On The High School Diploma: A 'Bilingual' Stamp Of Approval?
Indiana may soon allow high school students to graduate with a 'seal of biliteracy.' Eight other states already do.
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George Takei And Company To Hollywood Gatekeepers: Fix Your Diversity Problem
A coalition of multi-ethnic Hollywood watchdogs is pushing talent agencies to add some color to their lineups.
Doctors Don't Always Ask About Pet-Related Health Risks
People can pick up germs and parasites from their pets, and some of them can be nasty. Health care providers for all species could do a better job of communicating the risks, a study finds.
Blue Bell Widens Recall To All Of Its Products Over Listeria Worries
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called it "a complex and ongoing multistate outbreak of listeriosis occurring over an extended period of several years."
Why Some Doctors Hesitate To Screen Smokers For Lung Cancer
Medicare now pays for some long-term smokers to get an annual test. These scans could save thousands of lives each year, but some doctors still worry risks outweigh benefits.
'Post And Courier' Of Charleston, S.C., Wins Pulitzer For Public Service
The newspaper's series examined why South Carolina is among the deadliest states for women in the United States. Anthony Doerr won the prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See.
Senators Try To Revise No Child Left Behind — A Few Years Behind
Tuesday, senators begin working out the details of a bipartisan update to the No Child Left Behind education law. The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.
Syrian Government Believed To Be Behind Chlorine Gas Attack
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chemical weapons expert Amy Smithson about the use of chlorine gas as a weapon in Syria. She says it is a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Setting The Record Straight On The Phrase 'Gateway Drug'
Denise Kandel coined the term, often associated with marijuana, in a research paper 40 years ago. But her work suggested nicotine, not pot, was most likely to lead to the use of harder drugs.
In Northwest, A Push To Protect Forest As Geothermal Projects Near
The Forest Service is set to open more than 80,000 acres for clean, renewable geothermal power in Washington state. But environmentalists are worried about damage to streams and old-growth forests.