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World

Tsunami Relief Money Is Slow to Take Effect

It's been 6 months since a tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing a quarter of a million people in a dozen countries. As NPR's Margot Adler reports, the billions of dollars in aid that have poured into those countries is only beginning to make a dent.

Tsunami Relief Money Is Slow to Take Effect

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National

New York Eyes Lowering the Voting Age

A New York City councilwoman introduces a bill to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections. The argument: Teens can drive; they can be punished as adults for serious crimes; they pay sales tax and often income tax -- but have no representation. Some argue that high school students are often better informed than their parents, through social studies classes. No U.S. community has passed such a law yet, but teens have the vote in some cities in several other countries, including Israel, Austria and Germany.

New York Eyes Lowering the Voting Age

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Environment

Chasing Beetles in New York City

The treetops of Central Park in New York City are being used by Western smoke jumpers. The folks whose regular job is to parachute into wildfires are propelling themselves into maples and elms in an attempt to stop the killer Asian longhorned beetle.

Chasing Beetles in New York City

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New York Corrects Restroom Disparity

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs the Women's Restroom Equity Act. It aims to bring potty parity to city bars, sports arenas, movie theaters and similar venues by mandating that they maintain two women's bathroom stalls for every one allotted to men.

New York Corrects Restroom Disparity

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Education

Growth Spurt: The Rise of Tutoring in America

Tutoring is a $4 billion business, and that figure is going up. Once an upper-class phenomenon, tutoring is spreading, thanks to competitive pressures and the No Child Left Behind law. And some children even find the extra lessons enjoyable.

Growth Spurt: The Rise of Tutoring in America

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Art & Design

A Traveling Photographer's Nomadic Museum

Photographer and filmmaker Gregory Colbert has traveled the world photographing encounters between humans and large animals. His exhibit "Ashes and Snow" has found a similarly distinctive display area. The Nomadic Museum, now in Manhattan, is designed to be portable.

A Traveling Photographer's Nomadic Museum

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Obituaries

Educator Kenneth Clark and His Fight for Integration

Social scientist and educator Kenneth Clark died Sunday in New York at age 90. Clark and his wife Mamie were the originators of the famous doll studies on the harmful effects of racism on black children, cited in the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregation in public schools.

Educator Kenneth Clark and His Fight for Integration

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School Features Real-World Learning, No Grades

It's hard to imagine a school with no tests, no grades and no classes. But those familiar elements of education are missing at two dozen Big Picture schools in six states. Margot Adler visits one called The Met, the 10-year-old model for the schools, in Providence, R.I.

School Features Real-World Learning, No Grades

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National

Photographers Help Foster Children Find Homes

New Jersey has become the latest state to recruit renowned photographers to take pictures of foster children available for adoption. Known as a Heart Gallery, the idea is to get the pictures out into the world with the hope that a loving family will respond.

Photographers Help Foster Children Find Homes

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Health

Tailoring Medical School to Cultural Difference

Medical residents at Columbia University Medical Center in New York are learning all about the surrounding community of Dominicans and other Latinos by visiting their homes, bodegas and botanicas. It's part of a growing movement in medical schools to teach young doctors how to understand patients who come from a different culture.

Tailoring Medical School to Cultural Difference

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Christo's 'Gates' Open in Central Park

Christo Does Central Park

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude debut "The Gates" in Manhattan's Central Park today. More than 20 years in the making, the large-scale art project consists of 7,500 large saffron cloth panels hanging in 16-foot high door frames.

Christo Does Central Park

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Media

Newspaper Hawkers Return to New York Streets

Read all about it: newspaper hawkers, those familiar relics of another era, are back on New York City street corners. This time, the "newsies" are pushing free newspapers aimed at young adults who get most of their news from TV or the Web.

Newspaper Hawkers Return to New York Streets

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