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One man's fight against deportation; T-Rex may be smarter than we thought : Here & Now Anytime Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. will reach its borrowing limit Thursday. But there are some lessons to be learned from 2011 when the U.S. was hurtling towards a default but narrowly averted it. NPR political correspondent Susan Davis joins us. Then, a Massachusetts man is fighting to stay with his family. Fredly Charles is battling against deportation to Haiti. He's one of two people who can take care care of his daughter who has intensive medical needs. Fredly and his wife Tasha Charles join us. And, the T-Rex has always been seen as enormous and terrifying, but not necessarily smart. A new body of research shows that most of us, and "Jurassic Park" may have gotten some things about the dinosaur's intelligence wrong. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, joins us.

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One man's fight against deportation; T-Rex may be smarter than we thought

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. will reach its borrowing limit Thursday. But there are some lessons to be learned from 2011 when the U.S. was hurtling towards a default but narrowly averted it. NPR political correspondent Susan Davis joins us.

Then, a Massachusetts man is fighting to stay with his family. Fredly Charles is battling against deportation to Haiti. He's one of two people who can take care care of his daughter who has intensive medical needs. Fredly and his wife Tasha Charles join us.

And, the T-Rex has always been seen as enormous and terrifying, but not necessarily smart. A new body of research shows that most of us, and "Jurassic Park" may have gotten some things about the dinosaur's intelligence wrong. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, joins us.

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