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  • Without Intervention, Lions Heading For Extinction
    The worldwide lion population has declined a staggering 90 percent in the past 50 years. In their documentary The Last Lions, conservationists Beverly and Dereck Joubert track the giant hunters across Bostwana and warn that without intervention, lions may soon go extinct.
  • Wandering Appetites: Hunting The Elusive Noodle
    Jennifer Lin-Liu's On the Noodle Road takes readers on a journey along the former Silk Road, looking for the origins of the noodle. But reviewer T. Susan Chang says that the book gets tied into knots when the quest turns cold.
  • State officials close tent city in Ann Arbor
    About 70 homeless people stayed at the tent city known as Camp Take Notice. But they were told to pack up and move out.“You know, right now, this whole…
  • A natural gas well.
    As fracking debate continues in Michigan, Obama weighs in
    Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" has created no shortage of controversy recently. And as Michigan Radio's Rebecca Williams reported last week, debate…
  • Forum to examine lack of jury diversity
    Minorities are underrepresented on Michigan juries, and an effort is under way to change that.The U.S. District Court commissioned a study on jury…
  • 'Vampires' Isn't Sparkly — It's Magnificent
    Swamplandia! author Karen Russell has a new story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Reviewer Michael Schaub says Russell puts the lie to the popular misconception that literary fiction must be boring and realistic, and fans of George Saunders will be right at home in these stories.
  • Michigan and Michigan State set trend by having neurologists on the sidelines
    No doubt about it — heads are sure to collide on Saturday’s football game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.But when heads…
  • Then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks on Sept. 7, 2008, during a news conference on the bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Paulson has written a <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123413508#123415692">memoir</a> recounting key moments of the financial crisis.
    Paulson Calls For More Financial Regulatory Power
    The economy was on the verge of collapse in 2008 when the federal government stepped in to shore up the financial system. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was at the center of those efforts, says the government still needs better tools to prevent another crisis.
  • The new DMC Heart Hospital is scheduled to open in early 2014.
    DMC breaks ground on heart hospital
    The Detroit Medical Center has broken ground on a $78 million dollar heart hospital.It’s part of a broader expansion plan announced when Vanguard Health…
  • Proponents of the taxes say that if the measures pass, the money would be directed, in San Francisco, toward childhood nutrition and recreation and, in Berkeley, into the city's general fund.
    Soda-Makers Try To Take Fizz Out Of Bay Area Tax Campaigns
    Voters will decide on a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks in Berkeley and a 2-cent-per-ounce tax in San Francisco. But the soda industry's lobbying group has spent millions blasting the measures.
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