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1:41 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Mexican Bribery Allegations Put Wal-Mart On Defense

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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 4:39 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Lawmakers in the U.S. and Mexico called today for an investigation into Wal-Mart. That's after a damaging story published in The New York Times on Sunday. The Times reported that Wal-Mart's Mexico subsidiary engaged in a massive campaign of bribery, paying more than $24 million to obtain permits to expand its stores across Mexico.

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1:41 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Remembering Bert Weedon, Guitar Teacher To Rock Stars (And Many More)

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British guitarist Bert Weedon died Friday at age 91.

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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 4:39 pm

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1:16 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Cancer Doc Brawley Says The U.S. Health System Is Sick

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Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 6:48 am

Journalists make for a pretty tough crowd.

1:15 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Are Local Salad Greens Safer Than Packaged Salad Greens?

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Miller Farms in Maryland is a family-run operation that sells its home-grown vegetables at farmers' markets and local grocery stores. Phil Miller, whose family owns the farm, says he's trying to earn a food safety certification now required by many food buyers.

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Phil Miller with this year's crop of cabbage at his farm in Clinton, Md.

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Originally published on Tue April 24, 2012 4:23 am

There were lots of comments on this blog regarding my recent stories about making salads safer. Many of those comments argued that the solution is to grow your own. Or at least buy from local farmers.

Which raises an interesting question: Are salad greens from your local farmer's market actually safer than packaged lettuce from thousands of miles away? And should the same safety rules apply to both?

1:13 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Discovery Sparks Interest In Forgotten Black Scholar

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Three years ago, Rufus McDonald found historic documents in an abandoned house and took them to a rare-books dealer. The papers and books belonged to Richard T. Greener, a 19th century intellectual who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University.

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Greener's 1870 Harvard diploma was among the items found.

By Cheryl Corley

Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 4:39 pm

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Three years ago, just moments before sledgehammers ripped through an abandoned home in Chicago, the head of a demolition crew decided to save the contents of an old steamer trunk stored in the attic.

"They were about to demolish it because they couldn't get it down the stairs," says Rufus McDonald, who gathered what was inside the steamer trunk — documents and old books — and took them to a rare-book dealer in Chicago.

"He said, 'Do you know who this is?' I said, 'Nah, who is it?' He said, 'It's Richard Theodore Greener," McDonald recalls. "I said, 'Who is he?' "

12:17 pm

Mon April 23, 2012

Are Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?

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Photographer Tanja Hollander is on a mission to make protraits of all of her Facebook friends.

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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 7:51 am

The new issue of The Atlantic asks: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? The jury's out, though signs point to maybe.

Facebook didn't necessarily make Tanja Hollander lonely, per se, but it did make her curious. It was a little over two years ago when she looked at that number representing "friends," 626 in her case, and started to analyze it.

11:57 am

Mon April 23, 2012

Six Men Ask Judge To Overturn Convictions In Notorious D.C. Murder Case

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In 1985, Chris Turner was convicted of the murder of Catherine Fuller. After spending decades in prison, Turner is now out on parole; he maintains his innocence. He is shown here in his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., about 100 yards away from what was Fuller's home.

By Carrie Johnson

Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 12:29 pm

Six men wearing bright orange prison jumpsuits appeared in a D.C. courtroom today, seeking to overturn their decades-old convictions in a brutal murder by arguing the Justice Department failed to turn over critical evidence that could have helped them assert their innocence.

11:39 am

Mon April 23, 2012

Vatican Reprimand Of U.S. Nuns Divides Faithful

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The Vatican reprimanded America's largest organization of Catholic nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The Holy See charged the LCWR with promoting programs with "radical feminist themes" that are incompatible with doctrine on issues ranging from homosexuality to women's ordination.

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11:24 am

Mon April 23, 2012

Egyptian Elections Complicated By Controversy

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 7:04 am

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NEAL CONAN, HOST:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. In a few weeks, Egyptians vote in a presidential election that many hoped would mark a full transition from military rule. Then the Egyptian Election Commission disqualified 10 candidates, including the two leading Islamists and the former intelligence chief.

11:12 am

Mon April 23, 2012

Trustees Warn Social Security Is Headed Toward Insolvency

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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 1:37 pm

The trustees in charge of nation's Social Security program said a sagging economy has hit the program hard. The program's trust fund, which goes mostly to retirees, said the trustees, will run dry by 2033.

The AP reports "Medicare's finances have stabilized but the program's hospital insurance fund is still projected to run out of money in 2024."

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