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Competition from Netflix and rental kiosks is threatening movie rental chain Blockbuster. But the end of the road might not necessarily be around the corner. Blockbuster gets many new movies sooner than Netflix and offers a variety of delivery methods for its customers.

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Imagine what your life would be like if your days were as immersed in nature as they are in technology. That's a question and challenge posed in Richard Louv's new book The Nature Principle. the new book THE NATURE PRINCIPLE. It's not an anti-technology argument, but rather a suggestion that our urban, high-tech lives are missing something crucially important. Encounters with nature enrich humans in ways we don't even fully understand yet...and those encounters are rapidly disappearing. IRichard Louv's new book, The Nature Principal: Human Restoration And The End Of The Nature Deficit Disorder, expands on his thesis that our society has developed such faith in technology that we don't realize how human capacities are enhanced through the power of the natural world.

The reputations of the major credit rating agencies were seriously damaged in the subprime mortgage crisis. Jules Kroll is starting a new firm that promises to scrutinize underlying assets more closely. And he's looking to to be backed by pension funds and other investors instead of the financial firms selling the investments.

At Project Share, started by philanthropist Bernie Marcus, brain-injured troops get cognitive therapy rehabilitation to relearn basic tasks of life — care the Pentagon's Tricare health plan won't pay for.

In a country that seems headed toward austerity, what will become of the government's two keystone entitlements, Social Security and Medicare? The public trustees of the two programs, Charles Blahous and Robert Reischauer, say they're worried that the day of reckoning is here.

40-Year-Old Orangutan Becomes a Star in New Doc

Health officials say more widespread testing for HIV is one of the keys to curbing the epidemic. They say testing is also the gateway to proper care and treatment. Even so, many sexually active people don't know their status.

Stanford University's School of Engineering had more books than its library could hold. So school administrators built a new library -- with even less space for books. NPR's Laura Sydell reports that Stanford's counterintuitive solution marks a definite move toward digital collections over print.

Modern medicine can perform miracles. But it can't offer spiritual guidance or emotional support when a person is sick or dying. While doctors and nurses work to cure the body, hospital chaplains try to heal the soul.