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11:14 am
Sun October 14, 2012

Syrian Forces Using Cluster Bombs, Rights Group Says

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Syrians deliver an injured civilian to a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, following shelling by government forces.
Krulwich Wonders...
7:33 am
Sun October 14, 2012

Weekend Special: When Cities, People and Highways Glow Like Stars

Credit Justin Wilkinson / NASA via TheChive

In this video, we are flying over the Earth, looking down and seeing what astronauts see when it's nighttime, when lightning storms flash like June bugs, when cities look like galaxies, when you can see where people are. It's quietly astonishing.

This montage of space footage was assembled and narrated by NASA scientist Justin Wilkinson. There's another one, which takes us around the Earth in daytime.

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Election 2012
5:45 am
Sun October 14, 2012

Strict Private School Prepped Romney To 'Aim High'

Originally published on Sun October 14, 2012 1:14 pm

From now until November, President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences. But the two men's lives actually coincide in a striking number of ways. In this installment of NPR's "Parallel Lives" series, a look at Romney's time at Cranbrook, an all-boys prep school in Michigan.

Cranbrook has been coed since the mid-1980s, its overall diversity is quite evident and the dress code is casual. None of that was true when Mitt Romney, class of 1965, was a student there.

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World
5:45 am
Sun October 14, 2012

Russia To Go It Alone On Nuke Disarmament

Originally published on Sun October 14, 2012 1:14 pm

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Well, this past week, the Russian government announced that it is dropping out of the program.

NPR's Mike Shuster has more on the consequences.

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