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Many Egyptians believe Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister to be corrupt. Yet Ahmed Shafiq, who is running for president in Egypt’s historic elections this month, has climbed to second in opinion polls. Experts say his growing popularity highlights many Egyptians’ desires for stability, which, as NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports, is something they believe the retired Air Force general can provide.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/153132096/egyptian-candidate-gains-support-despite-reputation?ft=1&f=1004

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Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal
Trayvon Martin. Voter ID laws. Color-conscious college admissions policies heading for the Supreme Court again. It seems like a good time to check in with Abigail Thernstrom, a reliable fount of honesty and uncommon sense on matters racial."Did you hear [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder the other day say how much he loves Al Sharpton?" she asks as we park ourselves at the breakfast table in the suburban Washington, D.C., home that she shares with her husband and sometime collaborator Stephan Thernstrom, a Harvard historian. "This is a very poisonous message. The black…

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/20/the_good_news_about_race_in_america_280327.html

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Reporting in Nature, researchers write that two individuals, both paralyzed by stroke, made reach-and-grasp movements using a thought-controlled robotic arm. One participant was even able to a sip a drink by herself. Neuroengineer Dr. Leigh Hochberg discusses the paper and the ongoing trial.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153015273/stroke-victims-think-robotic-arm-acts?ft=1&f=1007

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The former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland, bombing has died, according to reports. He was 59.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/20/153133752/reports-lockerbie-bomber-dies?ft=1&f=1004

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A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too “explicitly partisan.”

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In a new Mitt Romney ad, his image makers try to level the distance between the Republican and the incumbent president by referring three times to “President Romney.”

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Tamae Watanabe, 73, reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain this morning. The last time she was crowned the oldest woman to climb Everest was 10 years ago.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/19/153076260/oldest-woman-to-summit-everest-breaks-record-a-second-time?ft=1&f=1004

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Katie Beckett died Friday morning in the same hospital where she’d once made history. Beckett was 3 years old when her case changed health care law. She was 34 when she died. NPR’s Joseph Shapiro explains why she was important to other children with disabilities.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153076971/katie-beckett-leaves-legacy-for-kids-with-disabilities?ft=1&f=1003

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The 137th running of the Preakness takes place Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another is vying for the second jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown. The horse, his trainer and his owner all hail from Southern California, and NPR’S Carrie Kahn reports hopes are high that a big win will give a much-needed boost to horse racing in the Golden State.

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Mark Steyn, OC Register
"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."So the lunatic theory that Barack Obama doesn't meet the minimum eligibility requirements to be president of the United States was first advanced by Barack Obama's official representative. Where did she get that wacky idea from? "This was nothing more than a fact-checking error by me," says Obama's literary agent, Miriam Goderich, a "fact" that went so un-"checked" that it stayed up on her agency's…

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/19/eternally_shifting_sands_of_obama039s_biography_280293.html

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Jim Treacher, The Daily Caller
Unless you’re a credulous rube, it sure does look like Obama told his literary agency that he was born in Kenya for some reason. And the false information wasn’t corrected until April 2007, a couple of months after he launched his presidential campaign. “But wait,” you protest. “How do you know Obama wrote that? How do you know he ever even saw it? Shut up!” Well, we all know that Obama is the exception to every rule, so maybe he’s the exception to this one too. Author and television producer Steve Boman writes at…

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/19/was_obama039s_bio_a_quotfact-checkingquot_error_280320.html

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Clarence Birdseye’s life as a taxidermist, fur trader, hunter, and fish lobbyist all led to his creation of the modern frozen food industry. His inventions made frozen food tastier and more widely available to consumers.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/18/152743718/clarence-birdseye-and-his-fantastic-frozen-food-machine?ft=1&f=1007

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New French President Francois Hollande visited President Obama at this White House on Friday afternoon. The two leaders will also travel to Camp David for the G-8 economic summit.

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We may romanticize that strawberries are grown down the road, but most of them come from California. And a complex web of plant cloning practices, relocation and fumigation has cropped up to keep it that way. Although scientists are exploring new options, like soil-free growing.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/17/152522900/the-secret-life-of-californias-world-class-strawberries?ft=1&f=1007

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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his family have been cleared to leave China and travel to the U.S. They are scheduled to land in Newark, N.J., on Saturday afternoon. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR’s Frank Langfitt about the latest developments.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153076967/chen-guangcheng-flies-to-u-s?ft=1&f=1004

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Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to their home of eight years for the unveiling of their official portraits.

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Hundreds of Turkish women die each year at the hands of men, often their husband or a family member, and many more are routinely abused. Activists say the police and legal response has been dismal. One group has issued a controversial proposal: arming at-risk women and training them in self-defense.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153034830/in-turkey-debating-a-womens-right-to-bear-arms?ft=1&f=1004

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Life can become a whole lot happier for trainer Doug O’Neill if Derby winner I’ll Have Another wins the Preakness. A victory over 8-5 morning-line favorite Bodemeister and nine other rivals would set up a Triple Crown attempt in the Belmont Stakes.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153050225/preakness-will-ill-have-another-take-another-win?ft=1&f=1003

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Life can become a whole lot happier for trainer Doug O’Neill if Derby winner I’ll Have Another wins the Preakness. A victory over 8-5 morning-line favorite Bodemeister and nine other rivals would set up a Triple Crown attempt in the Belmont Stakes.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153050225/preakness-will-ill-have-another-take-another-win?ft=1&f=1003

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Astrophysicist Adam Frank says that private rocket ships will launch a sure future for Americans.

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Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change of views.No talk about rights, just human fellow feeling. Such an argument is attractive because it can be compelling without being compulsory. Many people, feeling the weight of this longing among their gay friends, are willing to redefine marriage for the sake of simple human sympathy.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/obama039s_gay_marriage_contradiction_280196.html

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It’s a good time to brew beer in America. According to beer expert Julia Herz, U.S. brewing isn’t just on the upswing, it’s on top. “We’re now the No. 1 destination for beer, based on diversity and amount of beers,” she says. And the industry’s fastest growth is in craft breweries.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/17/152958268/u-s-craft-beer-brewers-thrive-despite-small-share-of-the-market?ft=1&f=1003

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The NATO summit in Chicago is meant to showcase a unified, long-term commitment to Afghanistan after the 2014 troop drawdown. The U.S. already signed a strategic security pact with Afghanistan, pledging support for the country until 2024. The Obama administration is looking for other nations to commit as well during the summit.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/152979177/nato-summit-to-reaffirm-afghan-commitment?ft=1&f=1004

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What happens when two books with similar names are out at the same time? Well, when one is historical fiction set in Lithuania and the other an S&M novel that’s ripping up the best-sellers list, some interesting teachable moments.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152778559/two-gray-titles-one-sexy-mix-up?ft=1&f=1057

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Tim Stanley, Telegraph
Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be surprised.The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has…

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/18/the_breitbart_scoop_how_did_media_miss_this_280290.html

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David Moberg, In These Times
Mitt Romney may rue the day he called Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “marvelous,” as if he were describing a splendid buffet at the mansion of a friend. The plan from the influential, youthful Republican chair of the House budget committee does offer people like Mitt and his rich buddies tasty goodies – $10 trillion in preserved and fresh millionaire-friendly tax cuts (over a decade), to be followed later with rollbacks in financial, environmental and every other regulation. 

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/18/the_gop039s_dead-end_path_to_prosperity_280268.html

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The violent demise of the dinosaurs can teach us a lesson or two about our place in the big scheme of things. Are we the end product of cosmic cataclysms?

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Prosecutors released a trove of new information detailing the investigation of Trayvon Martin’s death. Martin was the unarmed Florida teen killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February. Host Michel Martin speaks with NPR’s Greg Allen, who says the material could be helpful to both sides in the case.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153005647/trayvon-martin-case-evidence-raises-more-questions?ft=1&f=1003

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Wisconsin Democrats hope to unseat Republican Governor Scott Walker in a recall election. In the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Zimmerman, a lifelong Democrat, says he is “appalled.” The recall, he writes, “epitomizes the petty, loser-take-all vindictiveness of contemporary American politics.”

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Alexis Simendinger, RCP
President Obama has a weekend challenge ahead of him: Can he persuade European leaders gathered in the Maryland woods outside Washington, D.C., to adopt the U.S. fiscal example of short-term bailouts, government stimulus and long-range plans for belt-tightening in order promote growth and stave off a fiscal meltdown in the Eurozone?Obama's re-election chances, pinned to his promises of a rosier U.S. economy and more jobs here, could ride on what his peers in Europe decide to do.U.S. economists have said continued writhing in Europe over a solution to the debt crisis, and even…

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/18/europes_fate_and_obamas_may_ride_on_g8_summit_114196.html

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The violent demise of the dinosaurs can teach us a lesson or two about our place in the big scheme of things. Are we the end product of cosmic cataclysms?

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Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times
All eyes will be on Barack Obama as he comes home to Chicago this weekend for the NATO Summit.Then again, Hillary Clinton, a Park Ridge native, is coming home, too.The president and his secretary of state are a stunning study in American politics. Not that there haven’t been, as historian Doris Kearns Goodwin instructs, teams of rivals before.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/obama-clinton_that039s_the_ticket_280120.html

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The House Wednesday passed a Republican version of a bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act. This is expected to set up a battle with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which has already passed a broader measure that’s supported by the White House.

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Charles Blow, New York Times
You gotta have faith. Democrats have it. Republicans don't. That is the finding of a USA Today/Gallup poll that was released on Tuesday. The poll found that:

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/16/believing_in_obama_280092.html

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John Peet, Europe editor of The Economist in London, talks to David Greene about European reaction to heightened speculation that Greece may leave the eurozone. Next month, voters are likely to back parties that want to tear up the IMF-EU bailout deal.

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Relations between Washington, D.C., and the former pariah state, Myanmar continue to warm. On Thursday, the Obama administration named the first full ambassador to Myanmar in more than two decades.

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