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U.S.
2:53 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

Immigration Reform Before Border Control, Experts Say

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A hilltop view of the 18-foot fence along the U.S.-Mexico border west of Nogales, Ariz.
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Originally published on Wed December 26, 2012 5:10 pm

Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. Border Patrol has quintupled in size — growing from about 4,000 to more than 20,000 agents.

The government has constructed some 700 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers. It has placed thousands of ground sensors, lights, radar towers and cameras along the border. And Customs and Border Protection is now flying drones and helicopters to locate smuggles and rescue stranded immigrants.

So here's the question: Is the Southwest border secure?

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The Picture Show
2:28 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

'Miss Subways': A Trip Back In Time To New York's Melting Pot

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Selsey was Miss Subways January-March 1964
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Enid Berkowitz Schwarzbaum at home with her artwork in Valley Stream, N.Y., 2008.
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Enid Berkowitz, now in her 80s, was Miss Subways in July 1946.
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Berkowitz suns on the roof where she lived in 1944.
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Kilpatrick was a model in the mid-1970s.
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Today, Marcia Kilpatrick has a jazz radio program on public radio in Portland, Ore.
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Peggy Byrne at Church of Our Saviour, New York, N.Y., where she continues to work into her 80s as director of operations.
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Byrne in an undated vacation snapshot.
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Byrne was Miss Subways March-April 1952.
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Selsey was Miss Subways January-March 1964.
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A headshot from Selsey's modeling portfolio in the mid 1960s.
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Sanora Selsey with her granddaughter at her home in Brooklyn.
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Thelma Porter
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Miss Subways Dorothy Calaghan poses in a new subway car at Willis Point.
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In 1948, Thelma Porter became the first African-American Miss Subways.
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Originally published on Thu May 2, 2013 4:13 pm

For more than 35 years, riders on the New York City subways and buses during their daily commute were graced with posters of beaming young women. While the women featured in each poster — all New Yorkers — were billed as "average girls," they were also beauty queens in the nation's first integrated beauty contest: Miss Subways, selected each month starting in 1941 by the public and professionally photographed by the country's leading modeling agency.

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It's All Politics
2:27 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

House Republicans Face Threat Of Primary Challenges In 'Plan B' Vote

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Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., shown in 2010, has said he would deserve a primary challenge if he voted for House Speaker John Boehner's "fiscal cliff" proposal, which would extend the Bush-era tax cuts only on income of less than $1 million.
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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 7:18 pm

House Republicans are under a lot of pressure.

House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are urging them to support his "Plan B" to avoid the automatic tax hikes of the "fiscal cliff." But they're also facing pressure from outside groups that could mount primary challenges against them if they do.

Boehner argues his plan — which would allow the Bush-era tax cuts to stay in place for income under $1 million a year — isn't a tax increase. But a number of conservative groups have come to a very different conclusion.

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Latin America
1:36 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

'Lost Jews' Of Colombia Say They've Found Their Roots

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Baruj Cano, 4, watches as his father and other men from Bello's Jewish community read from the Torah.
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Many members of the Jewish community in Bello, Colombia, were raised as Christians. They believe their ancestors were Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition, and so they are now Orthodox Jews. Here, a boy reaches out to the 120-year-old Torah that was written in Amsterdam and acquired by the community five years ago.
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A man worships at the synagogue in Bello using a prayer book, the Siddur Birkat Shelomo, in which Spanish, Hebrew and phonetic versions are offered.
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The congregation prays at the synagogue in Bello.
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A metallic yad, or hand in Hebrew, is used while worshippers read from the Torah in Bello's synagogue.
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Worshippers leave the synagogue after morning prayers.
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Tombstones, many of European Jewish immigrants, at the secluded Jewish cemetery in the north of Medellin.
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Yehudit Zapata recites prayers at the synagogue in Bello.
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The congregation gathers around the Torah.
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A boy collects books after prayers.
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A man reads from a prayer book while a mother cares for her daughter during prayers at Bello's synagogue.
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A man worships at the synagogue in Bello using a prayer book, the Siddur Birkat Shelomo, in which Spanish, Hebrew and phonetic versions are offered.
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Galit Zapata, a member of the Jewish community in Bello, prepares bread in the family's kosher bakery.
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Originally published on Sun December 23, 2012 9:38 am

They are called "crypto-Jews" or "lost Jews," and in recent years they have emerged in remote places as scattered as India, Brazil, the American Southwest and here in Colombia.

They were raised as Christians but believe they have discovered hidden Jewish roots, prompting many to return to Judaism. Many say their ancestors were Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain more than 500 years ago, as the Spanish crown embarked on a systematic persecution of Jews.

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Space
1:34 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

In Calif. Gold Country, A Rush That's Out Of This World

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A section of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, dubbed "Darth Vader," is studied at a lab at the University of California, Davis. The meteorite is made of carbonaceous chondrite, which contains materials that formed the planets of the solar system.
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Robert Ward found a piece of the meteorite at a park in Lotus, Calif., on April 25. The 100,000-pound meteorite was blown apart into small pieces as it met the Earth's atmosphere.
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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 7:18 pm

On the crisp, clear morning of April 22, a 50-ton asteroid slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and shattered into countless pieces. Remarkably, they rained down onto Sutter's Mill, Calif., the exact spot where gold was discovered back in 1848, triggering the gold rush. And so follows a story of serendipity and scientific discovery.

"I was out on my hillside burning some branches and so forth, and I heard this sonic boom," says Gold Country resident Ed Allen. "It wasn't just one boom. It was a series of booms, literally right over my head."

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The Salt
1:02 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

Big Food And The Big, Silent Salt Experiment

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Food companies have begun quietly reducing salt in regular foods because low-salt items like these don't sell as well.
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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 7:18 pm

Have you noticed, perhaps, that some of your store-bought salad dressings or spaghetti sauces taste a little less salty lately?

Probably not. The companies that make those products are doing their best to keep you from noticing. Yet many of them are, in fact, carrying out a giant salt-reduction experiment, either because they want to improve their customers' health or because they're worried that if they don't, the government might impose regulations that would compel more onerous salt reductions.

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The Two-Way
11:56 am
Thu December 20, 2012

Gun Control: 'Only Modest Change' In Opinion Since Newtown Shootings

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A Sig Sauer handgun on sale at a shop in Tucker, Ga.
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Originally published on Fri December 21, 2012 6:25 am

"The public's attitudes toward gun control have shown only modest change in the wake of last week's deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.," the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported Thursday afternoon.

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It's All Politics
2:07 pm
Wed December 19, 2012

Robert Bork's Supreme Court Nomination 'Changed Everything, Maybe Forever'

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Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing, Sept. 15, 1987.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., on Sept. 17, 1987, during Robert Bork's confirmation hearings. Both Biden and Kennedy ultimately voted against confirming Bork to the Supreme Court.
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Originally published on Wed December 19, 2012 5:31 pm

Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination provoked a lasting partisan divide over judicial nominations, died Wednesday at age 85.

A former federal judge and conservative legal theorist, he subsequently became a hero to modern-day conservatives. And as solicitor general in the Nixon administration, he played a small but crucial role in the Watergate crisis. In what came to be known as the Saturday Night Massacre, he fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after the attorney general and deputy attorney general refused President Nixon's firing order and quit.

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Shots - Health News
1:35 pm
Wed December 19, 2012

How The U.S. Stopped Malaria, One Cartoon At A Time

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The U.S. Army distributed a monthly pinup calendar to GIs, which encouraged them to protect themselves from malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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One mosquito bite could ruin a GI's chance of returning to the pleasures back home. The artist Frank Mack designed these malaria pinup calendars given to troops in the Pacific during World War II.
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More than half of the soldiers in the Pacific caught malaria. This poster from 1944 helped remind troops to avoid mosquitoes that transmit the parasite.
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Back on the homefront, public health workers were busy stopping malaria around military bases. This poster, printed by the U.S. Public Health Services between 1941 and 1945, reminded folks to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes out of the house.
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Mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite, but when people aren't treated, they help the disease to spread. This public health poster, which was also printed by the U.S. Public Health Services during World War II, was aimed at stopping malaria on the homefront.
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While the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas focused on stopping malaria in the U.S. during War World II, the U.S. Army launched an aggressive campaign to combat the parasite among troops. In 1945, it distributed a monthly pinup calendar to soldiers in the Pacific, encouraging them to use bug repellent, sleep under bed nets and cover up.
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A cartoon of "Annie Awful," a dangerous female mosquito that reminds U.S. soldiers to protect themselves from malaria.
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World
1:29 pm
Wed December 19, 2012

In Pakistan, Tax Evaders Are Everywhere — Government Included

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An investigative report found that less than a third of Pakistani lawmakers filed tax returns for 2011. The report said Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, photographed in Paris in December, did not file a return, though his spokesman says he did.
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Originally published on Wed December 19, 2012 5:32 pm

Tax evasion is a chronic problem in Pakistan — only about 2 percent of the population is registered in the tax system, and the government collects just 9 percent of the country's wealth in taxes, one of the lowest rates in the world.

But now a new investigative report is making headlines. It says that just a third of the country's 446 federal lawmakers bothered to file income tax returns last year.

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