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  • The emotional and physical pain of psoriasis.
  • Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that a new uranium enrichment facility is being constructed to produce fuel for the country's nuclear power plants. It was revealed last week that Iran has been building the previously unknown facility for the past several years.
  • This November, AMC will present a reinvention of the 1967 British television series, The Prisoner, a show that should be familiar to long-time PBS viewers. Watch video from the Comic-Con panel and an exclusive trailer.
  • Around the nation today, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked with prayers, solemn ceremonies, vows to remember the nearly 3,000 victims and pledges to never let terrorists fundamentally change the American way of life.
  • Reports of human rights violations in Mexico have risen sharply since 2006. We talk to Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, about the Merida Initiative and how the U.S. can help stop human rights abuses in Mexico.
  • The Arab League has requested that the United Nations Security Council approve a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace. While some experts say the United States must step in to help the rebels, others argue that Libya doesn't meet the high bar for U.S. military intervention.
  • Democrat David Obey, who announced his retirement earlier this month, has represented northwestern Wisconsin in the House of Representatives for 40 years. But there are signs his district is changing -- and it might not be as liberal as Obey is. With him out of the race, some say Republicans could pick up the seat in November.
  • In our efforts to help the homeless, we often overlook the possibility that they might have something that could help us. People who've learned to live rough on the streets can have a wisdom and resilience most of us will never know. San Diego photojournalist Susan Madden Lankford documents these hard lives, and hard lessons in her new book of photographs.
  • It happened to me a few days ago and was totally unexpected. There, in my daily mail stack of incredibly boring bills, coupon offers, and disgustingly early holiday catalogues, was a goldenrod envelope, addressed to me and warning me in large-font bold letters: “DO NOT DESTROY.” The Republican National Committee had sent me, according to the return address, the 2009 Obama Agenda Survey.
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