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Stories: 1) In The Wake Of Brazil's Boom, Prices To Match 2) Short And Sweet: Celebrating D.C.'s Cherry Blossoms With Haiku 3) The Tax Code, Translated Into Plain English 4) In NASA's Budget: Plans To 'Shrink-Wrap' An Asteroid 5) The Thatcher Era's Effect On British Music 6) Trains, Punks, Pictures And Books You Maybe Shouldn't Read

Stories: 1) A North Carolina Pie That Elicits An 'Oh My God' Response 2) Painting 'Renoir' In Finely Detailed Strokes 3) How Much Does It Hurt? Let's Scan Your Brain 4) Texas Contractors Say Playing By The Rules Doesn't Pay 5) 'He Saved Hundreds': Army Chaplain Gets Medal Of Honor 6) Whose MP3s Are They, Anyway?

Stories: 1) Debt And The Modern Parent Of College Kids 2) Construction Booming In Texas, But Many Workers Pay Dearly 3) Some Public Defenders Warn: 'We Have Nothing Left To Cut' 4) Study: More Adult Pell Grant Students, Not Enough Graduating 5) El Paso Schools Cheating Scandal: Who's Accountable? 6) Cities Turn Sewage Into 'Black Gold' For Local Farms

Stories: 1) Starving Baby Sea Lions Flood Southern California Shores 2) To Find Insider Trading, Follow The Kids' Money 3) Crowdsourcing Creativity At The Cinema 4) The 'Hard To Change' Legacy Of Medicare Payments 5) 'Way Of The Knife' Explains CIA Shift From Spying To Killing 6) Genetically Modified Rat Is Promising Model For Alzheimer's

Stories: 1) Listen Up To Smarter, Smaller Hearing Aids 2) The Wu-Tang Clan's 20-Year Plan 3) Vermont Finds High-Tech Ways To Sap More Money From Maple Trees 4) J.R.R. Tolkien's Ring On Display At Estate's Exhibit 5) Cursive Club Tries To Keep Handwriting Alive 6) Would Angry Teens Chill Out If They Saw More Happy Faces?

Stories: 1) Why You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At Fermentation 2) After Years Of Struggle, Veteran Chooses To End His Life 3) The River Thames, A Not-So-Secret Treasure Trove 4) Meeting Florida's Seminoles Through Rediscovered Photos 5) Vespers, Habaneras And Early Morning Walks: New Classical Albums 6) Stories Of 'Outside The Wire' Give An Insider's View Of War

Stories: 1) Does Poetry Still Matter? Yes Indeed, Says NPR NewsPoet 2) Roger Ebert: Elegance And Empathy 3) On Broadway, Old Shows And New Tricks 4) Loan Education Becomes Prerequisite As Student Debt Balloons 5) U.S. Parries N. Korean Threats With A Fresh Plan 6) Gin Wigmore: A Brush With James Bond Unveils A Singular Voice

Stories: 1) Jewishness On Display: 'Truth' By Way Of Discomfort 2) Is The Company Behind Rodman's Korea Visit The Future Of Media? 3) Brain Scans Predict Who's Likely To Be A Repeat Offender 4) Without Reviews, Inmates Can Get Lost In U.S. Prison System 5) The Ups And Downs Of Cyber Currency Bitcoin 6) Dialects Changing, But Not Disappearing In Philadelphia

Stories: 1) A Letter On Finding A Husband Before Graduation Spurs Debate 2) Researchers Use Brain Scans To Reveal Hidden Dreamscape 3) 'Kinky Boots' Walk Cyndi Lauper To Broadway 4) New Mortgage Program Helps Cambodia's Poor Find Better Homes 5) Lawyers Join Doctors To Ease Patients' Legal Anxieties 6) Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System

Stories: 1) Tina Brown's Must Reads: Women Vs. The World 2) Baseball Isn't Dead; It Just Takes More Work To Appreciate 3) H-1B Visa Applications As An Economic Indicator 4) In South Jersey, New Options For Primary Care Are Slow To Take Hold 5) The Botched NY Real Estate Deal That Lost 'Other People' Billions 6) This Spring, Rejoice At Rebirth Of 'Mad Men'

Stories: 1) Deciding The Right Time To Claim Social Security 2) When You're Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough 3) New Medical School Wants To Build Ranks Of Primary Care Doctors 4) Back In The Studio, Neko Case Recovers 'That Fire' 5) In Missouri, Days Of Drought Send Caretakers To One 'Big Tree' 6) China's Air Pollution Linked To Millions Of Early Deaths

Stories: 1) Why Not Apologizing Makes You Feel Better 2) 'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style 3) Study Hints Vitamin D Might Help Curb High Blood Pressure 4) Oral History Project Hopes To Preseve Memories Of Navy Dolphins 5) Mining Books To Map Emotions Through A Century 6) Singing The Praises Of Pre-Dawn Walks

Stories: 1) Bridging Arabic And Western Music With An Unusual Instrument 2) Somewhere Over The Brainbow: The Journey To Map the Human Brain 3) Living Memories From The Last Days Of Alcatraz 4) Coming Out: A Gay Mormon Navigates Family, Faith And Sexuality 5) In A New Memoir, Maya Angelou Recalls How A 'Lady' Became 'Mom' 6) Old Newspapers Shed New Light On Emmett Till Murder

Stories: 1) David Sheff On Addiction: Prevention, Treatment And Staying 'Clean' 2) White House Easter Roll Eggs Hatched In Maine 3) The 'Unsinkable' Debbie Reynolds Looks Back On Life, Love And A Boozy Busby Berkeley 4) Humble Gestures Are New Pope's Symbol Of Service 5) In South Africa, A Reggae Legacy Lives On 6) North Korea's Stepped-Up Rhetoric: Is It More Than Talk?

Stories: 1) Number Of Early Childhood Vaccines Not Linked To Autism 2) Homemade Peeps, And More Easter Treats, A La Thomas Keller 3) The Trick To Selling Fancy Wine From New Jersey: Don't Say It's From New Jersey 4) Versailles Gets Spiffed-Up On Its Day Off 5) Thousands Trek To New Mexico Chapel On Good Friday 6) Tiny DNA Switches Aim To Revolutionize 'Cellular' Computing