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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Music From The Show

Steve Earle, “Satellite Radio”
alt-j, “Intro”
Miles Davis, “Milestones”
The Horros, “Still Life”
Radiohead, “Staircase”
Sea Wolf, “Old Friend”
Steve Earle, “Tennessee Blues”
The Baldwin Brothers, “Air Is Invisible”
The Wee Trio, “Tig Mac Is Back in Santa Monica”

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Monday, June 17, 2013
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Cancer patient Lynne Lobel, 47, watches a television program as she gets chemotherapy treatment at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, September 2005. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.

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Friday, June 14, 2013
The Perils Of Not Listening To Your Doctor: A Reporter’s Brush With Death
Paul Eisenstein is publisher of "The Detroit Bureau."

We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Soaring Carbon Emissions Point To ‘Disaster For All Countries’
The sun sets behind the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant in Emmett, Kan. in December 2012. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.

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