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Concerns about the stability of nuclear reactors at a power plant in Fukushima, Japan, grew Monday, with officials stating that the nuclear fuel rods inside three reactors appeared to be melting.

Renee Montagne talks with U.S. Army Captain David Moses. He served two tours in Iraq, and will be one of the speakers marking Memorial Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington today. Moses was one of the thousands of children in Sudan displaced by civil war. He is known as one of the "Lost Boys." He tells us how serving in Iraq reminded him of the rough days he survived as a child in Sudan.

Airs Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Joplin, Mo., residents at an area shelter are grateful to have stepped out of destroyed homes with just the clothes on their backs. Still in shock, they haven't started worrying yet about what happens next.

A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old. The oldest wreck may date back 800 years.

While the majority of Jewish parents still opt to circumcise their boys, a small but growing number are wavering. The stories of two families show the conflict between the power of tradition and creeping doubts about the necessity of the ritual.

A searchable database of more than 500 billion words from millions of books published over the past four centuries is now online. Researchers say the tool is a powerful way to study cultural change.

The largest known snake that ever lived grew as long as a school bus, weighed over a ton and ate crocodiles — presumably whole and al dente. Not to worry: Titanoboa cerrejonensis lived 60 million years ago. But scientists say a hotter world was required for a cold-blooded animal to grow to that size.

Edward Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt who is now a professor of global political theory at Hamilton College, talks with Steve Inskeep about the violent clashes in Egypt and the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's authority.

Sy and Pat Saliba were together for nearly 40 years; the pair first met as teenagers in Trinidad. Five years after Pat's death from cancer, Sy speaks with his daughter, Yvette, about life with the woman who was his soul mate.