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Tuesday

World

Study: 35 Percent of Iraq Vets Seek Mental Care

A new study shows that 35 percent of troops returning from Iraq are seeking help for mental-health issues. Most of the problems are easily treatable, but more than one in 10 soldiers are diagnosed with a serious mental illness such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety or depression.

Study: 35 Percent of Iraq Vets Seek Mental Care

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Monday

Technology

PalmPilot Creator Models Computer on Brain

Jeff Hawkins created the PalmPilot and Treo smart phone. His new company, Numenta, is developing a type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex, what he calls the "the big wrinkly thing" at the top of the brain. He's also the co-author of the book On Intelligence, which details his vision of how the brain processes information.

PalmPilot Creator Models Computer on Brain

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Friday

Space

Focus on Stars in Search for Earth-Like Worlds

Researchers release a "short list" of stars to target in the search for life elsewhere in the universe. An astronomer discusses how to narrow down the possible universe of star targets to find stars likely to have worlds similar to our own, or even to have life.

Focus on Stars in Search for Earth-Like Worlds

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Thursday

National

Four Indicted in Case of Tissue Theft

Four men are indicted in New York City for allegedly stealing body parts from a Brooklyn funeral home and selling them for transplants. Prosecutors allege that they made millions of dollars by selling tissue samples without permission from the families.

Four Indicted in Case of Tissue Theft

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Wednesday

Himalayan Healing Plants

Saving the Snow Lotus from Extinction

A species of Himalayan snow lotus, a cottony white flower, is used in Tibetan medicine and prized by tourists -- and it's popularity has already knocked four inches off the plant's height and could be leading to its extinction.

Saving the Snow Lotus from Extinction

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Movies

Movie Follows Fish Through the Global Economy

Filmmaker Hubert Sauper talks about his new documentary Darwin's Nightmare with Renee Montagne. The movie has been nominated for an Academy Award. It examines the global economy and its effect on one place and one commodity; in this instance, Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria.

Movie Follows Fish Through the Global Economy

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Tuesday

Law

High Court Agrees to Hear Abortion Case

The Supreme Court says it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion called "partial-birth" abortion by critics. It also agreed to review two crucial environmental cases, and ruled on a case involving a hallucinogenic tea and religious ritual. Hear Madeleine Brand and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick.

High Court Agrees to Hear Abortion Case

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Sunday

Politics

Talent Shifts Stance on Stem-Cell Research

Missouri Republican Sen. Jim Talent, running for re-election his fall, has infuriated supporters by taking his name off a bill to ban cloning. Anti-abortion organizations are fighting an amendment that would protect stem-cell research from being criminalized.

Talent Shifts Stance on Stem-Cell Research

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Himalayan Healing Plants

Breathless Work in the High Himalayas

For the latest NPR/National Geographic Radio Expedition report, Elizabeth Arnold begins a journey to China's eastern Himalayas, near the border with Tibet, to profile a team of scientists studying the link between global warming and disappearing plant life high in the mountains.

Breathless Work in the High Himalayas

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Friday

Wyoming Tests Ability to Change the Weather

Water districts and ski resorts have been seeding clouds for decades trying to increase rain and snowfall. But they've been doing it without proof of how cloud-seeding works and under what conditions it works best. Wyoming hopes to answer some of those questions by taking a closer look at clouds.

Wyoming Tests Ability to Change the Weather

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Thursday

Space

Sitting at Home, Searching for Stardust

Berkeley researchers are seeking volunteers to help identify dust from distant stars swept up by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Using a web-based software program -- a "virtual microscope" -- volunteers will help scan 1.5 million pictures for tracks left by speeding dust.

Sitting at Home, Searching for Stardust

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Wednesday