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1:56 am
Tue March 6, 2012

Rush To Judgment: Advertisers Flee Limbaugh's Show

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Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's apology for comments he made about a Georgetown Law student has done little to stem criticism.
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Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke called Limbaugh's remarks "outside the bounds of human discourse."
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Originally published on Tue March 6, 2012 7:37 pm

An increasing number of corporations have announced that they will no longer advertise on the show of the undisputed king of political radio talk, Rush Limbaugh, in the wake of caustic and sexually charged comments he made about a Georgetown Law student.

An apology over the weekend failed to quell the controversy, as both corporations and conservative commentators denounced Limbaugh's latest provocative remarks. It is far from his first such episode. Part of Limbaugh's appeal involves getting listeners to tune in to hear just what shibboleth-bursting thing he'll say next.

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The Salt
1:56 am
Tue March 6, 2012

Most Of Us Just Can't Taste The Nuances In High-Priced Wines

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Research suggests that most of us don't or can't taste the subtleties of fine wines.
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Have you ever splurged on a highly rated bottle of Burgundy or pinot noir, only to wonder whether a $10 or $15 bottle of red would have been just as good? The answer may depend on your biology.

A new study by researchers at Penn State finds that when it comes to appreciating the subtleties of wine, experts can taste things many of us can't. "What we found is that the fundamental taste ability of an expert is different," says John Hayes of Penn State.

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Business
1:55 am
Tue March 6, 2012

Let A Stranger Drive Your Car? More Owners Say 'Yes'

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Stanford graduate student Katie Hagey rents her 2002 BMW to strangers through the peer-to-peer car sharing service Wheelz.
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Originally published on Tue March 6, 2012 11:13 am

It would be difficult for some people to let a stranger drive off with one of their most valuable possessions. But not for Stanford graduate student Katie Hagey.

Hagey is one of a growing number of individual car owners who have started renting their wheels to people they don't know through car-sharing startup companies resembling the better-known Zipcar.

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Mitt Romney
11:01 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Romney's Wins Have Come With Negative Messages

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters at a town hall meeting at Taylor Winfield in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday.
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It's Super Tuesday for the Republican presidential contenders, and 10 states are holding primaries and caucuses.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hopes he can firm up his front-runner status — a status that, an NPR analysis shows, has so far involved his campaign and a pro-Romney superPAC burying the opposition with negative messages.

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Middle East
11:01 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Obama, Netanyahu Differ On Timeline Of Iran Strike

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference on Monday in Washington, D.C. He said he would never let his "people live in the shadow of annihilation."
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In several hours of talks, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to have different timelines and red lines on the issue of Iran's nuclear program: Obama said he prefers diplomacy and pressure; the Israeli leader made clear his country reserves the right to attack pre-emptively, saying Israel must remain master of its fate.

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Around the Nation
11:01 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

As Elkhart's Electric Dreams Fizzle, RVs Come Back

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Clinton Lehman, who had been unemployed for nine months before being called back to work, assembles a recreation vehicle at the Jayco factory in Elkhart, Ind., in 2011.
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Most of these electric cars on the Think factory floor in Elkhart, Ind., are finished and ready to go, waiting to be sold. Some are merely waiting to be delivered to their new owners.
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Supervisor Rodney Smith is one of only two workers still working at the Think electric car plant in Elkhart.
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Main Street in Elkhart, Ind. The area was hit hard by the recession — nearly half of all jobs in Elkhart County are in manufacturing.
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Originally published on Tue March 6, 2012 11:13 am

Elkhart, Ind., is known as the RV capital of the world. The city suffered badly when the recession hit and demand for recreational vehicles all but screeched to a halt. That's when local and state leaders started looking for ways to bolster the area's manufacturing industry.

The unemployment rate in the city along the Michigan border eventually soared to 20 percent — the highest in the nation at the time.

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Middle East
11:01 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

From The Outside, Doctor Mobilizes Aid For Syrians

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A wounded Syrian undergoes treatment at a makeshift hospital in a house in the Baba Amr district of the central city of Homs.
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A Syrian man stands in a makeshift surgery room at a private house being used as a hospital in Qusayr, nine miles from Homs.
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At a cafe in Turkey, near the border with Syria, Dr. Monzer Yazji steps out of his car in the parking lot and encounters a man with a bandaged left hand.

Yazji, a Syrian who now works in the U.S., examines Abu Hamad, a fellow Syrian who has fled the fighting in his homeland.

The doctor, a tall man with glasses and a trim graying beard, is becoming well-known among Syrian activists. Yazji has been periodically leaving his thriving practice in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas to coordinate emergency medical aid for Syria.

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Law
6:34 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Holder Spells Out Why Drones Target U.S. Citizens

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Attorney General Eric Holder discusses the controversial U.S. drone program during a speech at Northwestern Law School in Chicago on Monday.
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In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group, U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites in November 2010. Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011.
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Originally published on Mon March 5, 2012 11:01 pm

It's one of the most serious actions the U.S. government could ever take: targeting one of its own citizens with lethal force.

Since last year, U.S. drones have killed three Americans overseas. But Attorney General Eric Holder says the ongoing fight against al-Qaida means those kinds of deadly strikes are now a way of life. And judging from the reaction to his national security speech at Northwestern University Law School on Monday, so is the hot debate over the legality of the U.S. drone program.

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The Two-Way
5:59 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Accusations Of Sexual Abuse By Red Sox Clubhouse Manager Widens

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Donald Fitzpatrick during a court hearing in Bartow, Fla., in 2002.
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By the Associated Press' count, 21 men have have now come forward to allege that a former clubhouse manager for the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles sexually assaulted them when they were children. The abuse allegedly happened between 1967 and 1991.

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It's All Politics
5:47 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

On Super Tuesday Eve, All Eyes On The Buckeye State Prize

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Rick Santorum campaigns Monday in Westerville, Ohio.
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In a final day of campaigning before Super Tuesday, Republicans Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum focused on the economy in Ohio, the most sought after prize in the 10 states voting or caucusing.

A week ago, Santorum had a substantial lead in Ohio polls; now he's in a statistical dead heat with Romney.

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