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No Easy Answers For DUI Concerns As Marijuana Gains Support

A customer smells a strain of marijuana while being helped by employee Billy Archilla inside the retail marijuana shop at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver. Brennan Linsley/AP hide caption

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With Support For Marijuana, Concern Over Driving High Grows

As more states legalize pot for medical and recreational use, law enforcement and health officials want to deter driving under the influence. But the task isn't as clear cut as it is with alcohol.

Explorers' Aim For Perilous Polar Trek: 'Get Home In One Piece'

Ben Saunders and Tarka L'Herpiniere trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, breaking the record for the longest polar journey on foot. The Scott Expedition hide caption

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The Scott Expedition

Science

Explorers' Aim For Perilous Polar Trek: 'Get Home In One Piece'

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Explorers' Aim For Perilous Polar Trek: 'Get Home In One Piece'

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No Easy Answers For DUI Concerns As Marijuana Gains Support

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No Easy Answers For DUI Concerns As Marijuana Gains Support

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No Easy Answers For DUI Concerns As Marijuana Gains Support

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'Cut Me Loose': After Exile, A Young Woman's Journey In 'Sin'

Leah Vincent is a board member of Footsteps and co-producer of the It Gets Besser project, both of which help support people who have decided to leave ultra-Orthodoxy. Ned & Aya Rosen/Leah Vincent hide caption

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'Cut Me Loose': After Exile, A Young Woman's Journey In 'Sin'

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'Cut Me Loose': After Exile, A Young Woman's Journey In 'Sin'

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St. Vincent's Eerie Musical Alchemy

St. Vincent is the fourth solo album from singer and guitarist Annie Clark. Renata Raksha/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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St. Vincent's Eerie Musical Alchemy

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St. Vincent's Eerie Musical Alchemy

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