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  • Doreen Ramogola-Masire, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Botswana, hopes that a simple, quick screen for cervical cancer with vinegar will catch the disease early and save women's lives.
    Botswana Doctors Stop Cervical Cancer With A Vinegar Swab
    Women with HIV have a high risk of getting cervical cancer, but the traditional screening method for the disease — a pap smear — isn't available in many poor countries. Now doctors have developed a cheap, simple alternative way to detect cervical cancer, and it's saving lives in Africa and Asia.
  • Rahm Emanuel Walking A High Wire With Teachers
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is negotiating with striking teachers, who are a key part of his — and the president's — constituency. Meanwhile, he's tasked with raising money for Priorities USA Action, the superPAC supporting President Obama. It seems that this election season, Emanuel has his hands full and his feet on a high wire.
  • Towns near the Ohio River, including Steubenville, seen here in 2009, are home to many undecided voters. One of them, Brian Snider, says, "This is pretty much a ghost town."
    In The Ohio River Valley, Voters Aren't Sure Either Candidate Can Help
    Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney seems to be winning the hearts of blue-collar voters in this part of the state. Economically, says one analyst, many residents here should be voting Democratic; but their social conservatism clouds the picture.
  • Former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle gives a victory speech in Honolulu after winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Aug. 11.
    Can A Republican Win A Senate Seat In Blue Hawaii?
    Surprisingly, some analysts are putting Hawaii's Senate race in the tossup column this year. Hawaii hasn't elected a Republican to the Senate since 1970. But with former Gov. Linda Lingle running, Republicans believe they have a chance. And whoever wins, the state will have its first female senator.
  • Is the search for Gov. Caswell's grave over?
    By George Olsenhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/pre/local-pre-912743.mp3Is the search for Gov. Caswell's grave over?New Bern, NC –…
  • "Wail" sighting in Carteret County
    By George Olsenhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/pre/local-pre-521043.mp3New Bern, NC – INTRO - The acoustic jazz quartet Harmonious…
  • UNC-CH study examines low flu vaccination rates
    By George Olsenhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/pre/local-pre-559646.mp3UNC-CH study examines low flu vaccination ratesNew Bern, NC –…
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: A building with an inseam; A black belt in Shhh; Results of the 2012 Yacht Poll.
  • Another Convention, This For Political Cartoonists
    NPR's Brent Baughman takes a visit to the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' Convention in Washington D.C. and has this amusing postcard.
  • Community leaders and family members of murder victims attend a press conference Jan. 3 at St. Sabina Church in Chicago to make a plea for stronger gun regulations.
    Violence-Riddled Chicago Hopes Gun Proposals Will Help Shield It
    There were more than 500 homicides in the city last year. Officials and residents are counting on President Obama's gun control package to bring that number down. "We didn't want other parents to be like us," says one Chicago mom, whose son was shot to death on a city bus.
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