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For the past few days, NPR has been taking a look at the challenges facing the 30 million American adults who lack basic literacy skills. In the final part of our series on adult education, Kavitha Cardoza of member station WAMU examines the economic and social impacts — not just on individuals, but on society as a whole.
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 ROBIN YOUNG, HOST:  It's HERE AND NOW. Over the past few days, NPR has been taking a look at the challenges facing the 30 million American adults who lack basic literacy skills. In the final part of this series on adult education, we examine the economic and social impacts - not just on people, but society as a whole. Here's Kavitha Cardoza from WAMU in Washington, D.C. KAVITHA CARDOZA, BYLINE: Claudine Edwards had a baby at 13 and dropped out of school. She's been unemployed for five years since she lost her job as a cleaner. Edwards relies on food stamps, and her daughter pays her rent. Now she's 53, and has come to Academy of Hope, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., to ask about classes in basic reading and math. CATHY WALSH: So, the last thing is fees, and it's $30 per term. CARDOZA: She tenses when Cathy Walsh, a staff member, brings up money. CLAUDINE EDWARDS: Can I bring the card to him next Monday? WALSH: Yeah. Yeah. And actually, you don't have to pay all at once. EDWARDS: Right. WALSH: So, if you want to pay $10 at a time, that's fine. CARDOZA: For Edwards and millions of others, the decision to drop out of school may have seemed easy, but the path after that is hard, a lifetime of dreams that lie just out of reach. It means a promotion lost, a business not started, a bedtime story never read. People who struggle to read, write and speak English are sentenced to a lifetime of economic challenges, says Stephen Fuller, an economist with George Mason University in Virginia. He says it's important to have an educated workforce. STEPHEN FULLER: If we fail, it's a double expense, because the economy isn't healthy, and we also have increased social services. CARDOZA: Fuller says that has enormous costs for society. People with low literacy are more likely to need unemployment checks, food stamps and subsidized housing. And they're more likely to end up behind bars. STEPHEN STEURER: We find that about half of the people who come to prison didn't finish high school. CARDOZA: That's Stephen Steurer, who heads the Correctional Education Association, an advocacy group for educators in jails and prisons. Research shows inmates enrolled in education programs while incarcerated were far less likely to return to prison. Steurer says the majority of inmates will eventually be released, so funding educational programs should be common sense. STEURER: It's public safety, baby, you know? It's not a hard sell to tell congressmen that education reduces crime. But who wants to make the choice, we got to build another grade school, or we're going to build a prison school? CARDOZA: Improving literacy rates would not only make for a safer and more prosperous country, but also a healthier one. Alis Marachelian runs the health education program at Mary's Center in the Washington, D.C. She says the barrier between caregivers and patients who lack basic literacy is a huge problem. ALIS MARACHELIAN: We use illustrations for medicines. We would draw the sun and the moon as to when to take the medicine. Sometimes we help them put it in the pill boxes, because they can't count, either. CARDOZA: For some common conditions, such as diabetes, Marachelian says the least compliant patients are the ones with low literacy. It's not that they resist taking medication. They don't understand a wrong dose could be fatal. Leslie Kronz encounters stories like this every day. She works at Inova Health System in Virginia, and says all these challenges have a price tag. LESLIE KRONZ: When people come into the system, if they're not diagnosed accurately, if they don't follow what they're being asked to do, if they're readmitted because of lack of understanding, all of those things add costs. It's not simply patients' problems. It's not simply the hospital or the health system's problems. It affects every one of us. CARDOZA: Some researchers have estimated the cost of low health literacy is at least $100 billion each year. Experts say if the U.S. invested in adult education, these costs to society could be reduced. Instead, they say what's happening is we're cutting. The U.S. spends $2 billion on adult education, but that's a fraction of the funding that goes to schools and colleges. And there's been an almost 20 percent drop in funding since 2002. On top of that, the sequester will impose another 5 percent cut. For those adults who d

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NPR's Tony Cox and News & Notes editor Sasa Woodruff read and respond to listeners' e-mails about our coverage of Disney's retooling of The Frog Princess, our reporting on this year's Emmy Award nominations, and a recent interview with NAACP chairman Julian Bond.

In the aftermath of catastrophic events such as a mass shooting or natural disaster, politicians often offer up their thoughts and prayers to victims. Critics then hit back, condemning the phrase as meaningless — with no real value or impact. Now a new study from economists finds that prayers might have an actual dollar value, and they may also have real consequences for charitable giving in the wake of catastrophe, but not in the way you might think. Source: Thunström, Linda and Shiri Noy, "The Value of Thoughts and Prayers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.  Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, PocketCasts and NPR One.


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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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Economic sanctions have a reputation for being the international equivalent of a slap on the wrist. But in Iran, there's evidence that they are working, and that the country's flamboyant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might pay the price. In the past year, Iran's currency has shed 80 percent of its value against the dollar, dropping by 25 percent in just the past week. That's caused a scramble for the few U.S. dollars available in the black market as people seek a safe haven against the free-falling rial. According to Al-Jazeera, Iranian police have clashed with protesters angered over the massive inflation that threatens to wipe out their savings. Ahmadinejad blames currency speculators. He also readily acknowledges that the international sanctions imposed by the United States, Europe and other countries are taking a toll, even as he remains defiant about giving up the country's nuclear program, which most experts believe is aimed at acquiring an atomic bomb. It has "put the squeeze" on Iran's economy, says Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Transactions Cut Off; Read More: Iranians are feeling the pinch because oil is far and away the country's main export, and much of what ordinary consumers want and need has to be imported. The sanctions have "basically cut off bank transactions between Iran and all of these other countries," Hufbauer says. "If you don't have bank transactions, how do you pay for anything even if you have money? And money is quickly running out in Iran because of oil sanctions." The restrictions have also made it nearly impossible to insure tankers carrying Iranian oil to anyone who is still willing to buy it. "Each one of these vessels has between $50 [million] and $100 million worth of oil in it," he says. "What kind of shipping company is going to take cargo of that value without insurance?" Hufbauer thinks the economic sanctions may make it more difficult for Iran to attract the science and engineering talent it needs to get a nuclear bomb past the end zone. Combined with covert operations such as the Stuxnet computer virus and the assassination of one of Iran's nuclear scientists, it could "set the program back a few years." Suzanne Maloney, of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, says what's occurred is "a kind of feeding frenzy on the streets of ordinary Iranians who simply want to ensure that the value of their money isn't lost overnight." Maloney says the sanctions have helped trigger the current situation, but the crisis is "not tied so much to the specific American, European or international sanctions, so much as it is a growing sense of panic and fear among the Iranian population." The Iranian government, she says, has moved to restrict the supply of dollars offered at a preferential exchange rate to particular groups. "In the past, individuals going on pilgrimage or students going abroad had been able to have access to larger amounts of cheap dollars. Those supplies are beginning to be cut off," she says, adding that the current level of inflation is "unprecedented since the [1979] revolution." What are the consequences of the unrest for the Iranian regime? Ahmadinejad's term as president expires next August, and he can't run for re-election. But the president plays second fiddle to the country's real power base, the Islamic clerics. They have grown increasingly disenchanted with his leadership over the past 18 months and may be looking for a convenient scapegoat, Maloney says. "I wouldn't be surprised if there was an attempt to blame Ahmadinejad," she says. "That seems to be where much of the leadership has been trying to divert attention." There's already intense speculation about who succeeds Ahmadinejad. Whoever the new president is, he is unlikely to abandon the nuclear program outright. "We will see the Iranians dangle a bit more receptivity and flexibility on the negotiating front," Maloney says. "I don't think they've made the strategic decision to capitulate on all of the demands of the international community or Washington, but I do think they recognize they are going to have to play in order to get paid."

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Lawmakers Seek Federal 'Oversight' Of Workers' Comp As States Limit Benefits. -- Syria's Assad Visits Moscow To Discuss Military Plans With Putin. -- U.S. Fighter Jet Reportedly Crashes Near Air Base In England. And here are more early headlines: Obama To Visit West Virginia, Discuss Plan To Fight Drug Abuse. (Time) Amnesty International Fears For Rohingya Muslims Missing At Sea. (VOA) Slovenia Asks For E.U. Help To Deal With Thousands Of Migrants. (AFP) Mexico To Restart Investigation Into Fate Of 43 Missing Students. (BBC) Tropical Storm Patricia Forms Off Mexico's Pacific Coast. (NHC) Top U.S. Navy Officials Visit China's Aircraft Carrier To Smooth Ties. (Reuters) Singapore Church Leaders Convicted In Pop Music Fraud Scheme. (Sydney Morning Herald) Why Vultures Can Eat Rotting Carcasses And Not Get Sick. (Phys.org)


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In the latest political love poem from the national media to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new edition of Esquire magazine proclaims that the governor is leading the nation into a ¿new kind of politics.¿

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NBC's former chief health editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, has shared her experience of being quarantined in her New Jersey home last year after reporting on Ebola. A quick recap from the 3,400-word story that appears with an "as told to Seth Abramovitch" byline in The Hollywood Reporter: Snyderman arrived in Liberia on a Monday night last September. One of the cameramen on her team, Ashoka Mukpo, had already been in the country four weeks. Two days after Snyderman arrived in the country, Mukpo came down with a fever. Two days after that, he tested positive for Ebola and was airlifted to the U.S. for treatment. Snyderman and her team spent most of what was supposed to be a reporting trip holed up in a hotel (although not in the one headquartering the U.S. military effort, as she suggests) before NBC hired a private jet to retrieve them. It was an upsetting time. Just as Mukpo got sick, a Liberian man named Thomas Eric Duncan was dying in a hospital in Dallas. People in the U.S. were afraid of anyone who had been in West Africa, and especially anyone who knew a sick person. Anyone like Snyderman. "I realize now that I was not sensitive to how frightened people were," Snyderman says. When she returned home, she was put under voluntary quarantine in her home. When she was spotted out in her car a couple days later, the Internet went crazy. She became a sort of pariah. In the story, she says that since she did not leave her car, she obeyed the "letter of the law" but "didn't take into account how just downright scared people were, and so it came off as phenomenally arrogant." This spring, she left NBC, and journalism altogether, to go back to medicine. Snyderman's recount of her experience takes me back to last fall in a powerful way. I arrived in Monrovia just a couple days after Snyderman. We were staying in the same hotel. I remember how unsettling it was that Mukpo had gotten sick. How had he become infected? Would the rest of the team be OK? And I remember the strange stigma of returning home. I wrote about it here, in fact. "It's surreal ... to return to the U.S. and find mild hysteria," I observed. "To read headlines like, 'Can Dallas Defeat Ebola?' A woman on my flight from Washington, D.C., back to California is wearing rubber gloves. People seem confused and scared without knowing why." But this is where my experience differs dramatically from Snyderman's. In her telling, she was confident throughout — confident she hadn't been infected, confident that she was in the right when it came to breaking the voluntary quarantine. I didn't have anything like the close call she had, working with someone hours before they developed Ebola symptoms, and yet my notebook is peppered with heavy doubt. On Oct. 5, my Monrovia to-do list includes the item "Google Malaria med side effects ... sore neck?" Ten days later, back in Los Angeles, I recorded my body temperature this way: "99.1°F !!!" (It returned to normal an hour later.) Part of me is embarrassed to read my own notes from that time. I was not calm and cool. Knowing the science didn't keep me from being nervous. But another part of me thinks my nervousness was realistic, even important. Being nervous was a reminder that I had a responsibility to do everything I could to avoid being infected, that in an epidemic, avoiding infection is an issue of public health, not just personal well-being.

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There is no shortage of television shows built on the premise that whatever your home looks like is wrong. The paint is wrong, the furniture is wrong, the floors are wrong, the floor plan is wrong, and it's entirely possible that your plumbing was put in by marauding vandals who cackled gleefully as they connected your upstairs shower to your kitchen sink in a way that has been causing you to unwittingly wash your hair with Dawn for the last 12 years. Someone must fix it! And film it! But before a lot of those shows even existed, neighbors were painting each other's walls and testing their relationships on Trading Spaces on TLC. Trading Spaces wasn't the first home-renovation show. In fact, it was based on a BBC series called Changing Rooms. But it had quite a run from 2000 to 2008 — that means it ended three years before Property Brothers even started. And now, after 10 years, it's returned. And other than everyone being a bit older, it's almost exactly the same. The conceit of the show is that two sets of neighbors "trade" houses and work with a designer to redecorate one room in the other home. So let's say Connie and Charlie work with one designer to redo Debbie and David's living room, while Debbie and David work with the other designer to redo Connie and Charlie's bedroom. Each team only had $1000 to work with on the original show — it's now $2000 — and they have the help of a carpenter to build furniture and other items. At the end, there's a "reveal" where the C's see what the D's did to the bedroom, and the D's see what the C's did to the living room. They might love it! But they might not. Now, the myth about Trading Spaces is that the whole point was that the room was always awful. Everyone was always miserable. Everyone gritted their teeth and tolerated what they clearly hated. Not true! Certain designers did specialize in wacky concepts that not only weren't attractive, but often seemed likely to damage the room. Hildi Santo-Tomas, who was notorious for this kind of thing, covered an entire kitchen with wine labels, for instance — for, as I recall it, a pastor who didn't drink. She stapled silk flowers to the walls of one room. (Enjoy getting those staples out! Maybe just replace the drywall?) She pasted hay all over the walls of one room. She built a room with a beach theme and piled sand on the floor. But some of the designers really did make beautiful rooms. The point wasn't reliable awfulness; it was reliable chaos. There were a bunch of designers in the cast, so you'd only get two on each episode, and as longtime viewers will tell you, an episode where the designers were Doug Wilson and Hildi (both likely to intentionally provoke shock) was very different from an episode where the designers were Vern Yip and Genevieve Gorder (both eager to genuinely please). It says something — but nothing surprising — that the first episode back features Doug and Hildi. Crying on camera decays much more slowly than the pleasant satisfaction of a job well done, so the show's legacy, over 10 years, has emphasized the room reveals where the homeowner started crying — and not with happiness. But it's logical that they don't want to start with an episode that would lead newcomers to think the whole point was tormenting people and destroying their homes. So you shouldn't expect calamity in the first episode. But you should expect ... doubts. There are a lot of differences between this do-over and Netflix's reboot of Queer Eye, to say the least. They didn't change the cast here, and the designers aren't confronting the same considerations about social change and how it affects the fabric of the program. But the two have something in common nevertheless. Even when a show is fairly well-executed and popular, as both Queer Eye and Trading Spaces were, if it relies on a formula, people become fatigued. After a while, they move on to something else fairly well-executed and popular that's made with a different formula. But then, after a while, they remember that they liked that formula — like they might remember a restaurant they used to visit and eventually started to take for granted. The food's not perfect, but it's familiar, and when they've been gone a while, it appeals.

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Question: Chocolate Rum Raisin Bread Pudding

The success of this decadent bread pudding lies in the use of stale bread. The drier the bread, the more easily it will soak up the chocolate custard.    Makes 8 servings   1/2 cup golden raisins 1/4 cup dark rum Unsalted butter 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 10 ounces dark (70 to 72 percent cacao) chocolate, finely chopped 6 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 stale 10-ounce baguette, cut in 1/2-inch slices, each slice halved Combine raisins and rum in a small bowl. Let stand at room temperature for at least 1 hour. Lightly butter an 8-inch square baking dish. Heat cream and milk in a saucepan until hot but not boiling. Remove from heat and add chocolate, whisking until smooth. Whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon together in a large bowl until combined. Add chocolate to the eggs and mix well. Stir in raisins with the rum. Pour the chocolate mixture over the bread. Let stand 1 hour, pushing down on bread to submerge. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Bake in oven until set and the top is crisp, about 1 hour. Cool slightly. Serve warm with whipped cream.

A soda company is offering familiar -- if unusual -- Thanksgiving flavors in a bottle. Last year, Jones Soda introduced Turkey and Gravy Soda. This year, they complete the meal with Green Bean Casserole, Mashed Potato and Fruitcake. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne.


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Question: 'El Chapo' Back In Prison He Escaped From — Thanks, In Part, To Lure Of Hollywood

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán had seen his name in headlines. He knew it graced the world's Most Wanted lists. But it appears that the notorious drug kingpin wanted something more: He wanted his name in lights. Guzmán was recaptured by the Mexican government on Friday, and has been returned to the same prison he broke out of in July. Mexican authorities tracked him down in the seaside city of Los Mochis thanks in part to Guzmán's desire to make a biopic about his life, Mexico's attorney general says. The druglord had contacted actors and producers, Arely Gomez says, opening a line of investigation that helped Mexican marines ultimately capture the fugitive. Guzman's life is certainly dramatic enough for the big screen. In fact, a film based on his story -- Chapo: El Escape del Siglo, or Chapo: The Escape of the Century — is set to open in Mexico next week. And a less glamorous video of his July escape has already seized the attention of the world, as Bill and Laura reported yesterday:  "Surveillance video shot by a security camera in Guzmán's cell showed one of the world's most notorious criminals pacing around before dropping behind a partition in the shower area of his cell. "That cell was in the Altiplano prison, a maximum security facility about 55 miles from Mexico City. Guzmán spent less than 18 months there before his accomplices used a nearly 1-mile tunnel to ferry him to freedom. "Before he was captured in February of 2014, Guzmán had been on the lam since 2001 — when he escaped from another maximum security prison that was reportedly nearly identical to the one he broke out of last year."  After his 2001 escape, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel "managed to outmaneuver, outfight or out-bribe his rivals to stay at the top of the business for over a decade," as Reuters put it. This time around, he had months, not years, of freedom. Mexican forces first located Guzmán in October, but he escaped in part because Mexican marines held their fire at the sight of two women and a child with him, Mexican attorney general Arely Gomez said Friday. Officials then tracked Guzmán to Los Mochis, with help from his silver-screen dreams and information from one of his tunnel builders, the Associated Press reports. They narrowed his location down to one house in an upscale neighborhood, and moved in early Friday, the wire service says:  "Five suspects were killed and six others arrested. One marine was injured. " 'You could hear intense gunfire and a helicopter; it was fierce,' said a neighbor, adding that the battle raged for three hours, starting at 4 a.m. She refused to be quoted by name in fear for her own safety. "Gomez said Guzman and his security chief, 'El Cholo' Ivan Gastelum, were able to flee via storm drains and escape through a manhole cover to the street, where they commandeered getaway cars. Marines climbed into the drains in pursuit. They closed in on the two men based on reports of stolen vehicles and they were arrested on the highway."  Now Guzmán is back at the Altiplano maximum-security prison — the site of his July escape. The U.S. has a standing request for Guzmán to be transferred to the States, where he faces drug trafficking charges. Many are calling for that extradition to happen, and quickly. On Friday, Mexican authorities said nothing about extraditing the escape artist to America.

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Question: To Critics, Cadillac Tax Looks Like A Yugo

What's so wrong with the tax on high-end health plans that President Obama supports so strongly? Well, Allan Sloan writes in the Washington Post, the dirty little secret of the Cadillac tax is that more than 80 percent of the money it would supposedly raise to fund health overhaul would actually come from an increase in taxes on individuals. And those people wouldn't be just the ones making big bucks. Most of the tax burden would fall on people making $100,000 to $200,000 a year. How's that, you ask? Sloan cites an analysis from Congress' Joint Commission on Taxation that shows only $26 billion of the $149 billion a Cadillac tax would raise would come directly from a excise tax levied on the expensive plans. The rest would come from a presumed increase in taxable wages made possible by a shift of money that was spent on health plans into employees' paychecks. Read More >> As Obama told NPR last month, the tax (a 40% levy on family plans costing $23,000 or more) would protect "ordinary workers" by making sure they don't pay too much for insurance. It would also redirect money that now goes to insurers into workers' "pockets in the form of higher salaries." Sloan isn't buying that logic. "Call me skeptical -- or cynical -- but I find it hard to believe that any employer would pay more to employees if it paid less for health care," he writes. NPR's Mara Liasson reports that unions are steamed and unlikely to forgive and forget the tax hit, even if negotiations blunt the blow by raising the threshold and expanding exemptions. Union members are disillusioned with the Democrats and may not rally behind them in the midterm elections. Back at the Post, the editorial page comes out swinging in favor of the Cadillac tax as laid out in the Senate health bill, notwithstanding Sloan's column only four pages away. Besides raising money the tax would help contain health spending, the Post writes, and the administration should use negotiations on final health bill to "strengthen, not weaken, the cost-control mechanisms that have survived the legislative process."

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Question: The Twilight Of The Big Bang

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We live at the end of an era. We live in one of those singular moments in history when one scientific and culturally accepted concept of cosmic origins is fading and others, yet unproven, vie for ascendency. We live at the twilight of the big bang. The consequences of this coming reorientation in perspective will reach far beyond observatories and physics classrooms.  Every culture needs a cosmology to justify itself and place its activity into the broadest of perspectives. This is a theme I explore in my new book and, as promised, will be a topic I will blog on periodically. It was in the process of researching a book on just new cosmological ideas that I recognized the intricate braiding of cosmology and culture.  A cosmology, I found, can not be switched out easily, like some carburetor on the engine of a culture's imagination.  Far more than textbooks are going to have to change.   But to understand those deep entanglements we must first start at the beginning. In our case that beginning is the end: the end of the big bang. First, let us be clear: The Big Bang as a theory of what happened after the moment "creation" is doing just fine. Read More What made the big bang so radical when it was first introduced some 80 years ago (first by George Lemaitre and later by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher) was the assumption that the universe looked radically different in the past then it does now.  The big bang was first and foremost a theory of the universe's evolution.  It told a story of a Universe that was once in a state of extreme compression and extreme temperature, a universe that expanded like the skin of an inflating balloon into the relatively empty and relatively cold state we see today. This story of "after," built on a mix of particle physics and Einstein's classical theory of relativity, has been an astonishing triumph.  A hundred years ago the evolution of the universe used to be a foggy territory, half physics and half philosophy.  Now we can run the clock on cosmic history back to fractions of a second after its expansion began and be confident the story we tell is correct. But as a theory of the beginning itself — as a theory of some kind of genesis — the big bang was never very helpful.  If you run the idea backward far enough, space and, most importantly, time just disappear into an explosion of infinities that essentially tell you that you have gone too far.  The theory, in particular Einstein's theory of relativity, rolls over and wiggles its legs in the air like a bug dosed on Raid. The infinities that appear in the big bang, if you wind things back all the way to t=0 are, taken together, called the singularity.  Physicists knew the problem was that Einstein's theory for gravity was a classical one.  For all its awesome power and insight, it treated the flexible fabric of space and time (space-time) as a continuum — a smooth, ever-divisible whole.  But physicists know that on microscopic scales nature is not built that way.  Zoom in to a small enough level and the quantum is king; nature is chopped up, discrete and "sandy." Many physicists suspected that once a theory of quantum gravity was in hand, the difficulties with the singularity would be resolved.  We might, for instance, learn how to get through the singularity to see a "before" the big bang.  While we still do not have anything close to a complete theory of quantum gravity, enough has been learned that many scientists believe the outlines are resolved.  They are ready to begin moving beyond the idea of the big bang as the single and singular moment of creation. But the end of the big bang was not simply a matter of theory.  In many ways we have reached the twilight of the big bang, as a story of the beginning, through better examinations of the very data that convinced us it was a good story of after in the first place. In 1964 two Bell Labs scientists discovered fossil microwave light imprinted with signals from the baby universe.  This cosmic microwave background (CMB) was the nail in the coffin for all competing theories of cosmic history.  But within the big bang's triumph were the seeds of its own difficulties.  As years passed and scientists took ever higher resolution images of the CMB, they found it held paradoxes that challenged the orthodox version of a Universe smoothly expanding from t=0.  From this and other paradoxes was born inflationary cosmology. Inflation grafts a brief moment of hyper-expansion on steroids onto the classic big-bang theory to resolve the paradoxes.  But by adding this new feature at 10-33 of a second after the big bang, it shook the foundation of what we mean by cosmology.  The much-needed inflation — the big bang no longer makes sense without it — opened the door to the idea that the universe we see is not the entire universe. Physicists always knew we could not look beyond 13.7 billion light years (since that was the age of the cosmos). Inflation, however added its own twist to the idea of cosmi

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Question: Laughter: The Best Medicine

If you listen closely to giggles, guffaws, and polite chuckles, you can discern a huge amount of information about people and their relationships with each other. This week, we talk with neuroscientist Sophie Scott about the many shades of laughter, from cackles of delight among close friends to the "canned" mirth of TV laugh tracks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl reads three quotes from the week's news: Is This Pledge a Lemon; Out With the Old, In With the Old; and Time Is on Their Side.


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Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week's news: The Jury Is Out, St. Peter Express, Mind The Queue.

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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.
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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Question: Solitary Confinement: Punishment Or Cruelty?

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An estimated 80,000 American prisoners spend 23 hours a day in closed isolation units for 10, 20 or even more than 30 years. Now, amid growing evidence that it causes mental breakdown, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has decided for the first time to review its policies on solitary confinement. Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which pioneered solitary confinement, is a castle of a prison that was meant to reform incarceration itself when it opened in 1829. The idea behind the prison's solitary confinement areas was to use sensory deprivation to reform inmates. The thought was that the isolation and quiet would free the innately good soul. "They believed that isolation here was going to bring about the best of these inmates. Change them for life. Make them penitent," says Sean Kelley, director of public programming at the historic site. "There is a lot of evidence that that is not what happened." For many reasons that sound familiar today – including cost and questionable effectiveness — Eastern State dropped the practice in 1913, but by then the blueprint of this penitentiary had been copied more than 300 times across the Western world. The prison, once a state-of-the-art facility, closed its doors in 1970, and is now a museum. An Uncertain Method Solitary confinement exploded with the law-and-order policies of the 1980s, when almost every state built what's called a "supermax" for the so-called "worst of the worst." But since then, more questions have been raised about the mental health of prisoners held this way. Last summer, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights subcommittee, led hearings to address solitary confinement practices. He says it was prompted by a New Yorker article by Boston surgeon Atul Gowande titled "Hellhole." "I read it, and I couldn't forget it," Durbin tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All Things Considered. "It was all about the impact of segregation and isolation on prisoners, and I started thinking about it as part of my agenda for my subcommittee on human rights." Testifying in front of the committee was Charles Samuels, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Samuels explained the necessity of the solitary confinement to keep violent inmates apart from guards and other prisoners. "The use of any form of restricted housing, however limited, remains a critical management tool that helps us maintain safety, security and effective reentry programming for all federal inmates," Samuels said. The BOP wouldn't grant an interview for this story, but provided a comment saying the bureau is confident the review "will highlight both the strengths that the Bureau brings to corrections management, as well as innovative ideas from the states." Solitary confinement already doubles to triples the costs of incarceration, up to $60,000 a year per inmate. But wardens who've seen its wide use now in the last 30 years have their own evaluation of whether it does more harm than good. "I really believed when I got close to the situation at the supermax in Wisconsin that one of the things that I was seeing was mentally ill people who didn't come in mentally ill," says Walter Dickey, formerly the secretary of corrections for Wisconsin. Dickey tells NPR's Lyden that the level of security and the overcrowding he saw were detrimental to a prisoner's mental health, even when they didn't start out in isolation. He doesn't, however, think the practice should be dropped. "[The feds] had experiences in which they had inmates kill multiple staff members and multiple inmates," he says. 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Mohsin Hamid's newest novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, takes its structure from the genre of self-help tutorials. Chapter 1: Move to the City. Chapter 2: Get an Education. Chapter 3: Don't Fall in Love (the book's nameless protagonist, who transforms from rural peasant to corporate tycoon, fails to follow this last directive). After all, the dogged pursuit of success doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's more than just fertile ground for a novelist — according to Hamid, it's an intensifying global phenomenon. "For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world."  Interview Highlights On writing a "self-help" novel "It started off as a joke. I was in New York, talking with a friend of mine, and we started joking about the idea that sometimes, reading novels felt like hard work, and we were doing it because they were good for us. And I said, 'Well, you know, I'm going to write my next novel as a self-help book.' And I tried to forget that, but it had triggered this notion that, you know, maybe novels really are self-help books. And maybe writing a novel is sort of self-help for me, being more comfortable with my life and the world. And maybe there's a kind of self-help in reading fiction, too." On the protagonist's evolution as an entrepreneur  "The story of this guy, who is the model for the self-help book, takes you from the village — because right now there are billions of people who are migrating from the world's villages and countryside into the world's big cities. ... They're doing it because the rural economy all over the world is collapsing. Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities. And the next step is, in the city, you need an education. And then there's a whole series of steps, basically, that take this character as he grows up and becomes a man, to basically realize you need to be a really hard-nosed, cunning entrepreneur to make it." On the fictional — and real — marketization of water "[The protagonist] figures out, by working for a very cunning guy who takes expired canned goods and resells them after rewriting the [expiration] dates on them so they look like they haven't expired, that there's all sorts of niches the market doesn't service very well. And what's happening in much of the world right now is that there's a water crisis. There's not enough clean drinking water available. So our hero decides that he should get into this water business. And the first step [in] that for him is to begin to boil tap water, put it inside mineral water bottles, seal it and sell it to ... unsuspecting restaurants and wealthier people. "It's at the heart of economic growth. It's also at the heart of how our world is being marketized. Because things that we used to take for granted — water, for example, was almost free for a long time. And now, suddenly, it is having a price put on it. It's becoming a giant market. So that area, a former public domain that's now becoming a huge, contested economic activity, is where he decides to fight his economic fight." On the business landscapes in Pakistan and America  "The biggest difference, I think, is that in the U.S. there are more rules. And those rules generally work to people's mutual benefit. In a place like Pakistan, for example, or many other emerging economies, as they're called, there are fewer rules. So, there is more corruption, there's more direct violence, intimidation, breaking of regulations. Now, as we know, these things happen in America, too. But the level of it is just more intense. "In a way, there's this whole debate in America. ... What if the state got out of the way? What would happen? What would it be like? Living in Pakistan, I can tell you that in Pakistan, the state has gotten out of the way. There's rampant gun ownership, there's almost no taxes, there's a free-for-all, in a way, economically. And it is a very, very tough and difficult environment for human beings to succeed in." On the benefits and pitfalls of development "There's two different sides to it. On the one hand, people are getting a little bit more to eat. They're living a little longer. Their kids are getting vaccinated. That's important. There's a material improvement that is going on. And I think it can't be denied. The problem, though, is something else. I think the problem is more psychological or almost spiritual, you could say. There's a kind of spiritual and mental health crisis that's taking place. And you see that expressed in all kinds of strange phenomena like terrorism and crime and depression. So, th

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Stories: 1) 'The Ten-Year Nap': Stay-at-Home Mama Drama 2) PBS Series Takes a Long Look at 'Bush's War'


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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.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior rejected requests from both the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and the [...]

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San Diego County Sues to Overturn Legal Marijuana. High School Exit Exam Settlement. End Music.


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An image of man passing a baby under a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border has taken top honors at this year's World Press Photo of the Year. The photo, titled "Hope for a New Life," was taken by Australian photographer Warren Richardson and shows a man with his eyes set on the horizon, passing the infant under coils of razor-wire into outstretched arms in the moonlight. Richardson took the photo in late August in Röszke, Hungary, which is on the border with Serbia. Hungarian police have routinely cracked down on the massive flow of migrants fleeing from Syria, Iraq and other countries. "It had such power because of its simplicity, especially the symbolism of the barbed wire," general jury chair and Agence France-Press photo director Francis Kohn said in a press release from World Press Photo. "It's subtle, and shows the emotion and the real feeling from the deep heart of a father just trying to hand over his baby to the world he was longing to be in," adds jury member and director of new media development at Xinhua News Agency Huang Wen. Richardson describes the experience of covering border crossings in this area over the course of five days on his website: "There were men, women and children, amputees, the sick, all with stories to tell about where they had come from and where they wanted to go." One night stood out, he says. "There was a group of Syrians hiding amongst the apple trees on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary, their challenge was to put as many people under the newly constructed razor wire fence. In the group there were some ten engineers that had taken a good look at the fence to see where they could cross so that they could get as many of their friends and family members into Hungary." Here's more of Richardson's account:  "Like a finely tuned machine, they played cat and mouse with the Hungarian police. The police would come and go from near where the Syrian group was hiding. Each time the police showed up, they would try to fix the fence so that people would not go under. But each time the police would leave, the Syrian engineers would make another hole so that they could help as many people as possible get under the fence. The police continually returned to the same spot, but this time they were a little more verbal and angry. The police attempted to fix the new holes that the Syrian engineers had made. The police were yelling into the darkness in broken English, 'do not come illegally into Hungary, go away we do not want you here, if we catch you, you will be arrested.' They proceeded to spray pepper everywhere to prevent anyone from using this particular spot. Again the police moved on to check other areas they were having problems with. Once again the Syrian engineers, with tears in their eyes from the pepper spray, created another hole in the fence to allow more people to move forward into Hungary to get to Germany, as this is where they desperately wanted to be. Four hours on from when they started, they had helped more than 200 people go under the razor wire fence. Once everyone had passed under the fence, the Syrian engineers said their last good byes to me, and left as they were the last ones to go into the darkness of the night."  It's not clear if the man depicted in this photo was among this particular group of engineers. But it gives a sense of the atmosphere where this photo was taken. In a press release from World Press Photo, Richardson says the photo was taken by moonlight, because a flash would give away their location to the police. Richardson, who is currently based in Eastern Europe, says on his website that his next project will involve walking to the Arctic Circle.

It's Friday, and here are some of the stories we're watching: Egypt's 'Smooth Military Coup' Protested. Last Suspect In 1995 Sarin Attack Arrested In Tokyo. Forest Boy Is A Hoax, Police Say. Prosecutors Rest Their Case In Sandusky Sex Assaults Trial. (Philadelphia Inquirer) Britain Proposes Expanding Individual Data Tracking, Critics Slam Its Intrusiveness. (Telegraph) Democracy Activist Aung San Suu Kyi Falls Ill Briefly, Resumes European Tour. (Reuters) Spain's Debt Rises Sharply In The First Quarter, Up 30 Percentage Points Since 2008. (Wall Street Journal) International Criminal Court Swears In Gambian Lawyer As Top Prosecutor, First Woman To Hold Position. (CNN) China To Launch First Female Astronaut Into Space Tomorrow. (AP) Tropical Storm Carlotta Poised To Become Hurricane Off Mexico's Pacific Coast. (AP) In Sports: Tiger Tied For Second, Miami Ties Up NBA Finals.


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Question: The Kid Mero Roasts America, One Trump Joke at a Time

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Latino USA speaks with Joel Martinez, better known as The Kid Mero. Mero is co-host of Viceland's late-night comedy show, where he delivers smart and hilarious commentary on politics and pop culture.

This year brought a wide range of news events and NPR's Instagram audience responded. With a mix of still images and videos, we gained about 350,000 new followers and surpassed our engagement goals in 2017. Our Instagram philosophy is to share a mix of NPR stories from a variety of topics each day. Breaking news and politics led the top 10 posts of the year but our audience also gravitated to features including baby boxes, a favorite dish from Iran and a lesson on Native American treaties. The top overall post was from early 2017, showing the Women's March on Washington following President Trump's inauguration ceremony. The rest of the top 10 are seen in chronological order, highlighting different news events throughout the year.  Women's March Floods Washington, Sparking Rallies Worldwide  Dispatches Of Discontent: Protesters Of Immigration Ban Take To The Streets  States Give New Parents Baby Boxes To Encourage Safe Sleep Habits  PHOTOS: Scientists Take To Washington To Stress A Nonpartisan Agenda  D.C. Equality March Makes Pride Political  The Aroma Of Rice And Barberries Takes Her Back Home To Iran  Harvey Weakens Over Louisiana As Houston Copes With Record Rainfall  A Few Things To Know: Why Treaties Matter Today  Speaker Ryan On Sexual Harassment: 'We Are Having A Watershed Moment In This Country'  Joe Biden Remembers His Son In His New Memoir


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Question: McCain, Obama Trade Barbs In Separate Talk Shows

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain appeared on different morning talk shows Sunday. They laid out starkly contrasting positions on an array of hot-button issues.

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Good morning - here are our early stories: Obama, Romney Trade Jokes; Critics Aim At Obama's 'Optimal' Comment. Malala Stands For First Time Since Being Shot By Taliban, Doctors Say. And these headlines: Ill. Rep. Joe Walsh Says Abortions Not Needed To Save Women's Lives. (Politico) Syrian Jets Drop Cluster Bombs On Rebel Town, Killing Civilians. (AFP) Turkey Retaliates Again After Syrian Shells Fall Into Its Territory. (Al-Arabiya) North And South Korea Trade War Threats Over Provocative Leaflets. (Korea Times) Following Alleged Rape, Curfew Imposed On All U.S. Military Personnel In Japan. (Stars and Stripes) Amtrak High Speed Train To Travel 110 MPH In Illinois Today In Midwest. (AP) Sandusky Seeks New Trial, Claims Insufficient Evidence To Convict Him. (CNN)


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Take heart if you're sick of money in politics and the undue influence of political parties. On Tuesday evening, a Mississippi truck driver won the Democratic nomination for governor without spending a cent, running a TV ad or even launching a website. Robert Gray was the surprise winner to challenge Republican Gov. Phil Bryant this fall, upsetting party favorite Vicki Slater, a trial lawyer, and OB-GYN Valerie Adream Smartt Short. Gray won with just over 50 percent of the vote, even avoiding a runoff. He beat Slater, his next closest opponent, by 20 points. So how exactly did a political unknown with no campaign infrastructure who didn't even bother to vote for himself in the primary manage to win? Gray chalks it up to the fact that his name was the first one voters in the low-turnout primary saw on the ballot. In fact, he said, his parents didn't even know he was running. "Actually, it wasn't too much campaigning," Gray told Mississippi Public Broadcasting. "It was a couple of events, but even though my opponents did a lot of hard campaigning they only reached a few people. You know, it was just people showing up, voting and, I guess random, voting." The phenomenon is nothing new — especially for Democrats in the South lately. With their party receding and struggling to even be competitive statewide, lower-turnout Democratic primaries haven't gone Democrats' way — hobbling their chances even more. In 2010, South Carolina Democrats thought they had finally found someone to take on then-GOP Sen. Jim DeMint. Charleston County Councilman Vic Rawl was supposed to have won the primary. But once the votes were counted, that wasn't the case. Instead, Alvin Greene — a 32-year-old unemployed military veteran who still lived with his father — won with 59 percent of the vote. Palmetto State Democrats were dumbfounded, and the party led the charge to try to get Greene off the ballot after he was indicted on a felony pornography charge. But Greene would remain on the ballot — and would lose handily in November to DeMint. Tennessee Democrats have suffered similar episodes, too. In 2012, their upset nominee for Senate was Mark Clayton, who was actually a conservative who opposed same-sex marriage and abortion and was the leader of a controversial anti-gay group. His off-the-wall statements drew attention, such as claiming that the Transportation Security Administration "mandates [transsexuals] and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones." Two years later, it was a man named — no joke — Charlie Brown who defeated another establishment-backed candidate to claim the Democratic nomination for governor. Apparently upset with Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, in one letter to the editor he appeared to threaten to electrocute the governor. What did Greene, Clayton, Brown and now Gray all have in common? Their names all came first on the ballot. And according to political scientists, that can sometimes be enough, especially in a low-turnout, low-information primary. "Everybody knows somebody named Gray," said Charles S. Bullock III, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia. "It helps to have a common name, all things being equal." Bullock said there could also have been some gender bias, given that Gray was running against two women. But for states like South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi, when you already have a struggling state party apparatus, these upset wins can easily happen. "When you're the underdog party, it's hard to get someone to step up to run," said Bullock. "You have essentially a number of people who are not well-known. One of them may be particularly weak, but no one goes into this with name recognition and money necessarily." As for Gray, his chances to pull another upset are unlikely. Bryant was already heavily favored to win a second term in the deeply red state.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Biden: McConnell Refused To Sign Bipartisan Statement On Russian Interference. -- Trump Lashes Out After Schumer Withdraws Offer On Border Wall. -- Remains Of 5 Gas Rig Workers Recovered After Explosion In Oklahoma. -- The Memo, The Bureau And The Missing Texts: Get Caught Up On The War Over The FBI. -- Google's Space Race To The Moon Ends, And Nobody Wins Lunar X Prize. -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth's Pregnancy Set To Be Another First For The Illinois Democrat. -- Gunmen Storm Afghan Office Of Save The Children. And here are more early headlines: Ex-Brazilian President Lula Waits For Corruption Appeal Verdict. (AFP) New Interim San Francisco Mayor Picked; Opponents Say Race A Factor. (SF Gate) Foreclosures Could Increase In Puerto Rico After Hurricanes. (AP) Senate Close To Voting On HHS Nominee, Alex Azar. (The Hill) "Where We Net Out At This": The Jargon At Davos. (BBC)


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Question: Jobs Numbers May Indicate Slowing Economy

Employers added 75,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department reports. It was the smallest increase since October 2005. At the same time, the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, its lowest reading since the summer of 2001.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- U.S. Weighs Offering More Help As Migrants Arrive In Europe. -- Announcing Reform, Pope Francis Smooths Process To Annul Marriages. And here are more early headlines: Illinois Officer Buried As Manhunt Continues For Murder Suspects. (Chicago Sun-Times) Koreas Agree To Family Reunions After Diplomatic Talks. (CNN) China Marks 50th Anniversary Of Control Of Tibet. (AP) Venezuela Closes More Of Its Border With Colombia. (Deutsche Welle) Suu Kyi Opens Campaigning For Myanmar's Upcoming Election. (Guardian) Advice On Getting Tickets To See Pope Francis In Philadelphia. (AP) Queen Elizabeth Poised To Become Britain's Longest Reigning Monarch. (Parade) Spear Tip Stolen From King Kamehameha's Statue In Hawaii. (KITV-TV)


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Why "Monkey See"? Monkeys: You can study them to learn about human behavior, or you can dress them up in funny outfits and have them deliver telegrams. Which is to say, they lie exactly at the intersection of anthropology and comedy. (See Figure A.) That spot — the intersection of high and low — is the territory this blog stakes out. You can, after all, learn a lot about people from what they choose to watch, listen to and read. You can also have a lot of fun viewing YouTube videos of local news anchors sneezing in the middle of a broadcast. Of course, the name also plays off the famous three monkeys — the ones who see, hear and speak no evil. Because to us, despite a whiff at times of guilty pleasure, there's not much in the pop universe that feels "evil." Read More >> Our take: The more we can appreciate a variety of tastes, the better the conversations we can have. Our goal: to examine the sights and sounds of our media-drenched culture and "speak" about what it all means with our fellow curious creatures. Then there's "Monkey see, monkey do," a motto of which we've adopted only half. Because while you'll see a lot out there, part of being a more discerning pop-culture consumer is figuring out how to sort through it all and find what you like. The good news: We're here to help.

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Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Eric Weiner about North Korea's announcement that it's withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The government in Pyongyang says it will resume construction on a nuclear generating plant but has no immediate plans to build nuclear weapons.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Acting FBI Boss To Take Comey's Place At Senate Intel Hearing. -- Workers Take Jefferson Davis Statue Off Its Pedestal In New Orleans. -- Ex-Massey Energy CEO Completes 1-Year Federal Criminal Sentence. -- Dissident Rebels In Colombia Ignore Peace Treaty And Continue Extortion. And here are more early headlines: Tillerson Joins Arctic Nations Officials Meeting In Alaska. (AP) Montana Glaciers Shrinking At Tremendous Rate. (USGS) Venzuelan Protesters Fling Feces At Government Forces. (Washington Post) Energy Department To Study Tunnel Cave-In At Nuclear Waste Site. (NBC) VA Chief Says More Time Needed To End Veteran Homelessness. (AP) Boeing Halts New Plane Delivery To Test Potential Engine Problem. (Seattle Times)


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