Animals’ bodies are complicated – and they can accomplish amazing feats.
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Reporting From The Trenches
What drives journalists to leave their families and risk their lives to tell the stories of war? NPR’s Kelly McEvers, who worked for NPR as a correspondent in the Middle East during one of the deadliest years on record for journalists, wanted to know.
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The Crowd To Come
With an already taxed environment, how will our planet handle ten billion people?
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The Smartest Kids In The World, And Why
Why are America’s public school students lagging behind those in other countries?
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Dallas, Lights, Etc.
With the Omni hotel’s rib-patterned LED façade, the blue glow of the Statler Hotel and plans to revise the Bank of America building’s green-lit trim, downtown Dallas is re-dressing itself in creative lighting.
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A Better Way Of Death
When debilitating disease and emotional fatigue leave aging parents asking to die, how do their adult children cope?
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Sleuthing The Central Bank
What role did the Federal Reserve play in causing the Great Recession?
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Violence and Vigilantism In The South
How did lynching become accepted, much less celebrated, in the same communities where we now live?
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November 22, 1963
Hugh Aynesworth wasn’t assigned to cover the Dallas visit of President John F. Kennedy. But the ‘Dallas Morning News’ reporter, then 32, saw the president’s assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest and the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby.
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The Science Of Selflessness
Does every person carry the potential to become a hero?
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Matching The Outside To The Inside
How do people cope when their personal gender identity does not match the body they were born with?
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JFK Sites In Dallas
How did the city transform the place where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago into a monument to his memory?
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