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  • U.S. Postal Service mailboxes are seen awaiting disposal in San Jose, Calif. Because of steeply declining use, the U.S. Postal Service has removed more than 60 percent of the blue boxes.
    The Fight To Save The U.S. Postal Service
    Just in the last four years mail volume is down 20 percent, so the agency is struggling to reinvent itself. That could mean layoffs, post office closures and possibly the end of Saturday delivery.
  • Libyan rebels gather at the front line on the eastern ridge of the Nafusah Mountains in Western Libya on Sunday.
    Rebels In Libya's Western Mountains Face Shortages
    Over the past few weeks in Libya, the rebels have made substantial gains against forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. But the isolated region southwest of Tripoli is now facing major shortages of food and other supplies.
  • Smoke billows from the Jabal Mohsen community while a Sunni gunman takes cover behind a wall in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood during clashes in Tripoli, Lebanon, on July 9, 2008.
    Lebanese Fear Collateral Damage From Syrian Crisis
    The Alawite minority is warning of chaos if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime falls. Their numbers in Lebanon may be small, but the Alawites are well-armed and fiercely loyal to Damascus.
  • After months of legal negotiations with his landlord, Bowl and Board owner Mark Giarrusso recently converted from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to Chapter 7 liquidation.
    A Retailer's Journey Ends With Liquidation
    With the stress of operating a retail business during the Great Recession, Bowl & Board owner Mark Giarrusso made the tough decision to liquidate instead of reorganize. The decision comes after a yearlong fight to keep the chain of New England housewares stores afloat.
  • Exclusive First Read: 'A Memory Of Light,' By Robert Jordan And Brandon Sanderson
    It's the moment fantasy fans have been waiting for: the finale of Robert Jordan's epic "Wheel of Time" series is at hand! We've got an exclusive first read of the 14th and last volume — the forces of Light and Shadow are about to fight their climactic battle, ending an Age and possibly shattering the world.
  • In November 1940, just months after its completion, a large section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge crashed into Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. The bridge collapsed under high winds — a failure that shocked engineers at the time.
    How Safe Is Safe Enough? To Engineers, It Depends
    "Safe" isn't a defined engineering term. Planners must decide, based on risks and probabilities, how safe they want to make something — whether it's an airplane, bridge, or nuclear power plant. But sometimes it's hard to estimate exactly what the likelihood of a particular calamity might be.
  • Chimps with Spears Captivate Photographer
    Unlike most members of their species, the chimps of the Senagelese grasslands spend most of their time on the ground. As Frans Lanting observed their creative survival tactics — hunting with spears and drumming to impress potential mates — he was reminded of himself.
  • Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina survivors march on Capitol Hill in February 2006, in a rally organized by ACORN to press the Bush administration and Congress to fund the rebuilding of New Orleans.
    ACORN's Current Woes Years In The Making
    Why is the community organizing group fighting for survival? Part of the story is the group's own missteps, capped by embarrassing undercover videos. But ACORN was often effective, and its successes sparked a sustained campaign of attacks by conservative and corporate critics.
  • Did Thomas Edison make a machine to unlock the secrets of the dead? HISTORY DETECTIVES host Gwendolyn Wright sets out to learn who made the PsychoPhone (pictured) and why.
    History Detectives: PsychoPhone, War Dog Letter, Pancho Villa Watch Fob
    Airs Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Photo of a 50mm round casing in the desert area that was previously the Mesopotamian Marshes, once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East. In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes when its inhabitants rebelled against him.
    NATURE: Braving Iraq
    Airs Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, March 31 at 4 p.m. on KPBS TV
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