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  • Museum Visitor Unlocks Safe That Couldn't Be Cracked
    For 40 years, a museum in the Canadian town of Vermilion had a safe that no locksmith could open. What was in it when it finally opened? An old pad with restaurant orders and a pay-slip from the '70s.
  • Report: Marine is Safe, Won't Return to Duty
    U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun is still alive -- despite claims by a militant group that he had been beheaded -- according to a report by the Arabic news network Al Jazeera. The TV channel, quoting a statement purportedly from Hassoun's captors, said he has been moved to an unspecified safe place after allegedly promising not to return to military duty. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.
  • 'It feels like I'm not crazy.' Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map
    The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.
  • Opera Abbreviated: 'Adriana Lecouvreur'
    Fifty years ago, a teacher gave me two tickets to see Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. I had never heard of this…
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    Mozart Minute: Mozart's Cheapskate Patron
    Mozart's 1778 stay in Paris was pretty much a total washout. Instead of making his name there as a composer, he was rebuffed and ignored. His mother died.…
  • Ohio Gov. John Kasich
    Kasich Visits New Hampshire But Still Says He's Unsure About 2020
    Snollygoster is the new Ohio politics podcast from WOSU Public Media. Every week, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown dive into the week’s biggest stories…
  • Ohio House Leadership Battle Ends, For Now
    In this week's Snollygoster, Ohio's political podcast from WOSU Public Media, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss how the Ohio House finally…
  • First lady Jill Biden was shamed for wearing patterned tights as she arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
    What Body Shaming Tell Us About Gender Roles And Society’s Expectations
    At least 80 high school girls in Florida had their yearbook photos digitally altered to cover up their chests even though their outfits didn’t violate the school dress code. We consider the subtle and not-so-subtle messages girls and women of all ages receive about their bodies and how they dress them.
  • Nigel Raine keeps a collection of wild bees in his laboratory at the University of Guelph, in Canada. Farmed honeybees can compete with wild bees for food, making it harder for wild species to survive.
    Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don't Help The Environment
    Maybe honeybees get too much attention. They are agricultural animals, like sheep or cattle, and they sometimes make life harder for wild bees. In fact, the bees in true peril are the wild ones.
  • A Soft Eraser Won't Fix This SAT Mistake
    The College Board won't score two of 10 test sections after a printing error on the instructions for the exam given earlier this month.
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