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Pennsylvania Woman Indicted On Terrorism Charges
 Colleen R. LaRose is accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday. She called herself JihadJane in a YouTube video in which she said she was "desperate" to ease the suffering of Muslims, the indictment said.
 New Law In Myanmar Bars Suu Kyi From Election
 The law excludes anyone convicted by a court from participating in elections. The Nobel laureate, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years in detention, was convicted last August of violating the terms of her house arrest by briefly sheltering an American who swam to her lakeside residence.
 Massa Says Groping Of Male Staffer 'Not Sexual'
 Asked on Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel show, the former New York congressman said his actions toward a male staffer at a birthday party might have been misinterpreted. "I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was," he told Beck.

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After Financial Ruin, Plotting America's 'Comeback'
 David M. Walker is the former comptroller general of the United States. His book, Comeback America, details the current financial crisis and offers his ideas on controlling spending and restoring fiscal responsibility in the United States.
 Vince Gilligan: The Man Behind 'Breaking Bad'
 Vince Gilligan created the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, starring Bryan Cranston as a high-school chemistry teacher who becomes a meth dealer to secure his family's finances. Gilligan tells David Bianculli why he chose Cranston for the role — and why he thinks Breaking Bad is different from every other show on TV.
 Excerpt: 'Eclipse of the Sunnis'
 Excerpt: 'Eclipse of the Sunnis'

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Wildlife Rehabers Reverse Damage Caused on Highway

In the rural West, summer is roadkill season. But what happens to animals who live through their encounter with our cars, injured, but not dead? Fish and Wildlife agencies, the police, and most vets don’t take them in. That’s where wildlife rehabilitators come in -- the people who act as the emergency room doctors for injured critters. Jessica Robinson has this story.



Savage Rapids Lesson: Removing Dams No Easy Task

After two decades of conflict, crews are finally jackhammering the Savage Rapids Dam into oblivion. The southern Oregon dam on the Rogue River doesn't even produce electricity. Yet, removing it proved complicated and controversial. Efforts to return other rivers to free-flowing channels are getting more attention across the Northwest and in Congress. But what happened with the Savage Rapids Dam gives some indication of how difficult it can be to rip out these engineering feats of the last century. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this story.



Oregon's Poetry Out Loud Finalist Signs Her Words

Today, a high school student from Oregon will appear in a competition in Washington D.C. called Poetry Out Loud. She’s eighteen-year-old Tiffany Hill of Eugene. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest in which teens memorize and deliver classic poems. Only, Hill won’t be saying anything ... at least not out loud. Hill is the first deaf student to compete in the national competition -- she’ll deliver her poems in American Sign Language. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this profile.To watch Hill signing "Inside Out" by Diane Wakoski in the state finals, click here.


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9th Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival

Seven Oscar Nominated films, William Hurt in The River Why, an Akira Kurosawa classic, the art and l
 The acclaimed Ashland Independent Film Festival returns to the art-deco Varsity Theatre, the Historic Ashland Armory, and the Ashland Springs Hotel in the heart of the historic downtown, April 8–12 for its ninth annual, five-day showcase of independent film.
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General Sarnoff is Spinning in his Grave

David Sarnoff, or General Sarnoff as he preferred to be addressed following his service in World War II, was the principal force behind the founding and flowering of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its subdivision, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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Reflections from Land’s End

Since moving to Oregon almost a decade ago and spending my thirties here—easy come, easy go—I’ve adjusted to the differences ranging from language to landscape, plant-life to home-life, names, faces, and places.
Watching the sun go down over the Pacific ocean, tolerating inland fog (even the freezing kind) and trying to sort out berry-talk: salmon, huckle, thimble, goose—even cranberries float around parts of Oregon, and of course let us not forget one of Oregon’s newer immigrant berries, grapes.
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