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  • Sunanda Pushkar's death was preceded by a very public Twitter feud about an alleged affair by her husband.
  • Braille Without Borders was the first school for the blind in Tibet, founded by a German woman who is blind herself, Sabriya Tenberken. On assignment profiling Tenberken, writer Rosemary Mahoney had to face her own fear of losing her sight and challenge long-standing misconceptions about blindness.
  • How popular is the latest Disney animated musical with its target demographic? One measure: Two different versions of the song "Let It Go" are currently in the BillboardTop 40.
  • Defining poverty is not straightforward, says Tim Harford, author of the new book The Undercover Economist Strikes Back. It's also about how people view themselves and how they're viewed by others.
  • Feeling "watched" by secret Internet agents hoping to sell you new shoes can be disturbing. But commentator Tania Lombrozo suggests that it isn't this loss of privacy, per se, that makes personalized Internet advertising distinctly unnerving.
  • Every time Chris Christie is in the news, we wind up hearing the same jokes. Maybe we could get some new ones.
  • Every day this week, illustrator Maria Fabrizio will be creating an illustration inspired by a story she hears on Morning Edition. Today, the story that caught her ear was about how a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., is considering a deal that would end the city's notorious school desegregation case.
  • President Obama will announce major reforms to the NSA, Congress will attempt to pass a budget and Chris Christie continues to face fallout from a traffic jam scheme.
  • More than 50 cities have passed “ban-the-box” laws -- so-called because many job applications contain a box to check if you have a criminal record. We hear about how the law is working in Philadelphia.
  • Missouri is buying its execution drug from an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy that isn't regulated by the FDA or licensed in Missouri, raising legal and ethical questions.
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