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Feds Probe If Student Athletes Were Biogenesis Clients

12:06pm August 09, 2013

Alex Rodriguez and the other athletes sanctioned by Major League Baseball are alleged to have received performance enhancing drugs from the now closed Miami clinic Biogenesis. ESPN and other news organizations are reporting the clinic also had high school athletes as patients. David Greene talks to investigative reporter Mike Fish of ESPN about student athletes and performance enhancing drugs.

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Astronaut Among Presidential Medal Of Freedom Winners

12:06pm August 09, 2013

Astronaut Sally Ride has served as a role model for young women as the first American woman in space. It's for that reason she's one of the 16 people named as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ride will receive the award posthumously — she died last year at the age of 61.

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Michigan Family Welcomes 12th Child

12:06pm August 09, 2013

Jay and Teri Schwandt just had their 12th child — and it's boy just like his 11 brothers. Little Tucker was nine days late, so they thought he might be a girl. Teri's sister has 10 children - they're all boys.

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Kansas City Sandwich Is A 'Hit' With Baseball Teams

12:06pm August 09, 2013

Oklahoma Joe's barbecue is a popular spot in Kansas City — especially known for its Z-Man sandwich. The Minnesota Twins ordered 50 Z-Mans on Tuesday, and went on to beat the hometown Royals in a blowout. The next day Oklahoma Joes sent 51 Z-Mans to the Royals. It worked. They beat the Twins 5-2.

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Though you'd never see it listed on your monthly cable bill, nearly every channel you get has a secret price.

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The History — And Future — Of Cable's Bundling

6:13pm August 08, 2013

by Dan Bobkoff

For Time Warner Cable customers in major cities, the battle for the future of television is playing out before their eyes as CBS and the cable giant fight over fees. You might not realize it, but between a third and half of your cable bill goes directly to pay for channels like CBS or ESPN.

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More than 40 years ago, the EPA banned oil companies from releasing wastewater into the environment, but made an exception for the arid West. If livestock and wildlife can use the water, companies can release it. Cows like these grazing near a stream of w

EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming

10:16am August 08, 2013

by Elizabeth Shogren

The environmental agency has proposed permits that would allow oil companies to continue releasing contaminated wastewater onto the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. NPR found last year that the EPA has been allowing oil companies to send so much wastewater onto dry land that it was creating raging streams.

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Republicans And Democrats Get Behind 'Voices For Yes'

6:54am August 08, 2013

Political strategists on both sides of the isle are working to get the progressive rock band Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Rain Pounds Missouri Town, Floods Rivers

6:43am August 08, 2013

In Missouri, several communities have been ravaged by flooding. Among the hardest hit has been Waynesville. The town of about 5,000 people has been hit by rain storms — including some 7 inches on Tuesday, and another 6 inches Wednesday. Nearby rivers and creeks have overflowed.

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Ted Andrews, CEO of HerbCo International, says the H-2A agricultural guest worker program needs improvements.

After Immigration Bust, Herb Grower Tries A New Path

10:58pm August 07, 2013

by Liz Jones

One of the nation's largest herb producers once relied heavily on undocumented labor, but has learned some hard lessons since an immigration crackdown. He says transitioning to a legal workforce was well worth it, but that navigating a cumbersome foreign worker program has been challenging.

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Patty Stonesifer once watched Martha's Table serve food to the homeless outside the Washington, D.C., offices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. When the top post at the charity came open, she knew it was the job for her.

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For One-Time Tech Exec, Leading D.C. Charity Is No Small Job

6:43pm August 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

Patty Stonesifer once held a top spot at Microsoft. After that, she spent years at the helm of philanthropy giant the Gates Foundation. But this year, Stonesifer downsized. She's taken on a smaller-scale role as CEO of Martha's Table, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that serves the poor.

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