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Toyota Recalls Prius, Hybrids To Fix Brake Problems
Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems. It's the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
Toyota Recalls 437,000 Hybrids Worldwide
Toyota says it is recalling the Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems - the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
National Labor Relations Board Nominee Languishes In Senate
One of the many Obama administration appointments awaiting action in the Senate is the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. His appointment has become a flash point, not so much for his views, but for the opportunity presented for Republicans to flex their filibuster muscles.
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Doctor Works To Get Young Men Out Of 'Wrong Place'
When young African-American men showed up at Boston City Hospital with knife and gunshot wounds, most were thought to be thugs or drug dealers. But Dr. John Rich took time to interview these victims and found out what was really behind their injuries.
Imagining 'The Next Hundred Million' Americans
The U.S. population is expected to reach 400 million by mid-century. In his book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, Joel Kotkin argues that future will be green, diverse and suburban. Kotkin explains how the nation's changing demographics will transform American life and communities.
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Wildlife Rehabers Reverse Damage Caused on Highway
In the rural West, summer is roadkill season. But what happens to animals who live through their encounter with our cars, injured, but not dead? Fish and Wildlife agencies, the police, and most vets don’t take them in. That’s where wildlife rehabilitators come in -- the people who act as the emergency room doctors for injured critters. Jessica Robinson has this story.
Savage Rapids Lesson: Removing Dams No Easy Task
After two decades of conflict, crews are finally jackhammering the Savage Rapids Dam into oblivion. The southern Oregon dam on the Rogue River doesn't even produce electricity. Yet, removing it proved complicated and controversial. Efforts to return other rivers to free-flowing channels are getting more attention across the Northwest and in Congress. But what happened with the Savage Rapids Dam gives some indication of how difficult it can be to rip out these engineering feats of the last century. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this story.
Oregon's Poetry Out Loud Finalist Signs Her Words
Today, a high school student from Oregon will appear in a competition in Washington D.C. called Poetry Out Loud. She’s eighteen-year-old Tiffany Hill of Eugene. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest in which teens memorize and deliver classic poems. Only, Hill won’t be saying anything ... at least not out loud. Hill is the first deaf student to compete in the national competition -- she’ll deliver her poems in American Sign Language. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this profile.To watch Hill signing "Inside Out" by Diane Wakoski in the state finals, click here.
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Reflections from Land’s End
Since moving to Oregon almost a decade ago and spending my thirties here—easy come, easy go—I’ve adjusted to the differences ranging from language to landscape, plant-life to home-life, names, faces, and places.
Watching the sun go down over the Pacific ocean, tolerating inland fog (even the freezing kind) and trying to sort out berry-talk: salmon, huckle, thimble, goose—even cranberries float around parts of Oregon, and of course let us not forget one of Oregon’s newer immigrant berries, grapes.
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Rupert Says Free TV is Dead
The commercial television networks, and therefore most local television stations, are having a tough time. With advertising revenue in decline from the soft national economy, new competition for advertising dollars from cable TV and Internet media couldn’t have come at a worse time. And audience ratings for over-the-air television have been dropping for some time, a shrinkage that further worsens the advertising income picture for both networks and local stations.
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Shifting Patterns: Thinking about Climate Change in the State of Jefferson
Photographs by Pepper Trail & Jim Chamberlain
In December 2008, a report was published that gave residents of the State of Jefferson a frightening look at our future: Preparing for Climate Change in the Rogue River Basin of Southwest Oregon.
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