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While their parents attend a conference, these kids learn high-tech mapping techniques. An instructor says the camp aims to intersect what kids already know about modern technology with map-reading skills and critical thinking.

The Israeli government is planning to cut the number of foreign cooks working in the country, especially in Asian restaurants. The move has angered many Asian chefs so on Tuesday they planned a day of political protest: They stopped serving egg rolls.

The top income tax bracket in America is 35 percent, but the rich often make their money in ways the IRS doesn't classify as taxable income. That makes it hard to gauge the true income gap in America — and hard to tell exactly how much tax the rich are really paying.

Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrest Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer, on Thursday. Doug Farah, an investigative journalist, talks to Melissa Block about the man accused of trading arms all over the world — often to both sides of the same conflict simultaneously.

Kristen Stewart is Bella and Robert Pattinson is Edward in the eagerly anticipated adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (Summit)

The Thai prime minister's party sweeps a general election that was boycotted by the opposition. The prime minister called elections three years early to try to quell growing street protests demanding his resignation. Official results are not in yet. Renee Montagne talks with Michael Sullivan.

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Married Thai women have become an AIDS risk group. But in Thailand, as in many societies, women are in no position to tell their husbands to use condoms. That's giving new urgency to the drive to develop a gel that women can use to prevent HIV infection. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

World markets tumbled Tuesday as investors worried that Europe's debt crisis would spread despite a $143 billion bailout package for Greece. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 200 points while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell more than 2 percent.

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