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A new report finds groundwater management plans in California are outdated, lack important details, and need significant improvement.

Listen to the best musical interludes heard throughout the week on These Days. This week's picks include tracks from Big Mama Thornton, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Salt-N-Pepa, The Isley Brothers, Frank

The family who helped inspire the HBO series Big Love has written a tell-all of sorts. In their new book, Love Times Three, the Dargers tell their story of plural marriage, parenting 23 children and living in a community where many view polygamy with scorn.

Even though more than 200,000 jobs were added to the payroll this March, a large number of people without college degrees are finding it increasingly hard to find work. Economists call this phenomenon a bifurcated recovery, and they say the situation hasn't bottomed out yet.

Americans are fascinated by pirates: swashbuckling, salt-soaked seafarers who sport blousy shirts, spiffy vests, leather boots, eye patches, peg legs and the occasional parrot on the shoulder. But will the recent hijackings by Somali pirates make them not so lovable?

This year's heavy snow is bad news for many businesses, such as retailers and airlines. But other firms are profiting from the storms. Among them are the obvious — ski resorts and hardware stores. But it's also a good time to own a liquor store.

Thanks to tech companies, Utah generated jobs at a faster rate than any other state in the country — with the single exception of North Dakota. The outdoor life is attracting thousands of workers, but the boom is also being fed by the recruitment of top researchers and venture capital investment — a formula that helped create Silicon Valley.

Derek Williams' dad was around when he was growing up, but it was his mom, he says, who taught him what it takes to be a good man. When she died in 2009, he had to learn from both parents' examples.

When a body washed up on the shores of New York's East River in 1897, the race to solve the murder sparked one of the country's first great newspaper wars. Weekend Edition's literary detective Paul Collins tracks that war's progress in his new book, The Murder of the Century.