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  • The story of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs taking another medical leave as he battles with cancer has been a big media story this week. It’s a led to some extravagant claims by reporters and their sources about Jobs’ demigod status.
  • Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft will be on the Capitol Hill hot seat for their role in helping the Chinese government monitor and censor the Internet. The House International Relations subcommittee on global human rights will hold hearings Wednesday about high-tech firms doing business in China.
  • Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd deal with Jane Lynch in Role Models (Universal)
  • A stand-up comedian gets sued over a mother-in law joke; a jury is made to swear it won't "google;" and a cutback in hiring may signal another Supreme Court Justice is about to retire. It's time to talk about some of the most fascinating current legal issues with These Days legal analyst, Dan Eaton.
  • Displays of joy erupted near the White House and ground zero in New York in reaction to news that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Some found the celebrations — even of the death of a widely hated figure — morally troublesome.
  • The Miss Saigon pageant winner left Vietnam for the U.S. in 1975 and eventually became an FBI special agent. She has reinvented herself once again; she now lives in Bangkok and runs a Vietnamese restaurant that has become a favorite of locals and expatriates alike.
  • It's getting harder to stay anonymous online, as the recent unmasking of a nasty blogger shows. One reason: The law is tilted toward disclosure. But some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.
  • China has ambitious plans for expanding high-speed rail systems throughout Southeast Asia and to Europe. And though Beijing is offering to foot much of the bill, negotiating the politics of building the rail links is tricky.
  • Among developing countries, Thailand is second only to Brazil when it comes providing universal access to AIDS drugs. One Thai woman, Krisana Kraisintu, took on government officials and multinational pharmaceuticals to make this drug availability possible. Now she's setting her sights on Africa's AIDS crisis. NPR's Richard Knox reports.
  • Like entrepreneurs everywhere, the trio who founded Bluebox Now dream of making it big. But first they have to learn some lessons. As they're getting off the ground, a cycle of mentorship feedback and retooling drives their growth, though that may mean falling behind schedule.
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