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The sun is up, the polls are opening across the Golden State, and for political watchers one of the most interesting California primaries in modern times is finally here.
It¿s going to be a long day, especially for the political operatives who have pulled marathon days in support of both presidential candidates and ballot measure campaigns. [...]

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Another big blow was struck late last week against the embattled plan for tribal gambling in the desert city of Barstow, as federal officials rejected the land applications of two out-of-the area tribes.
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Opponents of adding gays and lesbians to federal hate crimes protections say they're not needed and punish free speech. Hogwash, says Clyde Wadsworth.

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Question: How COVID-19 Attacks The Brain And May Cause Lasting Damage

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Early in the pandemic, people with COVID-19 began reporting an odd symptom: the loss of smell and taste. The reason wasn't congestion. Somehow, the SARS-CoV-2 virus appeared to be affecting nerves that carry information from the nose to the brain. That worried neurologists. "We were afraid that SARS CoV-2 was going to invade the brain," says Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin, an investigator at the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Their fears proved well-founded — though the damage may come from the body and brain's response to the virus rather than the virus itself. Many patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury. These include "forgetfulness that impairs their ability to function," de Erausquin says. "They complain about trouble with organizing their tasks, and that entails things such as being able to prepare a meal." But COVID-19 also appears to produce many other brain-related symptoms ranging from seizures to psychosis, a team reports in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia. The team, which included de Erausquin, says severe COVID-19 may even increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. For many affected patients, brain function improves as they recover. But some are likely to face long-term disability, de Erausquin says. "Even if the proportion, the rate, is not very high, the absolute number of people who will suffer these consequences is likely to be high," he says, because so many people have been infected. Scientists are still trying to understand the many ways in which COVID-19 can damage the brain. It's been clear since early in the pandemic that the infection can lead to blood clots that may cause a stroke. Some patients also suffer brain damage when their lungs can no longer provide enough oxygen. To understand other, less obvious mechanisms, though, scientists needed brain tissue from patients with COVID-19 who died. And early in the pandemic they couldn't get that tissue, says Dr. Avindra Nath of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "Because it was such an infectious organism, people were not conducting autopsies at most places," Nath says. They simply lacked the protective gear that would allow them to remove a brain safely. That's changing, though, says Nath, who was part of a team that studied brain tissue from 19 COVID-19 patients. The team saw widespread evidence of inflammation and damage, they reported Dec. 30 in The New England Journal of Medicine. They also found a possible explanation for the damage. "What we found was that the very small blood vessels in the brain were leaking," Nath says. "And it wasn't evenly — you would find a small blood vessel here and a small blood vessel there." The injuries resembled those from a series of tiny strokes occurring in many different areas of the brain, Nath says. The finding may explain why COVID-19 patients have such a wide range of brain-related symptoms, Nath says, including some related to brain areas that control functions such as heart rate, breathing and blood pressure. "They complain of heart racing," he says, or that "when they stand up they get quite dizzy. Or they can have urinary problems." Still others report feeling extreme fatigue, which can also be caused by a brain injury. What's more, the inflammation and leaky blood vessels associated with all these symptoms may make a person's brain more vulnerable to another type of damage. "We know that those are important in Alzheimer's disease and we're seeing them play a key role here in COVID-19," says Heather Snyder, vice president of medical and scientific operations at the Alzheimer's Association. "And what that may mean in later life, we need to be asking that question now." So the association and researchers from more than 30 countries have formed a consortium to study the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the brain. The effort will enroll people who were hospitalized or who are already participating in international research studies of COVID-19. Findings from that research should help answer some important questions about what happens to COVID-19 patients after an infection, Snyder says. Researchers will assess patients' "behavior, their memory, their overall function" at six-month intervals, she says.

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Question: Interview: Fun and Finance with Dave Barry

You've read his columns. You've bought his books. But should you take his financial advice? David Gardner talks fun and finance with Pulitzer-winning columnist Dave Barry, author of Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like -- Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?

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Question: In Hard Times, The Tenacious 'Pursuit Of Happiness'

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Maira Kalman, author of the beloved children's picture books about Max Stravinsky, a dog with poetic aspirations and an existentialist's sense of the absurd, segued into similarly charming, quirky books for adults with her 2005 illustrated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. Her 2007 graphic diary, Principles of Uncertainty, which first ran in monthly installments in The New York Times' online edition, touted the benefits of "meaningful distraction" while repeatedly asking, "What is the point?" and calling up philosophers from Spinoza to Wittgenstein to help find answers. And the Pursuit of Happiness, Kalman's graphic diary of the year 2009, finds her in a more celebratory, optimistic mood as she heads down to Washington, D.C., for President Obama's inauguration -- an optimism that feels sadly beleaguered less than two years later. But Kalman, who emigrated with her Russian-Jewish parents to New York from Tel Aviv in 1954 at the age of 5, chooses to focus on the positive in her yearlong exploration of American history and government as they relate in particular to happiness. She opens with a hail of hallelujahs, "For arriving in Washington and feeling the excitement and happiness in the air ... For the hats in the Baptist Church," and most of all, "For Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence changing the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property to the Pursuit of Happiness. HAPPINESS!" Like Cole Porter, who famously juxtaposed the National Gallery, Garbo's salary and cellophane in "You're the Top," Kalman has a wonderful ability to combine high and low, serious and whimsical, delighting us with unexpected pairings while flagging a vast range of experiences to which we can relate. Her enthusiasms encompass not just the rare books reading room in the Library of Congress but the "stately, plump tassle" adorning its crimson curtains; Eleanor Roosevelt's courage and her "improbable yet wonderful hat"; bicameral legislature and the Capitol building's "bipartisan" marble floors, which "are polished to the point of ecstasy." She falls in love with Abraham Lincoln and marvels at the civility of a town meeting in Newfane, Vt. On meeting "petite and elegant" Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom she discovers shares her love of Matisse, she thinks, "move over Jane Austen as my imaginary best friend forever." She offers awestruck summaries of the achievements of Ben Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, noting of the latter, "If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello." Even when visiting a waste treatment plant and a district director of the Department of Homeland Security, adulation trumps criticism. But the Pentagon prompts her to wonder, "why does the building have to be as bland and soulless as a hospital? ... Would it kill them to have some style? Can't they borrow paintings from the Smithsonian? And I don't mean battle paintings. How about some Cezannes? I know they would be safe." It's hard not to be heartened by Kalman's tenacious pursuit of happiness, conveyed in irregularly capitalized handwritten text interspersed with photographs, sketches and cheerful, color-saturated gouache paintings that evoke Matisse, especially, in their predilection for vivid reds, pinks, greens and yellows. It all adds up to a refreshing, unorthodox, upbeat -- and most welcome -- tribute to America.

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Question: Memories Are Bright As 'Guiding Light' Dims

Host Scott Simon speaks to Jane Holahan, a long-time fan of the soap opera, Guiding Light.  It began as a radio show in 1937 and moved to television in 1952. It is the longest-running drama in TV and radio history. But CBS has canceled the show because of declining ratings. The final show will air on Friday, Sept. 18.  Holahan shares her memories of the show.

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Nearly 5 million Iraqi refugees have left their country. Some have headed to neighboring Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. A new report from the International Crisis Group, a nonpartisan research organization, charges that countries that are occupying Iraq, including the United States, must do more for the refugees.  Deborah Amos talks with Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Photo Shows Lander Sitting On A Comet; A Bounce-Landing. -- Congress Will Vote On Keystone XL Pipeline, With An Eye On Louisiana. And here are more early headlines: Obama Cautions Burma Against Slow Pace Of Reform. (BBC) India Arrests Doctor In Sterilization Deaths Of Several Women. (VOA) U.N. Official: Evidence To Hold North Korea Accountable For Abuses. (Guardian) "Hopelessness" For Millions Of Syrian Refugees. (Al Jazeera America) Mexican Protesters Burn Down State Congressional Building. (AFP) Report: U.S. Weather Satellites Hacked, Allegedly By China. (Washington Post) U.S. College Costs Jump 3.7 This Year. (Bloomberg) Government Proposes Rules For Prepaid Card Industry. (Los Angeles Times)


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Jobless claims hit 6.6 million in today's report, doubling the grim milestone reached last week. The numbers are released weekly by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Israeli soldiers storm two synagogues occupied by protesters as Israel continues with its pullout of settlers from Gaza. Israeli troops raided the main synagogue in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, removing about 1,500 protesters inside.  They were carried outside to waiting buses.   Nearby, police broke open the door of the synagogue at Kfar Darom -- also occupied by protesters. Overall, Israeli authorities say, the withdrawal is proceeding ahead of schedule.

Good morning - here are some of the leading headlines we're following today: 'Picture Perfect Launch' For Private Rocket Headed To Space Station. Deal Reached On Probe Of Iran's Nuclear Program, IAEA Chief Says. Memorial Walk, Moment Of Silence Planned For Joplin On First Anniversary Of Devastating Tornado. (Joplin Globe) Jurors In John Edwards Corruption Trial Begin Third Day Of Deliberations. (Reuters) Images Show North Korea Conducts Unknown Activity At Nuclear Test Site. (CNN) Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Will Address U.N. Labor Conference Next Month In Switzerland. (AP) 2 Protesters Die In Lebanon At Funeral Of Murdered Anti-Syrian Cleric; 5 Killed In Syrian Bombing. (VOA) Four Perish Climbing Everest, One Missing While Dozens More Continue Toward Summit (ABC) Oklahoma City Defeats Los Angeles To Reach NBA Western Conference Finals; 8 Wounded In Oklahoma City Violence After Victory. (Oklahoman) Man Survives Suicide Attempt After Leaping Into Niagara Falls. (USA Today)


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The new Republican-led House will lead a movement to ban earmarks in the next Congress. But while projects like Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" have given earmarks a bad rap, some earmarks fill a vital need. Case in point? The $400,000 earmark that funds the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization, which helps connect military service members and their families with private-practice physicians. That's necessary because Fort Drum, in upstate New York, is the only Army base in the country without its own hospital. And Fort  Drum has seen a lot of action this decade: Thousands more soldiers, tons of new construction -- all to support constant rotations in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Denise Young, who runs the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization, says that because there's no hospital, the community health care system had to step up. "When a soldier gets deployed, he deserves to know that his family here in our community is going to be taken care of," Young says. "They are serving us, and we need to serve them." Five years ago, an earmark from then-congressman, now-Secretary of the Army John McHugh (R-NY) created Young's organization to become the glue between the military and civilian health care worlds. This is a novelty for many military families -- a positive one, says Stephanie Burke, whose family moved to Fort  Drum last spring.  At military hospitals on other bases, she says, her medical records were lost. She says assigned doctors didn't know her children's names or histories.  At Fort Drum, she says, it's better. "My husband, first thing when he in-processed, he called me on his cell phone and he said, 'Wait, you get civilian doctors, you get to go off post, you get to choose who you want to go to.' And so you're very excited about that," Burke says. The Health Planning Organization is also working on a military-wide problem: a shortage of mental health clinics to deal with PTSD and the effects of multiple deployments on families.  It has helped triple the number of mental health providers in the region.  But that is still barely keeping up. Retired soldier Jim Sheets is studying to be a social worker in a program brought here by the Health Planning Organization. He says half the students want to become mental health counselors. "You're going to have 20 people ... right back in this area providing services," Sheets says. The Health Planning Organization also has grants to digitize medical records, recruit doctors, and run fiber-optic cable between the region's five hospitals. Director Denise Young says a $400,000 per year earmark has leveraged $100 million in projects. "The earmark is the catalyst to bring all of these resources to bear in this region to improve the health care system," Young says. You could argue that all these changes around Fort Drum would have happened without the earmark.  Dr. Steven Lyndaker at Lewis  County General  Hospital disagrees.  He says someone needed to bring big institutions like hospitals and the Army together. "We wouldn't be talking about this, quite honestly, if Denise Young didn't write a grant proposal," he says. Across the country, rural areas suffer from a shortage of doctors, especially specialists.  Rep. Bill Owens, a Democrat, will be the one defending the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization earmark in the next Congress.  He says it has helped this region try to buck that trend. "When you do this," Owens says, "you improve the health care for both the military community and the civilian community." Young says her organization transcends politics. It takes care of the people who fight for our country. And she says she's "absolutely confident" it will survive the battle over earmarks. JACKI LYDEN, host:  The Republicans who take control of the House on Wednesday say they'll try to ban earmarks. But for every bridge to nowhere, there is an earmark that is filling a need. Fort Drum in Upstate New York is the only army base in the country without its own hospital. Soldiers and their families rely on civilian doctors and clinics.  David Sommerstein of North Country Public Radio recently visited the organization that helps find that care, an organization created by an earmark.  DAVID SOMMERSTEIN: Denise Young looks out her office window and grins. It overlooks Watertown's Public Square, the hub of Fort Drum's host city. And there's a fresh foot of snow.  Ms. DENISE YOUNG (Executive Director, Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization): As you can see right now, it's all lit up for Christmas and it's beautiful. We really feel like we're at the heart of the action that's happening in the Fort Drum region just by being here.  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Question: Fat Tuesday, California Style

The sun is up, the polls are opening across the Golden State, and for political watchers one of the most interesting California primaries in modern times is finally here.
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Question: Brian Eno: Improvising Within The Rules

When Brian Eno works his musical magic, his presence is unmistakable. You may not know of his long solo career or remember his flamboyant debut as the synthesizer stylist in the early days of Roxy Music. But if you're a rock fan, you've certainly heard his studio wizardry as one of pop music's most sought-after producers. Movie soundtracks have long interested Eno; early in his solo career, he released an album called Music for Film. He calls the pieces on his new CD, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, "the mirror-image of silent movies -- sound-only movies." Eno's last scoring project was for The Lovely Bones; he co-produced the music with two other esteemed film composers, Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. When they finished, a great amount of music remained unused, inspiring the idea for a separate full album. "We decided to try to work on it as we had been working anyway together, which is to improvise together and then select parts of the improvisation and work on those," Eno says. "Only five of the pieces on here were related to The Lovely Bones. The rest are fantasy pieces, entirely separate." Improvising Within A Structure A communal white board acted as the gathering place for the composers' ideas. Eno says he insisted on improvising within a structure. "People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually," Eno says. "I wanted to set up a way to get people to shut up sometimes, because a big problem with improvisation is that everyone plays all the time unless told not to." The composer mentions an old friend of his, Berlin-born artist Peter Schmidt, who died in 1980. The two had similar personalities, both interested in the rules, structures and thoughts involved in making their best work. Each kept a separate list of the rules that applied to them. Eno still uses his list, sharing one of many rules: "Honor thy error as a hidden intention." "It was a sort of a commandment that I would take into the recording studio," Eno says. "So when something went wrong, instead of saying 'Do that again,' I'd say, 'Let's listen to it. Maybe there's something there that I didn't intend, but which may be better than I did intend.' " For Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Eno returned to his rules. "I used them fairly often, really," he says. "I find that for improvisations, if each player takes one of those cards and keep them to themselves, don't tell anyone what rule they're operating under, that can produce some really interesting results." LIANE HANSEN, Host:  When Brian Eno works his musical magic, his presence is unmistakable. You may not know of his long solo career or remember his flamboyant debut as the synthesizer stylist in the early days of Roxy Music, but if you're a rock fan, you've certainly heard his studio wizardry as one of pop music's most sought-after producers. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG "ONCE IN A LIFETIME") TALKING HEADS: (Singing) You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack... HANSEN: Maybe you remember the shimmering electronics flowing through this song by Talking Heads or the aural sheen that graced U2's "The Joshua Tree" that Eno co-produced with Daniel Lanois. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME") BONO: (Singing) I go there with you, it's all I can do. HANSEN: Maybe you recall some of the musical soundscapes behind "The Lovely Bones" when that movie came out last year. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "THE LOVELY BONES") M: (as Susie Salmon) We weren't those people, those unlucky people to whom bad things happened for no reason. HANSEN: Film soundtracks have long interested Brian Eno. Early on in his solo career, he released an album called "Music for Film" and about the pieces on his new CD, "Small Craft on a Milk Sea," Eno calls them the mirror image of silent movies - sound-only movies. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) HANSEN: Brian Eno joins us from his studio in London. Brian, it's almost been 20 years since we've had a chance to have a conversation. It's nice to speak to you again. M: Gosh, is it really that long? HANSEN: I'm afraid so, sir, I'm afraid so. But it all went by in a flash, did it not? M: Yes, completely. Seems like only yesterday. HANSEN: It seems like only yesterday. Yeah, we were talking about the record you did with John Cale, "Wrong Way Up." This CD, "Small Craft on a Milk Sea," this features collaborators John Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. Was the music related to the work you did together for "The Lovely Bones"? M: In fact, only five of the pieces on here were related to "Lovely Bones." The rest are sort of fantasy pieces, if you like, entirely separate. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) HANSEN: John Hopkins said this really was random. You had a process involving a whiteboard where you had written a chord and the number of bars they should stay on that chord, and point to the chords at random. M: So, there are lots and lots of ways of approaching both of these issues. One of them is sort of by role playing, by saying, let's imagine a kind of music tha

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Question: Judicial Nominations/ABA Role

Guests: Martha Barnett <LEM>President, American Bar Association</LEM>   Jonathan Ringel <LEM>Reporter, American Lawyer Media</LEM>   Eugene Meyer <LEM>Executive Director of the Federalist Society</LEM>   Steve Burbank <LEM>Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania</LEM>  <LEM>Former Member, National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal</LEM>   The Bush Administration recently told the American Bar Association it was reconsidering the role of the ABA in selecting Supreme Court and federal judges to the bench. For decades, the ABA has been used to screen judicial candidates, but now the White House is questioning why they have a preferential role. Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at how judges get assigned to the bench and the role of the American Bar Association.

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Lee Fang, formerly a blogger who covered lobbying and conservative  movements with ThinkProgress.org, is an investigative reporter. This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.  If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of "virtual schools"—charters operated online, with teachers instructing students over the Internet—as well as one of the first to use vouchers to channel taxpayer money to charter schools run by for-profits. But as recently as last year, the radical change envisioned by school reformers still seemed far off, even there. With some of the movement's cherished ideas on the table, Florida Republicans, once known for championing extreme education laws, seemed to recoil from the fight. SB 2262, a bill to allow the creation of private virtual charters, vastly expanding the Florida Virtual School program, languished and died in committee. Charlie Crist, then the Republican governor, vetoed a bill to eliminate teacher tenure. The move, seen as a political offering to the teachers unions, disheartened privatization reform advocates. At one point, the GOP's budget proposal even suggested a cut for state aid going to virtual school programs. Lamenting this series of defeats, Patricia Levesque, a top adviser to former Governor Jeb Bush, spoke to fellow reformers at a retreat in October 2010. Levesque noted that reform efforts had failed because the opposition had time to organize. Next year, Levesque advised, reformers should "spread" the unions thin "by playing offense" with decoy legislation. Levesque said she planned to sponsor a series of statewide reforms, like allowing taxpayer dollars to go to religious schools by overturning the so-called Blaine Amendment, "even if it doesn't pass...to keep them busy on that front." She also advised paycheck protection, a unionbusting scheme, as well as a state-provided insurance program to encourage teachers to leave the union and a transparency law to force teachers unions to show additional information to the public. Needling the labor unions with all these bills, Levesque said, allows certain charter bills to fly "under the radar." If Levesque's blunt advice sounds like that of a veteran lobbyist, that's because she is one. Levesque runs a Tallahassee-based firm called Meridian Strategies LLC, which lobbies on behalf of a number of education-technology companies. She is a leader of a coalition of government officials, academics and virtual school sector companies pushing new education laws that could benefit them. But Levesque wasn't delivering her hardball advice to her lobbying clients. She was giving it to a group of education philanthropists at a conference sponsored by notable charities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Indeed, Levesque serves at the helm of two education charities, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a national organization, and the Foundation for Florida's Future, a state-specific nonprofit, both of which are chaired by Jeb Bush. A press release from her national group says that it fights to "advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment." Despite the clear conflict of interest between her lobbying clients and her philanthropic goals, Levesque and her team have led a quiet but astonishing national transformation. Lobbyists like Levesque have made 2011 the year of virtual education reform, at last achieving sweeping legislative success by combining the financial firepower of their corporate clients with the seeming legitimacy of privatization-minded school-reform think tanks and foundations. Thanks to this synergistic pairing, policies designed to boost the bottom lines of education-technology companies are cast as mere attempts to improve education through technological enhancements, prompting little public debate or opposition. In addition to Florida, twelve states have expanded virtual school programs or online course requirements this year. This legislative juggernaut has coincided with a gold rush of investors clamoring to get a piece of the K-12 education market. It's big business, and getting bigger: One study estimated that revenues from the K-12 online learning industry will grow by 43 percent between 2010 and 2015, with revenues reaching $24.4 billion. In Florida, only fourteen months after Crist handed a major victory to teachers unions, a new governor, Rick Scott, signed a radical bill that could have the effect of replacing hundreds of teachers with computer avatars. Scott, a favorite of the Tea Party, appointed Levesque as one of his education advisers. His education law expanded the Florida  Virtual School to grades K-5, authorized the spending of public funds on new for-profit virtual schools and created a requirement that all high school s

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Oakland, Calif., becomes the first school district in the country to hire a diabetes nurse. That district, like many nationwide, has seen an increase in Type 2 diabetes among students. Kris Rebillot reports.

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More middle-class Americans are getting snared in a costly parallel tax system called the Alternative Minimum Tax. Under the AMT, taxpayers owe more in taxes, often significantly more, than they would under the regular rules. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

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And auto-related  layoffs rose, as some companies have shut down or slowed production due to parts  shortages stemming from the earthquake in Japan."  Also this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that productivity rose at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first quarter. And, General Motors said it earned $3.2 billion in the first quarter.']" and the positive "['represent this short title to find a subtitle that might be right below it on npr\n\n------\n\nFewshots:\n\'A Scientist Homes In On Our Sense Of Direction\' == \'In the modern world, those of us with iPhones or in-car GPS units can locate our positions on the planet easily and accurately. Yet without electronic assistance, as behavioral psychologist Colin Ellard demonstrates in his new book, You Are Here, contemporary Westerners consistently find themselves disoriented and lost. For human beings, navigation and wayfinding have very nearly become lost arts, practiced primarily by remote indigenous peoples for whom an inaccurate turn can prove fatal. For all our geographical cluelessness, though, humans maintain a profound connection to the three-dimensional spaces their bodies inhabit.  In human psychology, You Are Here argues, simple geometry rules. We are highly attuned to the shapes of our environments, seeking out spaciousness, for example, because it provides us with a wide-angle view of potential threats to our safety. A room\'s geometric symmetry instinctively weighs heavily on our choices of where to situate ourselves within it.   Indeed, Ellard cites a study at the Tate Gallery in London that demonstrates that it doesn\'t matter where specific paintings are placed in a given exhibition; people gravitate to the same locations in the gallery. By alternating between descriptions of experiments and entertaining re-creations of real-world examples, Ellard walks readers through those mental glitches and quirks that make modern human navigation such a dicey enterprise. In a way, he lays bare the algorithms your brain follows — predictably and rationally, the reader discovers — in order to determine your body\'s location. Experience and experiment demonstrate that there is an overtly scientific method behind the madness of disorientation. To illustrate, Ellard brings readers into windowless rooms and laboratory labyrinths, then out to Middle Eastern deserts and Arctic ice sheets.  Along the way, he explains how, using traditional navigational techniques, Bedouin nomads and the Inuit manage to stay "found" in their barren, relatively featureless environments. We may never learn how to pinpoint our locations based on the careful analysis of camel dung, as the Bedouins do, but with a little less iPhone and a little more attention to detail, we can reach a better understanding of where "here" actually is — be it on the beach in Micronesia, amid a gaping fjord in Norway, or even aboard a Heathrow-bound 767 streaking over Newfoundland in the middle of the night.  Ellard\'s enthusiasm for his subject enlivens each chapter of his book, making even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.  In any room, in any hemisphere, camper, climber and carpooler alike will find plenty to delight them in You Are Here. Finding Our Way Through Buildings When Bob Propst invented the Action Office concept in 1965, he unwittingly (and much to his later horror) helped to set in motion developments in the organization of workspaces that would culminate in an epidemic of unhappy and unhealthy office workers trapped in stultifying beehives of cubicles. Propst\'s invention of the Action Office, a modular design system in which "panels" could be matched with function and combined like so many building blocks to produce a highly functional workspace, was meant to begin a revolution in office design. Propst\'s aim was to bring the design of workspaces into closer accord with what he saw as revolutionary changes that were taking place in the world of work during the 1960s. For one thing, workers were being required to deal with huge amounts of information necessitating complicated workflow and communication requirements like nothing that had been seen before. 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The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season In The Kitchen At Ferran Adria's elBulli , by Lisa Abend, hardcover, 304 pages, Free Press, list price: $26 My Korean Deli: Risking It All For A Convenience Store, by Ben Ryder Howe, hardcover, 320 pages, Henry Holt and Co., list price: $25 Ex Libris: The Art Of Bookplates, by Kevin Wilson, paperback, 112 pages, Yale University Press, list price: $15 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano, hardcover, 288 pages, Pamela Dorman Books, list price: $25.95 Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr, paperback, 230 pages, Akashic Books, list price: $15.95 My American Unhappiness, by Dean Bakopoulos, paperback, 288 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price: $24 Recommended by Rona Brinlee, The BookMark You Know When The Men Are Gone, by Siobhan Fallon, hardcover, 227 pages, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, list price: $23.95 22 Britannia Road, by Amanda Hodgkinson, hardcover, 336 pages, Pamela Dorman Books, list price: $26.95 World Without Fish, by Mark Kurlansky, illustrated by Frank Stockton, hardcover, 192 pages, Workman Publishing Company, list price: $16.95 Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell, hardcover, 320 pages, Knopf, list price: $24.95 The Poison Tree, by Erin Kelly, hardcover, 336 pages, Pamela Dorman Books, list price: $26.95  Books Preview: Spotting Summer's High FliersRecommended by Rachel Syme State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett, hardcover, 353 pages, Harper, list price: $26.99 Demon Fish: Travels Through The Hidden World of Sharks, by Juliet Eilperin, hardcover, 320 pages, Pantheon, list price: $26.95 Before I Go To Sleep, by S.J. 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Guests discuss the growing political turmoil in Pakistan following the death of opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. There is growing concern that the country's volatility could foster the growth of al-Qaida and the Taliban in the region. Guests: Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know; senior fellow at the New America Foundation Sajjan Gohel, director for International Security at the Asia-Pacific Foundation Mike Nizza, reporter for The New York Times NEAL CONAN, host:  This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.  President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan blames the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on al-Qaida and its allies. The president himself narrowly escaped two assassination plots a few years ago, also said to be the work of al-Qaida. And the Osama bin Laden group is also the main suspect in a recent series of suicide bombs targeted on the Pakistani military.  At the same time, al-Qaida and the Taliban have established training and logistical facilities in Pakistan to support their stepped-up work in Afghanistan. Bin Laden and his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are widely reported to leave and operate a reconstituted al-Qaida in Pakistan.  Our main focus today is Pakistan, al-Qaida and the Taliban. We'll also talk about two Facebook pages of Benazir Bhutto's son, one a hoax. And later in the hour, Marc Fisher of the Washington Post and Cary Sherman of the RIAA on the allegation that you might get yourself sued if you transfer a CD you bought to your computer or to your iPod.  But first, if you want to know more about Pakistan, al-Qaida and the Taliban, our number is 800-989-8255. E-mail us talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our blog, that's at npr.org/blogofthenation.  We begin with Peter Bergen, senior fellow at The New America Foundation who has written two books on al-Qaida and joins us by phone from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.  And Peter, thanks for staying up to join us today.  Mr. PETER BERGEN (Senior Fellow, The New America Foundation; Author, "Holy War, Inc.," "The Osama bin Laden I Know"): No problem.  CONAN: There are many in Pakistan who believe the government was either complicit or negligent in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto a week ago today. How credible is President Musharraf's statement that puts the blame on terrorists associated with al-Qaida?  Mr. BERGEN: Well, Neal, I think, you know, Occam's razor is recently employed here in the sense that who had the most to gain. Musharraf has already won at least popular politicians in Pakistan and his popularity something he hasn't benefited from this assassination attempt. Also, the senior levels of the military have no interest in instability in the country and clearly, this brought the instability to the country.  On the other hand, Taliban and al-Qaida are allies, you know, have long opposed Benazir Bhutto, somebody that they've targeted in the past. There was also - you probably know, Neal, a recording of Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban leader in Pakistan in which he pays - he takes credit for the bombing, he clearly had some knowledge of it. The transcript was released and the audiotape was released and is actually out on a Pakistani government Web site for those who might be interested.  And, you know, who quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's very probably a duck. Of course, it's very convenient for the government that so quickly somebody was identified as the perpetrator. As to the question of their negligence, I mean, I think rather than their complicity, that's a much fairer assessment. I mean, clearly, the Pakistan Peoples Party was asking for the government for better security, people within the party saying that they wanted some sort of international security firm, but were blocked by the interior ministry from getting permission for that.  And if you look at those videotapes, Neal, taken of the attack, it's pretty obvious that the security around her was not professional. In a similar kind of assassination attempt against this American political figure, as soon as the first gunshot went off, there would be people moving towards the gunman; instead, everybody's moving away or ducking.  CONAN: Yet, the government issued numbers today suggesting there were a thousand policemen ordered and raising the question that, hey, you know, who told her to stand up in the vehicle. Everybody else who stayed inside was okay.  Mr. BERGEN: Well, you know, I think that's a little bit of blaming the victim. The, you know, that's still a controversy by how exactly she died. I've looked at the medical report, as well as those videotapes. And actually, the government position that she died falling and then she hit her head on the sun lever, I think is actually born out by the medical report. There's no exit wound noted in the medical report. There's also - no fragments of bullets were found.  Now, the medical report is not an autopsy which has yet to be f

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As the star of The Bachelor: Paris, Travis Stork has a lot of experience with meeting and dating different types of women. As an emergency room doctor, Stork has a lot of experience helping patients cope with trauma, depression, accidents, and other ailments. In Don't Be That Girl: A Guide to Finding the Confident, Rational Girl Within, Stork combines his personal and professional expertise to help women get over low self-esteem and recognize the qualities in themselves that make them attractive to men. A must-read for those who fell for Dr. Stork's down-to-earth charm and irresistible bedside manner, Don't Be That Girl: A Guide to Finding the Confident, Rational Girl Within is a book that helps readers get past self-defeating behavior and find their own fairy-tale ending.

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A landmark series of 22 reports examining California's educational system was released this week. The two year, $3 million project, called "Getting Down to Facts," was commissioned by the governor, legislative leaders and the state education department. Many teachers and principals say the reports confirm what they've known all along: Schools with poor and minority students need more money. Educators at one struggling middle school in San Diego say that if it was up to them, they would spend all their money hiring more teachers to meet the needs of their diverse student population.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a number of Greek incumbents in parliament became the latest victims of growing frustration among voters across Europe over the ongoing debt crisis and widespread austerity measures. President-elect Francois Hollande has promised France a "fresh start."

Good morning, here are our early stories: After Chávez: His 'Revolution' Is Likely To Continue. Storm Brings Season's Heaviest Snowfall To Midwest, Mid-Atlantic. And here are more early headlines: Brennan's CIA Nomination On 'Fast Track'; Vote May Come As Early As Thursday. (AP) Finally! Last Cardinal Expected Soon At Vatican To Help Choose New Pope. (CNN) Could Dow's New Record Prompt More Spending By Wealthy? (Marketwatch) European Union Fines Microsoft For Denying Consumers Web Browser Choice. (Reuters) After Two Years Of Fighting, Syria Has 1 Million Refugees. (Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles City Councilman, Controller, Headed For Mayoral Runoff. (KPCC) Czech Central Bank, Commercial Banks, Under Attack By Hackers. (Reuters) Did The Duchess Of Cambridge Drop A Hint About Her Baby's Gender? (People)


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Thanks to the economy, today we are all Nigerian e-mail scammers; A certain Senator learns never to cross David Letterman; Clay Aiken shocks the world … well, not really.

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Jo Sullivan Loesser met Broadway composer Frank Loesser when she was cast in his show The Most Happy Fella. The two later married and Jo Sullivan Loesser left show business for 17 years to raise their two children and help her husband with his writing. Since her husband's death in 1969, Jo Sullivan Loesser has worked to preserve and promote his work, through shows, performances and recordings. Jo Sullivan Loesser tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that her husband emphasized lyrics over melody in his work. She says that working with Frank Loesser as a singer could be very demanding — he once quarreled with Frank Sinatra because he disliked Sinatra's performance in the film version of Guys and Dolls.  This interview originally aired March 20, 2006.

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Question: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me

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I remember back during the 1997-98 school year when we were all stunned by five school shootings within a period of eight months in places few Americans had heard of: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., Jonesboro, Ark., Edinboro, Penn., and Springfield, Ore. Then there was Columbine the following year, April 20, 1999, at a high school in Littleton, Colo. It became a pivotal event that started a national debate about school security, police tactics in response to a shooting and the shooters themselves — their psychological state, their upbringing, their families and of course, their access to guns. There was even talk about creating a government agency that would deal with school shootings the same way FEMA responds to natural disasters. After Columbine, President Bill Clinton convened a "youth violence summit" and commissioned a study by the surgeon general to look at the role of pop culture, violent video games and what the administration called "the roots of youthful angst and alienation." Missing from the agenda: A serious discussion about kids' access to guns. Ironically, right around that time, the Centers for Disease Control reported that school shootings actually accounted for less than one percent of all the gun-related deaths of young people under 19 years of age. According to the CDC, school-age children at the time were 40 times more likely to be killed outside school than at school. The age of zero tolerance Still, not long after Columbine, school districts across the country rushed to adopt "zero tolerance policies" which were devised in the mid-1990s to deal with kids accused of drugs, weapons possession and making threats. But they did little for troubled, depressed, angry students in need of help. Instead, zero tolerance veered off into a discussion about how blacks, Latinos, and kids with disabilities were disproportionately punished, not just for drugs or guns but for violating school codes of conduct and dress. In other words, zero tolerance policies did little to help schools, law enforcement, and mental health experts identify deeply troubled students who are out there, like ticking time bombs. All that these policies did was create the illusion of school safety. The public, of course, has demanded tougher school safety policies; more armed school cops, anonymous telephone tip lines, more metal detectors, TV cameras and costly high tech surveillance gadgets, leaving little or no money for school psychologists and counselors who today are far outnumbered by school cops. Safety drills or "lock-downs" have become routine requiring teachers to turn off the lights, lock their doors, push kids down on the floor, under their desks, away from windows. By 2016, nearly every school in America had created a plan for responding to a school shooting.  Punishment as a deterrent If strengthening school security and preparedness didn't deter a potential school shooter, maybe the death penalty for the shooters would send a message. That was what people wanted for Michael Carneal, the 14-year-old who in December of 1997 killed three fellow students and wounded five others — all members of a student prayer group at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. Carneal was a B student. His father was a lawyer, his sister, class valedictorian. Carneal got 25 years without parole. In many of the school shooting cases that followed, the death penalty was never enacted — though many advocates argued for it. Florida prosecutors will decide soon whether or not they plan to pursue the death penalty in the case of the most recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The federal response  Over the years, the federal government's response to school shootings has been well-intentioned but not very reassuring to school officials. One move that stands out: In the summer of 2002, the U.S. Education Department released a "threat assessment guide" to help identify would-be school shooters. It provided schools a profile of potential shooters and offered recommendations for countering an intruder who arrived at school with a weapon. Among its findings: Students who are prone to violence tend not to make explicit threats but do communicate their intent for harm to other students. They often keep adults out of the loop.  The guide was controversial because it was based on a five-year study by the U.S. Secret Service that profiled assassins, people who carried out lethal attacks on prominent public figures. In a previous study of 18 school shootings, the FBI found the shooters to fit the following profile: "male, Caucasian, middle class, lonely, alienated, socially awkward kids with access to guns at home." Personality traits included: poor coping skills, depression, narcissism, obsessed with violence. Jolted back to reality Fast forward to December 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Conn. That day, Adam Lanza, a former student at the school, killed his mother then shot and killed 20 children, the principal, the school psycholog

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Back in Studio 4-A with Kronos. Over the past 25 years, more than 400 works have been written or arranged for Kronos, and the ensemble has travelled literally all over the globe to collaborate with composers. They'll continue their session with a piece called Long-Ge, a wedding piece by New Zealand composer Jack Body. Next, Kronos plays an arrangement of a piece by Alfred Schnittke called "Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief," music which also includes layers of taped material that is integrated into the live performance. Then it's on to another piece that uses tape playback. We'll hear Kronos perform two selections of the Book of Alleged Dances by John Adams:"Hammer and Chisel" and "Rag the Bone." And the members of Kronos will wrap up with a Tango composed for them by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla called "Four, for Tango." (NPR)

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Question: Q & A: Behind the CIA Leak Case

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The investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA agent has led to the jailing of one reporter for 85 days and grand jury testimony for some of the White House's most trusted aides. Media correspondent David Folkenflik offers background on the case's impact on the Bush administration and the media. This case is hard to follow. How did it start? On July 6, 2003, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson wrote an op-ed column for The New York Times saying the Bush administration exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in justifying the invasion of Iraq. Wilson wrote that the CIA had sent him to Niger. Vice President Dick Cheney wanted hard evidence the Iraqis bought uranium "yellowcake" from Niger for the production of weapons of mass destruction. But Wilson wrote that "it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place." On July 14, 2003, syndicated columnist Robert Novak wrote that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative working on weapons of mass destruction. Novak, citing "two senior administration officials," wrote that Plame suggested her husband for the mission to Niger. Novak is a well-known conservative commentator; Wilson and many Democrats viewed the column as political payback for Wilson's public criticism of the administration.  Why is there a federal investigation? Democrats and some newspaper editorials charged that the leak violated a federal law that prohibits identifying undercover agents. Such early speculation focused on the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and the president's top political adviser, Karl Rove, who is now the deputy White House chief of staff.  Rove had been a campaign consultant for John Ashcroft's Senate campaigns. As U.S. attorney general, Ashcroft ultimately named U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago to lead an investigation as a special prosecutor. Fitzgerald has been subpoenaing many Washington insiders, including journalists, who may know something about the leak.  Why are journalists in trouble over this? Not all of them are. Fitzgerald called them to testify as witnesses. And several did just that, with the understanding that the prosecutors' questioning would be limited. But two prominent reporters, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times, initially refused to testify before the grand jury convened by Fitzgerald.  With colleagues, Cooper wrote a story for Time about the apparent strategy of the White House to discredit Wilson -- or possibly punish him -- by revealing his wife's job and involvement in his mission to Niger. Cooper agreed to testify the day he was to be sent to jail after a source, now confirmed to be Rove, released him from his confidentiality agreement. Miller stayed mum and went to jail -- although she never wrote any stories on the subject. After serving 85 days in a Virginia detention center, Miller agreed to testify as well. She said she was personally assured by her source that he wanted her to testify. That source was Libby -- the vice president's top aide.  Are journalists allowed to keep their sources secret? Yes and no. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have some sort of so-called shield laws, but no such federal statute exists. And this case involves a federal law and a federal grand jury. Justice Department guidelines say that prosecutors should pursue information from journalists only when other leads have been exhausted. But in a 1972 case involving a reporter who witnessed the production of narcotics, the Supreme Court held that there is no federal privilege for reporters to protect their sources. In this case, a federal appellate court ruled against Cooper and Miller -- and the Supreme Court declined to review the decision.  What do we know about Karl Rove's role in this? Rove has testified several times before the grand jury. His lawyer has said recently that Fitzgerald told him he has not decided whether to charge Rove with any crime -- and that, so far, Rove is not a so-called "target" of Fitzgerald's investigation. But lawyers for both Cooper and Rove now confirm the two spoke about Plame during the period the leak occurred.  Was any federal law broken? This is unclear. Some former prosecutors say the federal law that addresses the disclosure of covert U.S. intelligence officials is very narrowly written and may not apply easily to cases like this. It was passed in 1982 after a rogue former CIA official deliberately released the names of scores of undercover agents. To successfully bring a case, prosecutors would have to be able to determine precisely what the leaker said, what he intended to say, and whether he was revealing secret information or repeating information that was already widely known.  It should be noted that this is a very unusual case in which the very act of passing along the information may have constituted a crime. Fitzgerald argues in court papers that that means the only possible witnesses to the crime would be th

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Question: Adam Green, at 'Sixes & Sevens'

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Before breaking off to pursue a solo career in 2002, singer-songwriter Adam Green was, with Kimya Dawson, part of the New York-based folk group The Moldy Peaches — a band that Ellen Page, star of the Oscar-winning movie Juno thought her character seemed likely be a fan of.  In response, Green and Dawson reunited to record the hit "Anyone Else But You" for the film's soundtrack — which was for a time the No. 1 album in America.  Now Green has released Sixes & Sevens, his fifth solo album. Fresh Air's rock critic has a review.

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Question: No, Brett, For The Love Of Football, NO!

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Dear Brett Favre,Signing with the Vikings after your second retirement, from the Jets? What the heck is wrong with you?! I thought we'd been through this already! Since you clearly missed my last missive to you on this account, let me refresh your memory:  Let me put it to you this way: As a kid, I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. I had Michael Jordan t-shirts, Michael Jordan books, and even got to see him play versus the Washington Bullets (it was amazing -- he had a perfect, length-of-the-court breakaway slam dunk that I'll never forget, though it was just another day at the office for Air Jordan!). When he retired, I mourned. But when he came back (I don't count his baseball year -- I mean in 2001) -- to Washington, no less? I despaired. Comebacks are rarely pretty. And Brett, if MJ can't do it, neither can you.  See that last bit? "Neither can you?" Do you doubt me? How did it work out for ya in New York (Jersey)?Listen, Brett, I'm being nice! If you need some tough love, turn to Pete Prisco at CBS Sports to get compared to a cockroach and a pimple. Or maybe head over to Gary Myers' take for the New York Daily News --  I'm tired of Favre's act. In a way, I also feel sorry for him, not that he needs anybody's pity as he's about to make a reported $10 million-$12 million. He just can't let go of football and get on with his life. He can't find anything else that excites him. You can only ride the lawnmower on the ranch so long, I guess.  It's probably too late for you to call out "April (August) fools!" but boy do I wish this was a prank.No really, I mean it this time, NO MORE UNRETIREMENTS,Sarah

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Question: Dessa's New Song Defines 'Good Grief' As Pain That Fades

A singer, rapper, poet, author, speaker and all-around mogul, Dessa can be forgiven for waiting three-plus years (and counting) to follow 2014's excellent Parts of Speech. After all, she's hardly receded from the spotlight: Her group Doomtree released an album in 2015, she pops up on Lin-Manuel Miranda's new benefit single for Puerto Rico and — speaking of Miranda — she stole his 2016 Hamilton Mixtape right out from under an assortment of huge stars. (Side note: How did "Congratulations" get left out of Hamilton's final cut, anyway?) Now, Dessa returns with "Good Grief," a song that portends more new music in 2018. It's built around a bit of wordplay, as well as a decidedly Dessa-esque concept: the idea that there's much to gain from the losses and pain we mourn — but only once we've gained the perspective necessary to put them behind us. "I want that good grief / The one that heals me / That leaves me clarified by fire when I'm burned clean," she sings, later adding, "Good grief's the one that's in the past." Writing via email, Dessa expounds on the notion of, well, good grief: "One day, flipping through assorted feeds on my phone, I ran across the phrase 'good grief' and wondered, 'What's the difference between the good kind and the garden variety that just, you know, hurts?' We have a tendency, I think, to sanctify old pain. When discussing past failures and injuries, we say things like, 'I wouldn't change it if I could — it made me who I am.' Which is pretty nuts, because we expend a lot of effort every day trying our damnedest to change our current circumstances. Considered in the present tense, we don't perceive a spinal fracture or a messy divorce as an opportunity for personal growth. We brake, we veer, we avoid those things if at all possible. Grief's only good when it's over." "Good Grief" is out now via Doomtree.

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Question: Dems Vying for President Debate in New Hampshire

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Leading Democratic contenders for the White House concede they may not be able to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013. During a televised debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, the candidates maintained they didn't know enough at this time to make a firm decision. "It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. "I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.  "I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state. But sensing an opening, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided the assurances the others would not. "I'll get the job done," said Dodd, while Richardson said he would make sure the troops were home by the end of his first year in office. Foreign policy blended with domestic issues at the debate, and several of the contenders endorsed payroll tax increases to assure a stable Social Security system. Current law levies a 6.2 percent payroll tax only on an individual's first $97,500 in annual income. Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, as well as Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, Dodd, Obama and Edwards said they would apply the tax to income now exempted. Richardson said he wouldn't. Clinton refused to say. "I'm not putting anything on the proverbial table" unilaterally, she said. Biden also said he was willing to consider gradually raising the retirement age, now 67. Kucinich said that while he favors taxing additional income, he wants to return the retirement age to 65, where it stood until the law was changed in 1983. Health care, and the drive for universal coverage, also figured in the debate. "I intend to be the health care president," said Clinton, adding she can now succeed at an undertaking that defeated her in 1993 when she was first lady. But Biden said that unnamed special interests were no more willing to work with Clinton now than they were more than a decade ago. "I'm not suggesting it's Hillary's fault; it's reality," he said, carefully avoiding a personal attack on Clinton, who leads in the polls. Biden said a "lot of old stuff comes back" from past battles, adding, "when I say old stuff I mean policy." Across the stage, Clinton smiled at that. Much of the debate's attention was on the former first lady who may become the first woman president. Asked whether she would ever approve torturing a suspected terrorist to prevent the detonation of a big bomb, she said no. Debate moderator Tim Russert, a journalist with NBC News, noted that her husband, former President Bill Clinton once suggested it might be appropriate. "Well, he's not standing here right now," she said, an edge in her voice. With the primary season approaching, all eight contenders have vied with increasing intensity for the support of anti-war voters likely to provide money and organizing muscle as the campaign progresses. Edwards said his position on Iraq was different from Obama and Clinton, adding he would "immediately draw down 40,000 to 50,000 troops." That's roughly half the 100,000 that Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has indicated could be stationed there when President Bush's term ends in January 2009. "I do not want to continue combat missions in Iraq," he said. Asked whether they were prepared to use force to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, several of the hopefuls sidestepped. Instead, they said, all diplomacy must be exhausted in the effort. The debate unfolded in the state that has held the first presidential primary in every campaign for generations. New Hampshire's primary is tentatively set for Jan. 22, but that is expected to change as other states maneuver for earlier primaries. From NPR reports and The Associated Press

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