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  • Towering Pines Camp For Boys came to life in 1945. As environmental awareness was on the rise in the 1970s, the northern Wisconsin camp pioneered an…
  • Laressa Matthews lives and works in Balitmore, Md., operating a home day care center. Her day is 13 hours long, beginning at 5 a.m. She cares for eight children, ranging in age from just over one year to 12. She is one of tens of million of people who are low wage workers, earning less than $9 per hour. As part of a yearlong series of profiles of low-wage workers, NPR's Noah Adams spent the day with Laressa Matthews as she feeds, cares for and teaches the children and their mothers. She has no health care, no savings and no safety net.
  • A debilitating winter storm is creating havoc across the Deep South on Wednesday. As much as a foot of snow is expected in Georgia and the Carolinas. Ice will also be a problem: Forecasters say that up to an inch of it will coat roads and power lines. Jim Burress of member station WABE reports from Atlanta that hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity.
  • If Chandrayaan-2 reaches the moon as planned, India would become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface, after the United States, Russia and China.
  • A Good Woman is based on Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan. But unlike Wilde's play, which is based in Victorian England, the film is set in Italy decades later. Critic Kenneth Turan is worried the story can't survive such a drastic change of scene.
  • The Nuyorican rapper, best known for her relentless flow and urban bruja vibe, pens a love letter to the emo and pop-punk she loved growing up on her new mixtape, A Girl Cried Red.
  • The mission has become a reason for national pride in the country. If successful, China would join the U.S. and the former Soviet Union as the only countries to achieve a soft landing on the moon.
  • Regularly consuming cranberry juice can help stave off urinary tract infections, a new study finds. UTIs account for 7,000,000 doctor's office visits and about 100,000 hospitalizations in the United States.
  • Biden’s message, to come during a trip to Arizona, would be the first public apology from a sitting U.S. president in response to a federal policy that wreaked havoc on tribal communities.
  • Simply watching, reading or listening to steady news coverage of a traumatic event can be as stressful as experiencing the event in person, research suggests.
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