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Update: 2013-05-21

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire. Lots of people were wondering if global warming had finally arrived, here at home. This week, stories about this new reality.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/495/hot-in-my-backyard

Update: 2013-05-16

If you knew you had six months to live, what would you do? Many of us have asked that question at some point in our lives, whether hypothetically or not. Now scientific discovery is giving us the ability to ask the question in a new way: If you knew you were at high risk for developing a terminal illness, what would you do? The disease may not exist yet, the prognosis might not been ascertained, but developments in cancer research have made it possible for high risk individuals to determine their genetic predisposition and take preventative measures.

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/op-ed/angelina-jolie-and-every-womans-choice