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The Two-Way
3:35 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Scientists: 'No Options' To Stop Massive Asteroids On Collision Course

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Actor Bruce Willis on the surface of an asteroid from the movie Armageddon. Lawmakers are questioning the likelihood of the movie's plot becoming reality.
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Originally published on Wed March 20, 2013 4:40 pm

Without "a few years" warning, humans currently have no capacity to stop an asteroid on a collision course with the planet, scientists told a Senate panel Wednesday.

"Right now we have no options," said former astronaut Ed Lu. "If you dont know where they are, there's nothing you can do."

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It's All Politics
3:18 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Voter Cast-Off Charlie Crist Tops Florida Governor's Race Poll

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Originally published on Wed March 20, 2013 3:33 pm

Democrats who haven't controlled the governor's mansion in Tallahassee in 14 years could have a good opportunity to win it back next November.

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The Salt
3:17 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Recipes, Not Rockets: Cookbook Offers New Lens On Gaza

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Fatema Qaadan prepares fatta, a meal of buttery rice and griddle bread served with roasted meat.
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Members of the Zeitun Women's Cooperative prepare a meal. These women take catering orders for special events, using the proceeds to help support their families in an area with "nearly universal male under- and unemployment," the authors of The Gaza Kitchen write.
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Two men sell foods on the street. In Gaza, home foods are "almost exclusively prepared by women," the authors write. Restaurant food, they write, "is nearly always prepared by men."
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Fatema Qaadan prepares fatta, a meal of buttery rice and griddle bread served with roasted meat.
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Filfil Mat'houn is a paste made of red chili peppers conserved in oil and sold as a condiment.
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Zibdiyit gambari, or shrimp cooked in a clay pot. "Of all of Gaza's delicacies," the authors write, "this recipe is the one visitors most frequently request."
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At the Al Manar Factory, sesame seeds are roasted then ground between millstones. The paste is then bottled and sold as one of Gaza's best-known brands of tahini.
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Fatta, a meal of buttery rice served with roasted meat and griddle bread soaked in broth, is often made for guests.
Credit Courtesy of Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt
Members of the Zeitun Women's Cooperative prepare a meal. These women take catering orders for special events, using the proceeds to help support their families in an area with "nearly universal male under- and unemployment," the authors of The Gaza Kitchen write.
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Um Sultan and her family own a farm in the eastern Gaza Strip village of Bani Sayla. Before 1948, her family had owned farms near Jaffa, Gaza.
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A map of historic Gaza before the first major Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
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Originally published on Sun March 24, 2013 9:21 am

When you think about the Gaza Strip, do you think "organic farming"? How about "family dairy"? Would you expect California pistachios to flavor made-in-Gaza baklava? Have you heard that Hamas has a 10-year plan to develop sustainable local agriculture?

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Shots - Health News
3:13 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

How A Patient's Suicide Changed A Doctor's Approach To Guns

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Dr. Frank Dumont at his clinic in Estes Park, Colo.
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Dr. Frank Dumont holds a gift from a patient who committed suicide with a gun. In hindsight, Dumont sees it as a farewell from the man who was one of his favorite patients.
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Originally published on Fri March 22, 2013 9:11 am

Dr. Frank Dumont knew one of his favorite patients was getting depressed.

When Dumont first started seeing him in his family practice, the man was in his 70s. He was active and fit; he enjoyed hiking into his 80s. But then things started to change.

"He started complaining of his memory starting to slip," Dumont says. The man would forget where he had placed objects, and he'd struggle to remember simple words and phrases.

Dumont prescribed antidepressants and saw him every eight weeks or so.

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The Two-Way
2:04 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

When It Comes To Cyberwarfare, North Korea Is No Newbie

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Members of the Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA) check on cyberattacks Wednesday.
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Originally published on Wed March 20, 2013 2:25 pm

Who or what caused a takedown of computer systems at banks and broadcasters in South Korea on Wednesday is still a matter of speculation, but suspicion immediately and unsurprisingly fell on Seoul's archenemy to the north.

If true, it wouldn't be the first time that North Korea, often regarded as technologically backward, has successfully wielded the computer as weapon.

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