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  • Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
    The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.
  • Urban League: Black Turnout Could Be Key In 2012
    The cliche "every vote counts" is sure to get a workout this election season. A new report from the National Urban League says the African-American vote could play a critical role in November. Host Michel Martin talks with Chanelle Hardy of the National Urban League and David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
  • 'Blind Cook' Serves Up Tough Competition On 'MasterChef'
    How do you bake that perfect, mouthwatering pie when you can't even see how the crust and glaze are coming along? Vietnamese-American grad student Christine Ha has found a way. She is the first legally blind contestant on the reality TV show MasterChef. She's even impressing Gordon Ramsay, the notoriously brutal chef and judge. Christine Ha tells host Michel Martin how she does it all.
  • The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility are the first step in increasing the energy of laser beams as they make their way toward the target chamber.
    U.S. Laboratory Breaks Laser Record, Delivering 500-Trillion-Watt Beam
    That's about 1,000 times more power than United States uses at any given instant.
  • FDA makes it official, banning the chemical BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups.
    FDA Bans Chemical BPA From Sippy Cups And Baby Bottles
    Years after chemical companies stop using BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups, the Food and Drug Administration announces a ban. But consumer groups say FDA should do more and ban BPA from all food containers.
  • Houma man pleads guilty to 3 murders
    A 23-year-old Houma man will spend life in prison after pleading guilty to shooting and killing three people in 2009.Jacobby Lee pleaded guilty Monday to…
  • RSD seeks to rein in expulsions from New Orleans schools
    In a move to stop charter schools from expelling students too frequently, the state agency running most of New Orleans' public schools has issued new…
  • States To Use U.S. Immigration List For Voter Purges
    Florida's pact with federal officials clears a path for other states, including some in key battlegrounds, to verify voters' citizenship using a database known as SAVE, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.
  • House Spending Bill Would Slash $6 Billion From Federal Budget
    Health, labor and education would see major cuts and NPR member stations would be barred from using federal funds to buy NPR programming.
  • Marissa Mayer left Google to become the CEO of Yahoo. She was Google's 20th hire and is responsible for the look and feel of many of Google's major products.
    New Yahoo CEO Among A Rare Few: Female Execs With Tech Creds
    Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo, is not the first woman to head a high-profile technology company. But the former Google executive is one of the few female computer scientists to reach such a pinnacle. Will her rise inspire more women to enter the technology field?
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