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  • Piers Morgan Shown The Door, While CNN Weighs Its Next Step
    CNN has announced that it is canceling the show of its primetime host, Piers Morgan. A former British tabloid editor and reality show judge, Morgan was named three years ago to replace Larry King.
  • Actress Alfre Woodard On Truthful Storytelling In '12 Years A Slave'
    12 Years a Slave won Best Picture at the Oscars last night. In this encore broadcast, host Michel Martin speaks with actress Alfre Woodard about her work in the film.
  • Historian John Barry pushed a lawsuit alleging that oil and gas companies destroyed land that once served as a buffer protecting New Orleans from hurricanes.
    As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay
    A flood protection authority is suing to try to hold the oil and gas industries responsible for Louisiana's land crisis. But policymakers are trying to stop the lawsuit, saying it's bad for business.
  • Sounds good, looks great: Radio Cabinetry
    As the popularity of radio increased, the household radio evolved into more than just a technological wonder. It became a part of day to day life. It was…
  • High school senior Pat Cordova-Goff would be allowed to use the girls' bathroom under a California law slated to go into effect next year. The law's critics call it the "co-ed bathroom bill."
    Religious Groups Challenge Calif. Transgender Law Over Privacy
    Opponents of a new California law that aims to accommodate transgender students say they've gathered enough signatures to try to overturn it on next year's ballot. The law allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and join the sports teams that match their gender identity.
  • The British National Archives has digitized and posted online about 1.5 million pages of diaries from soldiers and units that fought in World War I. Here, a photo of the 12th (Prince of Wales') Lancers Group.
    From The Trenches To The Web: British WWI Diaries Digitized
    The British National Archives is posting 1.5 million pages of World War I diaries online. The personal accounts provide new insight into the lives of the troops who fought the war that began 100 years ago. "Everywhere the same hard, grim, pitiless sight of battle and war," reads one entry.
  • Yankees Spend Big On Masahiro Tanaka
    The Yankees signed the Japanese superstar pitcher this week for a whopping $155 million. NPR's Rachel Martin talks sports with sports correspondent Mike Pesca about what that means for the Bronx Bombers' bottom line.
  • Grammy Show: Light On Awards, Heavy On Entertainment
    Over the years, the Grammy awards have become less and less about music and more about an entertainment spectacle. The nominations were even announced on an hour-long TV show on a Friday night.
  • A boat skims through the melting ice in the Ilulissat fjord in August 2008, on the western coast of Greenland.
    Entrepreneurs Looking For 'Windfall' Cash In On Climate Change
    A new book explores the ways melting Arctic ice yield new shipping channels, new oil and gas resources — and potential profits. Journalist McKenzie Funk delves into the "booming business of global warming" in Windfall.
  • Rube Goldberg drew many of his devices for his series, "The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K," published in Colliers magazine between 1929 and 1931.
    Lovebirds + String + Watering Can + Dog = Rube Goldberg Magic
    The term "Rube Goldberg machine" has become shorthand for a convoluted contraption made up of a series of chain reactions. But Goldberg was also a real person, whose ideas for whimsical devices have captivated imaginations for decades.
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