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The beleaguered mid-Atlantic will now resume digging out after logging 3 feet of snow in a week. The second major storm within days roared through the region Wednesday, leaving a fresh blanket from Washington to New York.

Pamela MacPhee, a mother of three, was a surrogate mom for a family member whose wife suffered from cancer-related infertility. She describes her experience in a new book, "Delivering Hope."

The political crisis in Zimbabwe has led to breakdown in law and order, with a marked increase in sexual assaults against women and girls. Betty Makoni is the founder of Girl Child Network, a group that tries to save girls from abuse in Zimbabwe. She shares her own story of abuse and discusses the challenge of preventing abuse in her increasingly unstable country.

California's money problems are forcing public universities and colleges to turn away hundreds of thousands of students this year just when the number of applications is at an all time high. KPBS Edu

Michel Gondry's Interior Design, one of three tales in Tokyo! (Liberation Entertainment)

President-elect Obama completed his top Cabinet selections, saying his team of advisers can meet economic challenges but warning that recovery will be years off. Among his choices Friday were Ray LaHood to head the Transportation Department and Hilda Solis for labor secretary.

One in five soldiers reports coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury, often from roadside bombs and Humvee wrecks. Although symptoms are hard to identify, Army doctors are finding more cases because of baseline testing that began two years ago.

In the deadliest single attack since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a car bomb kills at least 115 people and wounds more than 130. The suicide bomber struck as prospective members of the country's police and national guard lined up for physical exams in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad.

Setting his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness, V.S. Ramachandran reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. In his new book, the neuroscientist takes us on a tour of some seemingly inexplicable behaviors of the brain. For instance, how can a totally blind person locate a spot of light on a wall? Or, a patient in coma wake up to answer the phone and then lapse back into a coma?

Imagine having a revolutionary idea, and then sitting on it for more than 20 years. That's what Charles Darwin did. His theory that nature — not God — was responsible for the marvelous variety of life on Earth was heretical. But then a young butterfly collector forced Darwin's hand.