Politics
Senate Committee Passes First Of 4 Gun Control Bills
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Friday, March 08, 2013
Environment
Past Century's Global Temperature Change Is Fastest On Record
March 8, 2013 In the past 100 years, average temperatures on Earth have changed by 1.3 degrees. Previously, that large of a swing took 5,000 years. That's the word from researchers who pored over temperature data going back to the end of the last ice age.
StoryCorps
A Real-Life Nick And Nora Charles, Hot On Love's Trail
March 8, 2013 Investigating cheating spouses may not be the most conventional way to fall in love, but for private investigators Shaun Kaufman and Colleen Collins, tailing lovers gone wrong was the best thing that happened to their relationship.
Technology
News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning?
March 8, 2013 The Amplify tablet is specially designed for K-12 classroom interaction. While the company touts the ability to improve teaching and learning, critics have questioned News Corp.'s motives.
Theater
For Berry Gordy, Broadway Is Memory Lane
March 8, 2013 The legendary music that makes up Broadway's upcoming Motown: The Musical offers audible proof that Berry Gordy's Detroit R&B label is the soundtrack of an American generation. But for Gordy, the new project is just the story of that label as he lived through it.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Movies
'Oz,' The Great And Often Imitated
March 7, 2013 Disney's new fillm Oz the Great and Powerful aspires to be a definitive prequel to the Wizard of Oz film of Hollywood legend. But as NPR's Mandalit del Barco explains, L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz has been revisited too many times in global pop culture to have one specific look or feel.
The Papal Succession
Vatican Clamps Down On U.S. Cardinals' Media Briefings
March 7, 2013 At the Vatican, cardinals continue to noodle over when to hold the conclave to choose the next pope. There has been intense global interest in the process, and American cardinals have been at the forefront in briefing reporters and controlling the message. But the Americans have been told to put a lid on it.
