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At the center of Menzel's latest film is a Chaplinesque everyman named Jan Dite (whose name translates as John Child). When we first meet Jan (Oldrich Kaiser) he's being released from a 1950s Prague prison after serving a sentence imposed by the Communists. Now's he's been dropped off in the middle of an abandoned German town near the Czech border where he slowly begins to clean things up. As he cleans, he takes us on a journey back through his life.

Projecting athletic prowess has been a top priority for the Chinese government over the years. And it is some of the country's littlest citizens who must carry this responsibility. From the age of 4, select Chinese children are molded into the nation's elite athletes.

One reason colleges have a hard time stopping sexual assault is a misconception about who is committing these crimes. The assumption is that rapes are often committed by young men whose judgment is impaired by drinking. But one researcher says many rapists are serial predators and intentionally look for vulnerable women.

Supporters of Prop. 19 say that Mexican drug cartels will take a major financial hit if marijuana is legalized in California. A recent study by the Rand Corporation calls into question some of the figures that are being cited by Prop. 19 proponents. So, what kind of impact could Prop. 19 have on the cartels, and drug trafficking in the state?

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel Melville returned to San Diego after a two-and-one-half year expedition. Nearly 50 research projects in the western Pacific Ocean were complete

What are San Diego scientists doing to find cures for some of the world's rarest diseases? We speak to KPBS Reporter Tom Fudge about the local efforts taking place at the Sanford Burnham Institute to find treatments and cures for "orphan" diseases.

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Mayor Jerry Sanders and other city leaders are pushing for a $750 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, but how will they pay for it? We discuss how Proposition 26 and uncertain redevelopment revenue could affect the proposal.

This is not opera as we know it. French composer Pascal Dusapin's chamber opera "To Be Sung" combines new music with a Gertrude Stein text. The graduate students at UCSD's Department of Music perform an ambitious production of "To Be Sung" in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall this week. We'll talk with the director, soprano Susan Narucki and members of the creative team.

Duplicity is a strange project from Tony Gilroy who's probably best known for adapting the Bourne books to film and more recently for writing a directing…