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Stories: 1) Cases Of Mysterious Valley Fever Rise In American Southwest 2) Why You Should Give A $*%! About Words That Offend 3) Covering Pop Hits On YouTube Is Starting To Pay 4) Google Fights Glass Backlash Before It Even Hits The Street 5) When The Right One Comes Along: How 'Nashville' Tells Stories In Song 6) Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa

Stories: 1) For Year-Round Buzz, Beekeepers 'Fast-Forward Darwinism' 2) C-Sections Deliver Cachet For Wealthy Brazilian Women 3) Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation 4) New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies 5) For Amy Grant, Beauty And Tragedy Give Way To 'Mercy' 6) The MIDI Revolution: Synthesizing Music For The Masses

Stories: 1) Tiny Mites Spark Big Battle Over Imports Of French Cheese 2) Mini-Memoirs: 6-Word Stories To Honor Mom 3) Mom's X-Ray Vision Also Sees The Best In Us 4) Yngwie Malmsteen: 'I've Always Been A Little Bit Of An Extremist' 5) James Cotton: 'The Voice Is Gone, But The Wind Is Still There' 6) Frozen Lakes Cut Into Minnesota Fishing Tradition

Stories: 1) What Does 'Sexual Coercion' Say About A Society? 2) College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists 3) Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other 4) Why (Almost) No One In Myanmar Wanted My Money 5) 'Dangerous Territory': Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Milestone 6) On 'Hicksploitation' And Other White Stereotypes Seen On TV

Stories: 1) I Know I'm Supposed To Follow My Passion. But What If I Don't Have A Passion? 2) From Mother To Daughter On 'Having It All' 3) Perry's Vision For University Of Texas Criticized 4) Stitching Connections Between U.S. Fashion Designers, Makers 5) California Weighs Expanded Role For Nurse Practitioners 6) Furloughs Only The Latest Blow To Federal Worker Morale

Stories: 1) In France, A Renewed Push To Return Art Looted By Nazis 2) Why Bill Gates Thinks Ending Polio Is Worth It 3) On Two New R&B Albums, An Old Soul Sound That Glows 4) Push To End Teens' Distracted Driving Targets Parents, Peers 5) Government Data Reveals Wild Disparity In Health Care Costs 6) Fitzgerald Might Disagree With His 'No Second Acts' Line

Stories: 1) Parents' Saliva On Pacifiers Could Ward Off Baby's Allergies 2) Girls May Get More 'Teaching Time' From Parents Than Boys Do 3) Chicago's Famed Field Museum Struggles To Dig Out Of A Hole 4) A Picture Postcard From Wild Wrangel Island 5) Port Of Baltimore Seeks Boost From Panama Canal Expansion 6) 'Bertha' Does The Heavy Lifting In Seattle Tunnel Project

Stories: 1) How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space 2) Foreigners At Home: Turkey Beckons To Germany's Turks 3) How To Dip Without Breaking The Chip 4) Violence, Hardship Fuels Central American Immigration To U.S. 5) For The Austin Lounge Lizards, Weirdness Is A Virtue 6) A Splash Of 'Urban Ocean' On A Southern California Cruise

Stories: 1) Please Don't Delete This Interview About Spam 2) 'Fat' Dad Jim Gaffigan On Kids, Comedy And Apartment Living 3) World War II Code Is Broken, Decades After POW Used It 4) Three-Minute Fiction Round 11: Finders Keepers 5) A 'Decadent And Depraved' Derby With Hunter S. Thompson 6) 'The Great Gatsby': Retold Again, With A Distinct Treatment

Stories: 1) Hey Teenagers! We Want To Hear Your Stories 2) Chef Edward Lee Adds Korean Spice To Southern Comfort Food 3) John Bogle's Latest Advice: A 'Gatekeeper' For Your Nest Egg 4) Why Lobbying Is Now Increasingly In The Shadows 5) Justice In The Segregated South: A New Look At An Old Killing 6) The Beyonce Experiment: How Far Can She Go?

Stories: 1) Imagine A Flying Pig: How Words Take Shape In The Brain 2) This Little Piggy Cookie Is A Sweet Mexican Find 3) Lady Mechanic Initiative Trains Women For 'The Best Job' 4) Iggy Pop: 'What Happens When People Disappear' 5) A Rhodes-Like Scholarship For Study In China 6) Rapper Chris Kelly, Half Of Duo Kris Kross, Dies

Stories: 1) A Sleep Gene Has A Surprising Role In Migraines 2) For A Black Doctor, Building Trust By Slowing Down 3) How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap 4) Don't Miss The Premiere Of The World's Smallest Movie 5) Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Turn Up Again In Turkey Meat 6) Mother And Daughter Injured In Boston Bombing Face New Future

Stories: 1) He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct 2) When It Comes To Productivity, Technology Can Hurt And Help 3) 'Wonderful Words' In Willa Cather's No-Longer-Secret Letters 4) Vibrant 'Club' Links Two Countries In Award-Winning Book 5) Brazilians Keep World Cup Hopes In Check Amid Complications 6) As Youth Crime Spikes, Brazil Struggles For Answers

Stories: 1) How To Turn Down The Heat On Fiery Family Arguments 2) Shhh, The Kids Can Hear You Arguing (Even When They're Asleep) 3) Big Sibling's Big Influence: Some Behaviors Run In The Family 4) How One Family Built America's Public Palaces 5) Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers 6) With Or Without Overhaul, Immigration Lawyers In Short Supply

Stories: 1) Michael Bublé On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune 2) Teen Sexual Assault: Where Does The Conversation Start? 3) Unfinished FEMA Flood Maps Put Sandy Victims In Limbo 4) When Sculpting Cedar, This Artist Is Tireless And Unsentimental 5) New Cuban Sounds Rooted In Tradition From 'Global Village' 6) For Some Young Latinos: Donkey Jaws And Latino Roots