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Keep It Brief, Commencement Speakers! No One Will Remember Anyway

7:03pm April 13, 2014

by NPR Staff

Former college President Hal Wilde has endured dozens of graduation ceremonies. He says procuring the speaker was one of his most annoying tasks. And for what? Students rarely remember the message.

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School Lunch: Any Chicken In Those 'Food-Like Nubbins'?

1:26pm April 12, 2014

It took a Freedom of Information Act to get the Chicago Public Schools to disclose what's in the chicken nuggets they serve in their cafeterias. NPR's Scott Simon reveals the chemical contents.

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Long before he was president, Lyndon Johnson taught in Cotulla, Texas. He is pictured here with students in 1928.

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LBJ Carried Poor Texas Town With Him In Civil Rights Fight

1:34am April 12, 2014

by Melissa Block

Lyndon Johnson taught in the South Texas town of Cotulla in 1928. Even as president, he always remembered the grinding poverty of his students.

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GM Recall Distrust Trickles Down To Dealers

8:13pm April 11, 2014

by Brian Bull

The General Motors recall puts its dealerships in an uncomfortable spot, having to placate customers as both parties wait for replacement parts to arrive. Brian Bull of WCPN reports that many are reconsidering whether they'll ever buy a GM car again.

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Utah Gay Marriage Gets Hearing In Appeals Court

8:12pm April 10, 2014

by NPR Staff

Same-sex marriage went before an appeals court in Utah on Thursday. It's the first federal appellate court to hear a marriage case after the 2013 marriage equality decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court. Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee was in the courtroom for the hearing.

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For Albuquerque PD, A Searing Rebuke From Justice Department

8:12pm April 10, 2014

by Ted Robbins

The Albuquerque Police Department has engaged in excessive force and unreasonable deadly force, according to a civil rights investigation by the Department of Justice.

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The Heartbleed bug has exposed up to two-thirds of the Internet to a security vulnerability.

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What To Do Now That The Heartbleed Bug Exposed The Internet

11:27am April 10, 2014

by Elise Hu

As companies scramble to patch a bug that exposed much of the Internet for two years, you can protect yourself by practicing some good Web hygiene.

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Live tilapia raised by Blue Ridge Aquaculture are loaded into a truck bound for New York.

The Future Of Clean, Green Fish Farming Could Be Indoor Factories

8:17am April 10, 2014

by Dan Charles

Aquaculture in the U.S. has lagged because of opposition from environmentalists and people living on the coast. But entrepreneurs say they've found a way to produce fish on land with little pollution.

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With Proposed Mega-Merger On The Hill, Spotlight's On Consumers

6:48pm April 09, 2014

by Jim Zarroli

Comcast and Time Warner executives ran into stiff opposition as they pitched their proposed merger to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The deal would give the combined company a large share of both pay TV and broadband internet service markets. In both cases, lawmakers wanted to know how consumers would be affected.

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In Some American Towns, The Billboards Will Have Sirens

6:48pm April 09, 2014

by Mike Moen

Some fire departments are putting ads on fire trucks in order to bring in extra revenue. While it may help with ailing finances, Mike Moen of WNIJ reports, some worry it will create an image problem.

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