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Ask Me Another
10:14 am
Thu January 24, 2013

On With Their Heads

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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 11:47 am

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Alright. Let's welcome our next two contestants, Jamie Fried and Tom Kelso.

(SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: Hi Tom Kelso.

TOM KELSO: Hello Ophira.

EISENBERG: Do you have some experience in the theatre, being onstage in the past?

KELSO: Quite a bit, I've done shows in Louisiana, here in New York, Chicago, Baltimore.

EISENBERG: As an actor or?

KELSO: Both as an actor and backstage.

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Ask Me Another
10:14 am
Thu January 24, 2013

B-I-N-G-O

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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 10:44 am

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

All right, let's start the show? You guys ready to start the show?

JONATHAN COULTON: Yes.

EISENBERG: All right, let's do it.

COULTON: Please.

EISENBERG: We have our first contestants. Give them a hand everybody.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: All right. Hi, Tony Hightower. Welcome.

TONY HIGHTOWER: Hi, Ophira.

EISENBERG: You're originally from Toronto.

HIGHTOWER: I am.

EISENBERG: And you are a singer.

HIGHTOWER: I do sing. I have sang.

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Ask Me Another
10:14 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Breakfast Cereal Haiku

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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 10:44 am

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

You're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER, answering questions since 2012. I'm your host, Ophira Eisenberg, and with me is puzzler extraordinaire Noah Tarnow.

(APPLAUSE)

NOAH TARNOW: Hello. Thank you, Ophira.

EISENBERG: Hi, thank you. Thank you for being a puzzler extraordinaire.

TARNOW: You're welcome. I worked hard to get here today.

EISENBERG: I know, I don't use that lightly, either. Sometimes I just say puzzle good guy.

TARNOW: Yeah.

EISENBERG: You know, extraordinaire's a big deal.

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Ask Me Another
10:14 am
Thu January 24, 2013

John Hodgman: How Much Does The Know-It-All Know?

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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 11:50 am

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The Salt
10:03 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Small Meals, Big Payoff: Keeping Hunger And Calories In Check

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Don't eat me all at once.
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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 10:04 am

When presented with a tempting buffet of French food, not overeating can be a challenge. But a new study by researchers in Lyon suggests there are strategies that will help people resist temptation.

People trying to keep off excess weight are frequently told that it's better to eat small amounts of food frequently during the day, rather than the typical breakfast, lunch and dinner. The idea is that more frequent eating will stave off hunger pangs that may lead to overeating.

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The Two-Way
9:15 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Obama Chooses Former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White To Head S.E.C.

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Mary Jo White, who President Obama wants to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 10:43 am

Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney in New York who prosecuted terrorists responsible for the bombings of the World Trade Center and U.S. embassies in Africa, will be nominated by President Obama to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The Picture Show
9:03 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Sierra Leone's Water Of Life — And Death

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Momoh, 33, collects plastic bottles from the polluted beach of Kroo Bay, a poor slum settlement of 5,500 people in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In 2012, Sierra Leone suffered through one of its worst outbreaks of cholera, a waterborne disease that infects the intestine and is transmitted through contaminated water and food. The disease has ravaged 12 of the country's 13 districts.
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Momoh, 33, collects plastic bottles from the polluted beach of Kroo Bay, a poor slum settlement of 5,500 people in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In 2012, Sierra Leone suffered through one of its worst outbreaks of cholera, a waterborne disease that infects the intestine and is transmitted through contaminated water and food. It ravaged 12 of the country's 13 districts.
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The view of Freetown from Leicester Peak. Last year's cholera outbreak struck hardest in the slums, where crowded and unsanitary living conditions and unsafe water sources allowed the disease to spread rapidly.
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Children from Holy Trinity Primary School in east Freetown watch an educational video from the Sierra Leone Red Cross Mobile Cinema Unit, which toured the country in the aftermath of the outbreak.
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A public latrine in Freetown's Grey Bush slum where cholera struck. Open defecation is common while public bathrooms are generally in poor order and costly to use.
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Fishermen drag in a net at Lumley Beach in west Freetown. The polluted waters often bring small amounts of fish, tangled together with bottles and other trash.
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A man collects water from the polluted river running through Grey Bush. The sources for water are limited, and while international aid organizations have created temporary solutions in standpipes, the issue of sanitation and water has yet to be resolved.
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The Borborcombough Water Site in the Kroo Bay slum, one of two that service a population of 5,500 people. The Western Area — where Freetown is located — accounted for half of all cholera cases during the outbreak.
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A schoolgirl collects buckets of water for more than 200 other girls at a school in east Freetown. The water is used for drinking, washing and the latrines.
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The Guma Dam services the 2 million people of Freetown, a city built to support 600,000. The main supplier of water to the capital is the Guma Valley Water Co. But the company's pipes are crumbling and out-of-date and, despite a staggering 3 meters of annual rainfall, there is not enough water to go through the system.
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The dumpsites used by government trucks and private companies reside within the city. The Kingtom dumpsite sits in Grey Bush, a community of 12,000. It receives a large portion of Freetown's garbage, including human waste. Farmers use the garbage to grow vegetables.
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Young men stand in a wasteland burning garbage for copper. In the rainy season, which stretches from May to December, shanty houses at the base are flooded with water and refuse. In the dry season, stagnant pools of water build up and are used as alternative sources of water to wash.
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The main dumpsite in the center of Freetown where garbage and human waste has accumulated into massive caverns. While the cholera outbreak receded by the end of 2012, the danger for another outbreak remains. The core of the problem lies in an infrastructure unable to cope with a large urban population.
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A tourist from New Delhi floats in the clean water of River Number 2, a beach 16 kilometers (about 10 miles) south of Freetown that is typically populated by tourists and aid workers.
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Ibrahim, 12, burns for copper in the Ferry Junction dumpsite that receives a large portion of Freetown's waste.
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By Claire O'Neill

Traditionally, water symbolizes life and renewal, but in Sierra Leone it is also a vehicle for epidemic and death — the focus of photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz's project "Water Is Gold," which documents the causes and effects of the country's recent cholera outbreak.

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The Two-Way
8:53 am
Thu January 24, 2013

After Clinton's 'Outrage,' It's On To Kerry's Confirmation Hearing

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her testimony Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 9:22 am

The post-hearing stories about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's appearances Wednesday on Capitol Hill are focusing on her strong response to Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's charge that the Obama administration initially misled the nation about who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September.

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The Two-Way
8:45 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Jobless Claims Hold At Five-Year Low

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The number of first-time claims for unemployment insurance dipped by 5,000 last week from the week before, to 330,000, the Employment and Training Administration reports.

That means claims remain at a low level not seen since January 2008.

Another measure, the "4-week moving average" that is supposed to give a broader look at the trend, declined by 8,250 — to 351,750.

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Krulwich Wonders...
8:34 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Wile E. Coyote Teaches Math (And Despair) To Lucky Students In New Zealand

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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 10:07 am

There's something about being upside down (from all of us in the Northern Hemisphere) that makes New Zealanders a little melancholy. At least that's my theory.

My evidence? Well, the other day, I was looking at a curriculum guide for math teachers ("maths" teachers, they would say) on the New Zealand Ministry of Education's site, where the text on top says, We want to equip "all New Zealanders with the knowledge, skills, and values to be successful citizens in the 21st century."

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