmes will enter the plea, the court filing says, during a hearing on May 13.Holmes is accused of opening fire in a crowded Aurora, Colo.
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Repeat Fires Put Maine Apartment Dwellers On Edge
Two hundred residents of the small city of Lewiston, Maine, are homeless after a series of dramatic fires downtown. On three different nights, neighbors have been awaked by smoke and flames as old wooden apartment buildings were engulfed. Susan Sharon reports a pair of arrests after the first two fires has done nothing to ease people's fears.
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Gov. Chris Christie Admits To Secret Weight Loss Surgery
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie confirmed on Tuesday that he secretly underwent weight loss surgery in February. Christie, who has struggled with his weight for 20 years, insists the decision was motivated by his family and not his political future.
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With Senate Approval, Delaware Poised To Allow Gay...
The Delaware Senate passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriages. Gov. Jack Markell said he would sign the bill, which means that the state is poised to become the 11th in the country to allow gay marriages.The vote comes less than a week after Rhode Island Gov.
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'Show Boat' Steams On, Eternally American
It's been more than eight decades since Show Boat -- the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put on by the Washington National Opera.Based on Edna Ferber's epic best-selling novel, Show Boat was nothing like the frothy musicals and scantily clad Broadway revues of its time.
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Are Those North Korean Long-Range Missiles For Real?
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Are We Laughing With Charles Ramsey?
It's hard out here for a black man the Internet accidentally thrusts into the limelight. Those 15 minutes ain't no joke.Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped Amanda Berry escape from her captor and free her fellow captives, is already a full-fledged Thing On The Internet, primarily owing to a live local television news interview.
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The Middle-School Dress-Code Blues
Junior high school can be an awkward, unsettling experience for anyone. Especially for teachers; imagine having survived it once, then witnesses cavorting teens finding their way over and over again. Jessica Lahey is an English, Latin, and Writing teacher at Crossroads Academy in Lyme, New Hampshire. She also writes about education and parenting for the New York Times and other publications, and on her blog, Coming of Age in the Middle. Her article, “A Dress-Code Enforcer’s Struggle for the...
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Matt Groening's Mother, Inspiration For Marge Simpson,...
"Margaret Groening died peacefully in her sleep on April 22, 2013, in Portland."That paid obituary, which ran Monday in The Oregonian, marked the life of the woman who served as the inspiration for one of the best-known characters on television and arguably pop culture: the beehive-coiffed Marge Simpson.Groening was 94.Her son, Matt Groening, created The Simpsons, a show for which he drew on characters from his own childhood.<a href="http://
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Both Sides In Sanford, Colbert Busch Race Hopeful In...
Updated at 9:29 pm ET --- Former South Carolina Republican governor Mark Sanford easily beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to regain the House seat he once held.For Sanford, the victory in the strongly Republican 1st Congressional District was sure to be widely viewed as a personal redemption.
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Singer Lauryn Hill Sentenced To Three Months For Tax...
Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill will spend three months in jail for failing to pay income tax on about $1.8 million in earnings.Hill, 37, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of tax evasion.
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FBI Says It Prevented Terrorist Attack In Rural Minnesota
The FBI says Monday it foiled a terrorist attack in a small Minnesota town, but officials offered few details.Buford Rogers, 24, made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, The Associated Press reports.
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Some Net Retailers Aren't Buying Online Sales Tax...
Congress is considering a bill that would allow states to collect sales taxes from online retailers. Proponents say a law is necessary to level the playing field with brick-and-mortar stores and to raise revenue for states.Simply put, the Marketplace Fairness Act would require any online retailer with more than $1 million in annual sales to collect and remit sales tax. But Joseph Henchman, a vice president at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, says it's not that simple. He says the bill, at...
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Stolen Dinosaur Heads Back To Mongolia
A 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton that was looted from Mongolia and smuggled into the U.S.
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Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention Chief Charged With...
The officer in charge of the sexual prevention and response branch for the Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery over the weekend.According to an Arlington (Va.) County Police Department incident report, Lt. Col.
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