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Tiger At The Masters: The Juncture Of Exhilaration And Peril

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Frank Deford

When Tiger Woods tees off at Augusta National Golf Club this week, he will have overcome injuries and personal scandal. But commentator Frank Deford wonders whether a Masters win for Woods would be a comeback or his way of getting back at his detractors.

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Students at Tenth Street Elementary out on the playground.

L.A. Schools Hire Security Aides To Watch For Threats

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Kirk Siegler

Amid deep budget cuts and layoffs, the nation's second-largest school district is spending $4.5 million to hire 1,000 new aides this year. The superintendent says he'd rather use the money to hire back teachers, but the shootings in Newtown, Conn., led to a change in priorities.

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Health & Safety

Mobile Clinic Looks Out For Detroit's Homeless

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Kyle Norris

A new program in Detroit is targeting chronically homeless people who do not seek out medical help. A mobile medical team visits the homeless on their turf and aggressively follows up with these patients to help get them the medicine and care they need.

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Politics & Government

Immigration Protesters Aim For Rally To Motivate Lawmakers

7:20am April 10, 2013

by David Welna

Thousands of demonstrators backing more generous immigration rules are expected at a big rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday. They're demanding swift action by Congress. But while preliminary agreement has been reached on a range of immigration issues, it could be weeks before a bill appears in the Senate.

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Louisville Cardinals' athletic director Tom Jurich is often cited as the reason the school has become a national athletic powerhouse.

How Louisville Went From 'Little Brother' To Powerhouse

7:34pm April 09, 2013

by Rick Howlett

University of Louisville fans have had a lot to cheer about lately — and not just basketball. Monday's big victory by the school's men's basketball team over Michigan is just the latest success for an athletic department that is quickly becoming one of the country's most admired.

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Elliana Grace Hentoff-Killian is on tour with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show Built to Amaze!

Arts

Catching Up With The World's Youngest Female Cannonball

3:00pm April 09, 2013

by NPR Staff

Elliana Grace Hentoff-Killian grew up in the circus. She mastered her first circus act at 6, when she learned the Spanish web — an aerial act performed on a rope. Now, at 20, she is currently the world's youngest female human cannonball and is touring with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.

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Music & Culture

'Accidental Racist': The Controversy And The Conversation

2:49pm April 09, 2013

"Accidental Racist," the new collaboration between country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J, has set off a firestorm. Paisley sings about the dilemma of balancing Southern pride without projecting a racist attitude. The artists have called the widely-panned tune a conversation-starter.

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A Look Inside White Supremacist Prison Gangs

2:38pm April 09, 2013

Members of white supremacist prison gangs are among the suspects in the killings of law enforcement officials in Texas and Colorado, putting a spotlight on the organization and other prison gangs. The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is known for organizing crimes from inside prison walls.

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More and more starving sea lions are being found stranded on California shores, and animal rehabilitation centers are at their maximum capacity. Experts say there are fewer fish for these mammals to feed on, but they don't know why.

Science

Starving Baby Sea Lions Flood Southern California Shores

9:14am April 09, 2013

by Gloria Hillard

More than 1,000 sick and dying sea lion pups have been found stranded since the beginning of the year, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. As scientists try to figure out why, one animal rescue worker says that in nearly three decades on the job, he's never seen anything like it.

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J.C. Penney CEO Johnson Is Forced Out

9:14am April 09, 2013

by Wendy Kaufman

The retailer recruited Johnson from Apple to revitalize the company but since his arrival 18 months ago, business has only gotten worse. J.C. Penney has brought back Johnson's predecessor Myron Ullman to once again led the struggling retailer.

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