Sunday, November 3, 2013

from NPR, Sunday, November 3, 2013




Obama's patina as a different kind of politician is beginning to rub away.


As medical consensus grows that obesity is a disease, a Massachusetts bill banning anti-fat bias at work makes unprecedented political progress.






Syria wiped out polio a decade ago, but the ongoing conflict has re-introduced the disease


The rate of heroin use is up, and federal data shows that nearly 80 percent of people using the illegal drug had previously abused prescription painkillers.


On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the Lincoln Presidential Library offers a challenge in succinct storytelling.


The satirist has managed to anger two governments in Egypt.


After focus groups and polls indicated that replacing the vice president with Hillary Clinton wouldn't boost the president's re-election effort, the idea was dropped. Former White House Chief of Staff William Daley says the campaign was simply doing "due diligence."


If you wander through the streets of Tehran, you might find that faux McDonald's, or a Pizza Hat.


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