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Stories: 1) No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans Relate To Machines 2) Beyond Portlandia: Subaru Drives For America's Heartland 3) How One Man Tried To Slim Down Big Soda From The Inside 4) Watch This: Neil Gaiman's Imaginative Favorites 5) Unbridled Kentuckians Decide It's Time For A Kick-Ass New Slogan 6) A Colorful Anniversary: The Caldecott Medal Turns 75

Stories: 1) A Doctor's Kindness Gives Homeless Inventor A Second Chance 2) 25 Years Strong, 'Phantom Of The Opera' Kills And Kills Again 3) 'Sick And Tired,' Residents In Southern Mexico Defend Themselves 4) Focus On Fracking Diverts Attention From Horizontal Drilling 5) Like Sumo Wrestling, With Lots Of Spit: Camels Tussle In Turkey 6) Oysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made Bounty

Stories: 1) In Paris, A Hunt For Those Who Dodge Dog Duties 2) Spanish Moms Raise School Funds With Pinup Calendar 3) Prosecuting Socrates All Over Again 4) The Composer Who Tested Fighter Planes And Partied With Sinatra 5) Investing In Citizenship: For The Rich, A Road To The U.S. 6) 'Ebony' Editor Began Life Black In Nazi Germany

Stories: 1) Honoring 'Our Will To Live': The Lost Music Of The Holocaust 2) At $17.5 Million A Year, LeBron James Is Underpaid 3) Free Breast Pumps And The Cost Of Health Care 4) Foreign Investors Trade Dollars For U.S. Residency 5) Lives Of Praise, Lives In Progress On 'The Sisterhood' 6) To Fight Addiction, FDA Advisers Endorse Limits On Vicodin

Stories: 1) Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix 2) Female Smokers Face Greater Risk Than Previously Thought 3) The 'True Story' Inside Aaron Neville's Doo-Wop World 4) Research Looks At Starchy Diet's Role In Dogs' Evolution 5) 'Insurgents' Hoped To Change Military From Within 6) Filmmaker Holds Up A Mirror In Interviews With Israel's 'Gatekeepers'

Stories: 1) Painkiller Paradox: Feds Struggle To Control Drugs That Help And Harm 2) Mel Brooks, 'Unhinged' And Loving It 3) Burning Cheese Closes Norwegian Road For Days 4) 'Friends' Will Be There For You At Beijing's Central Perk 5) In 'According To What?' Ai Weiwei Makes Mourning Subversive 6) Fla. Tomato Growers Say Mexico Trade Deal Is Rotten

Stories: 1) Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Hidden Lives 2) 'The Chronic' 20 Years Later: An Audio Document Of The L.A. Riots 3) 'Roe V. Wade' Turns 40, But Abortion Debate Is Even Older 4) Heavy Rotation: 5 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing 5) Growing Pains As Doctors' Offices Adopt Electronic Records 6) Jose James: A Broad-Minded Singer Lets The Beat Build

Stories: 1) WATCH: 'One Today,' An Inaugural Poem 2) In Myanmar, A Hunt For Fabled Cache Of Buried WWII Spitfires 3) To Catch A Marten: Seeking Clues In Olympic National Forest 4) In Kentucky's Coal Country, A Resentment For Obama 5) Aretha Franklin Was Already Famous, But Her Hat-Maker Wasn't 6) Resolute Rhetoric: Obama's Confident Case For Government

Stories: 1) Welcome To Alaska, Where Winter Is Cold And Bikes Are Fat 2) Red Baraat: A Bhangra-Powered Party Starter 3) Former Anti-GMO Activist Says Science Changed His Mind 4) Presidents Use Bully Pulpit To Shape American Language In 'Words' 5) An Inaugural Memory: President Lincoln's Food Fight 6) The Presidential Oath: Not Always Perfect, But It Gets The Job Done

Stories: 1) New Reading Standards Aim To Prep Kids For College — But At What Cost? 2) A Bagpipe-Slinging Spaniard Finds A Home In New York Jazz 3) How Did Tacoma, Wash., Get To Be America's 'Gayest City'? 4) U.K. Asks Students To Learn Poetry 'By Heart,' Not By Rote 5) Jin, 'The Chinese Kid Who Raps,' Grows Up 6) Former Sox Manager Reflects On Turbulent Tenure

Stories: 1) As Social Issues Drive Young From Church, Leaders Try To Keep Them 2) Figuring How To Pay For (Chimp) Retirement 3) CEO Marchionne Drives Chrysler's Dramatic Turnaround 4) In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop? 5) The Manti Te'o Story: Why The News Media Let Its Guard Down 6) UNC To Open Masters Program To Special Forces Medics

Stories: 1) Making Marriage Work When Only One Spouse Believes In God 2) Bad Flu Season Overshadows Other Winter Miseries 3) Learning To Live In The Moment With 'The Dude' 4) Seattle High School's Teachers Toss District's Test 5) On Religion, Some Young People Show Both Doubt And Respect 6) Mental Health Gun Laws Unlikely To Reduce Shootings

Stories: 1) Whole Foods Founder John Mackey On Fascism And 'Conscious Capitalism' 2) After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways To Cope 3) Is Herbalife A Pyramid Scheme? 4) Sick Workers' Dilemma: Stay Home Or Go To Work? 5) Love Of Football May Kick America Down The Path Of Ruination 6) Schedule Of Childhood Vaccines Declared Safe

Stories: 1) More Young People Are Moving Away From Religion, But Why? 2) Hold On To Your Tighty Whities, Captain Underpants Is Back! 3) With Redesigned Corvette, GM Ushers In New Era Of American Sports Car 4) Training Program Aims To Prep Soldiers For Civilian Jobs 5) Sotomayor Memoir: Don't Let A Door Stop You 6) Flu Wave Stresses Out Hospitals

Stories: 1) Losing Our Religion: The Growth Of The 'Nones' 2) Cross-Culture Cilantro Sauce And Other Secrets Of 'Gran Cocina Latina' 3) As Hepatitis C Sneaks Up On Baby Boomers, Treatment Options Grow 4) Women With A Berry-Snacking Habit May Have Healthier Hearts 5) Young Adults Swapping Soda For The Super Buzz Of Coffee 6) Beijing's 'Airpocalypse' Spurs Pollution Controls, Public Pressure