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  • No Country for Old Men: Suspense in the West
  • Airs Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Female circumcision has been illegal in Egypt for years, but authorities are making a stronger push to eradicate it after a young girl died last month during the procedure.
  • Zombies, Serial Killers, and Dr. Who, Oh MMy!
  • Palin Power
  • More than one in ten Americans suffer from migraines, and yet this chronic condition is difficult to diagnose and treat. In his mid-forties, writer Andrew Levy suffered from daily migraines. To help combat the pain, he began keeping a journal and researching the medical and cultural history of migraines. The result is his memoir "A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary."
  • Selma Jager has sold real estate for 38 years in Prince George's County, Md. But she and other real estate agents now face a housing market that is especially exasperating. That's because home prices and interest rates are the lowest they've been in ages, but buyers still aren't taking the plunge.
  • An exhibit about Eros at Rome's Colosseum seeks to illustrate the huge gap between contemporary attitudes of erotic love and how the subject was treated in antiquity.
  • Households' net worth rose 2.1 percent last quarter -- the four straight quarterly gain. Yet tumbling stock prices have reduced their wealth since then. Some economists say Americans' net worth may now be down slightly for the year. That helps explain why many say it will at least 2012 or 2013 before Americans' wealth returns to pre-recession levels.
  • Pope Benedict will address Catholic clerics from around the world at the Vatican during ceremonies marking the end of the church-designated "Year for Priests." Much attention will focus on what the pope says about the stream of child sexual abuse scandals that have been rocking the Catholic Church in recent years.
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