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Movie Interviews
2:45 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

In 'Barbara,' A New Look At Life Behind The Wall

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Barbara shows a quiet, restrained normalcy in the former East Germany.
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In a move for historical accuracy, recent German films like Christian Petzold's Barbara show a colorful, living version of communist East Germany. (Pictured: Nina Hoss as Barbara and Ronald Zehrfeld as Andre).
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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 3:21 pm

The historical drama is a staple of the film awards season, and the tortured history of modern Germany — with its echoes of the brutal Third Reich and war — has played a central role in many an award-winning film. But the new film Barbara, which was Germany's official entry to this year's Oscars, is a nuanced portrait of the more recent history of a newly reunited East and West.

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Superstorm Sandy: Before, During And Beyond
2:38 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Superstorm Sandy Victims Resettle Thanks To Small Town's Efforts

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Deborah Rassi, 59, cleans her new kitchen. She's holding a bag of donated clothing, one of many that volunteers left in the new mobile home.
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Robert Rassi, 67, in his family's kitchen. After losing everything when their Staten Island home flooded during Sandy, they can live here rent-free for one year.
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This brand-new neighborhood of mobile homes in New Milford, Conn., is home to 13 families from New York who relocated after Superstorm Sandy. They've agreed to move out after a year, and will have a chance to buy the mobile homes afterward.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 4:11 pm

Thousands of Superstorm Sandy victims are still displaced more than two months after the storm. So, some locals in Connecticut hatched a plan to relocate some of them to a brand-new neighborhood with homes of their own.

Deborah Rassi and her family from Staten Island, N.Y., have been in the small, rural town of New Milford, Conn., for three days.

She was happy to be unpacking at her brand-new mobile house, which came with bags of donated clothing.

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Shots - Health News
2:30 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Businesses Sue Government Over Birth Control Mandate

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The Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores has gone to court to block a provision of the administration's health law that requires employers' health plans to pay for contraceptives.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 6:07 pm

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, few would have predicted that one of the most contentious provisions would have to do with contraception.

But today federal officials are grappling with more than 40 lawsuits claiming that the requirement for most health plans to provide contraceptive coverage to women violates their religious freedom.

And religious groups aren't the only ones going to court.

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The Two-Way
2:22 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Former Marine Who Shot At The Pentagon Sentenced To 25 Years

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Yonathan Melaku, the former Marine who admitting to shooting at several U.S. military buildings in the Washington, D.C., area in 2010, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, in a plea deal that makes his sentence non-negotiable. After his arrest, Melaku was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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Shots - Health News
2:19 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Despite Billions In Aid, Many Haitians Still Live In Squalid Camps

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Jacqueline Syra has been living in the La Piste camp for three years. She says she has no idea when she will be able to leave.
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Construction workers overlook the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville, where an 18-unit complex is slated to go up this year. Despite billions of dollars in international donations for earthquake relief, only about 5,000 permanent houses have been built.
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The 16/6 project, funded by the Haitian government, was initially intended to allow the closure of six relocation camps and return nearly 5,000 families to 16 neighborhoods. But construction has been extremely slow in the three years following the devastating earthquake.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she described as an "awful" camp in PeŽtionville. A rental subsidy program helped her move out, but she ended up homeless again when the money ran out. She now lives in a room owned by her sister.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some people have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work.
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Workers finish the cement walls on a multilevel building in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville. They plan to finish the 18-unit housing facility in 2013.
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A man measures a completed section of a retaining wall at a construction site in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) stands in her makeshift shack with her 2-year-old son, Sebastian, in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. This area was home to many people living in the camps around the national palace. Louissaint received a rental subsidy last year to move.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) and Beatrice Rochelain are neighbors in the Fort National neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. Many people who received cash and subsidies to move out of the camps have returned to the area.
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A man works on his steel gate outside of his ramshackle house near Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince.
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A boy stands on a pile of rocks used for the construction of new homes in the hills overlooking Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince. Squatters are streaming into the area and setting up communities, with little government oversight.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some residents have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work or even hope to leave.
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This flimsy three-story house, which was rebuilt after the earthquake in January 2010, will have to be demolished to make way for an 18-unit housing project. Many homes that were rebuilt after the quake are even more dangerous than the original ones.
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Clement Belizaire directs relocation and rehabilitation in Haiti's reconstruction program.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she calls an "awful" camp in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. A rental subsidy program helped her to move out temporarily.
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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 7:06 am

Saturday marks the third anniversary of the powerful earthquake that destroyed much of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake killed roughly 200,000 people and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.

Despite billions of dollars in international aid and pledges to help Haiti rebuild from the disaster, very little new, permanent housing has been built. And about 350,000 Haitians are still living in squalid, makeshift camps — where they face an array of health challenges.

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It's All Politics
2:07 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Rockefeller's Exit May Test How Deep The Red Runs In W.Va.

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., announced Friday that he won't seek re-election in 2014 and will retire after having served 30 years in the Senate.
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By Greg Henderson

The announcement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., that he will not seek a sixth term in 2014, would seem to give Republicans a big opening in a state that has gone deep red in recent presidential elections.

But West Virginia's animus toward recent Democrats in the White House, especially President Obama, doesn't necessarily translate into Republican advantages in statewide races.

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The Two-Way
1:36 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Spike That Email About Welfare And Work; Fact-Checkers Say It's Not True

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If this arrives in your inbox, fact checkers advise just hitting delete.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 4:58 pm

If you've gotten the "Death Spiral" email that's apparently been arriving in many inboxes, here's the verdict from two major, nonpartisan fact checkers:

It is NOT true, as the email claims, that in 11 states there are more people on welfare than there are working.

The debunkers: both PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org.

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The Two-Way
1:28 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Computer Users Should Disable Java 7 Due To Security Flaw, Experts Say

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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 3:43 pm

Millions of computer users who run the most recent versions of Oracle's Java software should disable the product owing to security flaws, says the cybersecurity section of the Department of Homeland Security. The agency says, "Web browsers using the Java 7 plug-in are at high risk."

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World
12:46 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Juarez Priest Finds 'Hand Of God In The Midst Of Mayhem'

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Father Kevin Mullins' parish, the Comunidad Catolica de Corpus Christi near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is located at the epicenter of the country's drug cartel war. After years of violence, murders are down and the city's shuttered shops and cafes are beginning to reopen.
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Although fearful of the violence in Juarez, Australian-born Mullins says he stayed to bear witness to the suffering in his parish.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 4:11 pm

Father Kevin Mullins steers his old Chevy pickup up a steep road to a hilltop dominated by a large statue of the virgin. She has a commanding view of this troubled corner of Christendom.

Here, the states of Texas, New Mexico and and Chihuahua, Mexico, intersect amid barren hills freckled with ocotillo plants and greasewood.

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The Salt
12:24 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

In The Battle Between Health And Taste, Why White Bread Still Wins

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White bread, we just can't quit you.
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Originally published on Wed January 16, 2013 6:59 am

The tantalizing aroma of freshly baked brioche is hard to resist, while a virtuous loaf of whole wheat often lacks that same allure. Blame it on the ferulic acid.

See, whole-wheat bread contains all parts of the wheat, including the bran, but white bread does not. That bran in the wheat bread contains the aforementioned ferulic acid, which overrides the compounds that give white bread its mouthwatering smell, according to new research.

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