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4:55 am
Fri January 11, 2013

How Will China's New Leadership Handle Censorship Issue?

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A man buys the latest edition of Southern Weekly at a newsstand near the newspaper's headquarters in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, on Thursday. The staff at the influential weekly rebelled to protest censorship by government officials; the newspaper was published Thursday after a compromise that called for relaxing some intrusive controls.
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A policeman points to a supporter of Southern Weekly before taking him away during a protest near the newspaper's headquarters Thursday.
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In China, one struggle over censorship has been defused — for the moment, at least.

Journalists at one of the country's boldest newspapers have published a new issue after a weeklong standoff that started when censors replaced a New Year's editorial. Now the week's events are being parsed for signals about the direction of China's new Communist leadership.

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Sports
4:55 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Major League Baseball Enacts New Anti-Doping Policies

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Major League Baseball has enacted new anti-doping policies that are being described as unprecedented in American professional sports. Yesterday, Major League Baseball and its Players Union said that starting next year they will be fighting the use of human growth hormone and testosterone - two allegedly popular banned substances.

NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman has been covering this story. Tom, good morning.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.

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3:35 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Haiti Then And Now: 3 Years After The Earthquake

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Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in downtown Port-au-Prince, Jan. 17, 2010.
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The National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010.
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Looters on the roof of a collapsed supermarket in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 20, 2010.
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Downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 16, 2010.
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A neighborhood near downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 15, 2010.
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A man carrying a shotgun looks to keep looters at bay in the commercial district of downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010.
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A man carries a stolen plastic table past a police car in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 20, 2010.
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Looters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 20, 2010.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 3:07 pm

Evidence of loss remains even three years after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of as many as 200,000 people in Haiti. In the middle of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, there is a cathedral whose sun-washed walls reach into the sky where a roof used to be.

A lone flagpole marks the spot where the National Palace, a symbol of Haiti's government, once proudly stood.

And on a downtown street that once bustled with storefronts, there is now a row of vendors who sell their wares under tent poles and umbrellas.

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Opinion
2:55 am
Fri January 11, 2013

The True Weight Of Water

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Craig Childs walks in the desert surrounding the Colorado River delta.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 7:35 am

Part of the nation's physical landscape is changing. Nature writer and commentator Craig Childs has been watching the dramatic transformation of a mighty river that is running dry.

Small porpoises once swam in the brackish estuaries of the Colorado River delta. Jaguars stalked the river channels and marshes. It's not like that any more, though. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea in Northern Mexico. It hasn't since 1983.

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Planet Money
2:46 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Black Market Pharmacies And The Big Business of Spam

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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 7:35 am

An apparent feud between two black market pharmacies has shed light on a shady global industry.

"Rx-Promotion and SpamIt probably are responsible for upward of 50 or 60 percent of spam that you and I got in our inboxes over the last five years," said Brian Krebs, a cyber-security reporter who chronicled the alleged feud on his website. "It's just a ridiculous amount of problems that these two guys cause for everybody."

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