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Edith Wharton moved to Paris in the early 1900s. Not long after, in 1913, after her affair with Morton Fullerton had ended, she divorced her husband of more than 20 years.

'Age Of Desire': How Wharton Lost Her 'Innocence'

Jennie Fields' new novel, The Age of Desire, reimagines Edith Wharton's fling with a young journalist and the obsession that accompanied its fallout. Without that experience, Fields says, Wharton's The Age of Innocence would not have been the same.

Local Groups Assist Smaller Nonprofits

A couple of local groups are helping nonprofit organizations survive in the economic recession. KPBS reporter Katie Orr has details.

Dutch soccer fans watch the 2010 World Cup final July 11 between the Netherlands and Spain on large screens near the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Fierce nationalism remains a major barrier to greater EU integration.

In Europe, Obstacles To A More Perfect Union

The creation of the European Union and the advent of the euro currency have done little to dampen fierce nationalism across the continent. NPR concludes its series on Europe with a look at whether the euro, and the notion of European unity, can survive.

Wolves in an abandoned village in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

NATURE: Radioactive Wolves

Airs Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, August 11 at 4 p.m. on KPBS TV

Genetically modified to be enriched with beta-carotene, golden rice grains (left) are a deep yellow. At right, white rice grains.

In A Grain Of Golden Rice, A World Of Controversy Over GMO Foods

A rice enriched with beta-carotene promises to boost the health of poor children around the world. But critics say golden rice is also a clever PR move for a biotech industry driven by profits, not humanitarianism.

Little Hoover Commission executive director Stuart Drown testifies about the commission's recent pensions report at a joint Senate-Assembly committee Wednesday.

Pension Overhaul Meetings Begin

A controversial proposal to overhaul California’s pension system got its first hearing before a legislative committee Wednesday.

Scorched pastures are spreading across central Illinois and the rest of the Midwest. Technology and techniques developed from previous droughts like the Dust Bowl are helping to save some of today's crops, but there's no substitute for water.

This Drought's No Dry Run: Lessons Of The Dust Bowl

This summer's dry weather is drawing comparisons to the droughts of the 1950s and even the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Technology and techniques developed from those hard times are helping to save some of today's crops, but there's no substitute for water.

Archer Khatuna Lorig, seen here during the London Archery Classic last October, helped actress Jennifer Lawrence prepare for her role as Katniss Everdeen in <em>The Hunger Games.</em>

After 'Hunger Games,' U.S. Archer Shoots For Olympic Games

U.S. archer Khatuna Lorig hopes to return to the Olympics this summer. But she's already helped put archery into The Hunger Games this spring — by training the film's star, Jennifer Lawrence. In the film's kill-or-be-killed competition, Lawrence's character relies on her ability with a bow.

Memorial For Slain Iraqi Woman To Be Held At Islamic Center Of Lakeside

A memorial at the Islamic Center of Lakeside will be held today for an Iraqi woman found fatally beaten in her El Cajon home near a note that called her a terrorist and told her and her family to go home.

An Afghan refugee girl walks back to her home in a slum on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, in August. She is one of an estimated 1.7 million mostly Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Pakistan Fears Afghan Spillover Of Chaos, Refugees

Pakistan is growing increasingly worried about the threat of civil war in Afghanistan when U.S. and other Western forces withdraw in 2014. In recent decades, Pakistan has seen an influx of refugees and turmoil as a result of war in Afghanistan and hopes to avoid that outcome this time.

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