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N. Korea's Kim Said To Pledge Nuclear Disarmament
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reiterated his country's pledge to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula when he met a senior Chinese envoy, Beijing's official news agency reported. "The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important," Kim said.
N.Y. Gov. Paterson Dismisses Talk Of Resignation
More rumors about New York Gov. David Paterson, who insists he is not planning to resign.
Criminal Probe Is Launched In Conn. Plant Blast
Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a Middletown power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause. The powerful explosion blew apart large swaths of the nearly completed 620-megawatt Kleen Energy plant Sunday.
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Imagining 'The Next Hundred Million' Americans
The U.S. population is expected to reach 400 million by mid-century. In his book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, Joel Kotkin argues that future will be green, diverse and suburban. Kotkin explains how the nation's changing demographics will transform American life and communities.
20 Years Of Defending Death Row Inmates
Attorney David Dow has spent his career representing inmates who have been sentenced to death. Despite his efforts, many of his clients have been executed — and most of them were guilty. In his new memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, Dow details what it's like to become emotionally involved with the people living on death row.
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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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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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Rupert Says Free TV is Dead
The commercial television networks, and therefore most local television stations, are having a tough time. With advertising revenue in decline from the soft national economy, new competition for advertising dollars from cable TV and Internet media couldn’t have come at a worse time. And audience ratings for over-the-air television have been dropping for some time, a shrinkage that further worsens the advertising income picture for both networks and local stations.
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Shifting Patterns: Thinking about Climate Change in the State of Jefferson
Photographs by Pepper Trail & Jim Chamberlain
In December 2008, a report was published that gave residents of the State of Jefferson a frightening look at our future: Preparing for Climate Change in the Rogue River Basin of Southwest Oregon.
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