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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

From Miles Davis to Jeff Beck.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
(Copyright © 2011 DC Comics)

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Superman and there’s a lot to celebrate.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Private First Class Daniel Andrew Benedett went missing on May 15, 1975.

Private First Class Daniel Andrew Benedett was on a helicopter shot down off a Cambodian island in 1975. His remains were identified earlier this year and he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery today.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Watertown Police Sgt. John MacLellan and his “tree of life.” (Jonathan Peck/WBUR)

We hear from a police officers who, days after the Boston Marathon bombing, was on the scene of a wild shootout in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A hybrid bee. (Larsinio)

Swarms of a type of hybrid bee have been attacking hikers and walkers in Arizona, killing at least one and injuring half a dozen others.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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The discovery of three kidnapped Cleveland women has parents thinking about how to protect their kids.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Just a week after three women missing for a decade in Cleveland reappeared, police say they have solved a 1984 murder case.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Capt. Sara Rodriguez of the 101st Airborne Division walks through the woods during the expert field medical badge testing at Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP)

National security expert Juliette Kayyem says the problem of sexual assaults in the military won’t change until women are fully integrated into the services, including combat roles.

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Friday, May 10, 2013
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To mark the coming arrival of the cicadas, we speak with David Rothenberg, who makes music out of the cicada buzz.

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Friday, May 10, 2013

The BBC’s Owen Bennett Jones joins us from Lahore, Pakistan to discuss Saturday’s election. He reports on the role of money in the campaign.

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Monday, June 17, 2013
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
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
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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