Books
4:27 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Encyclopedia Brown: The Great Sleuth From My Youth

Originally published on Wed July 18, 2012 10:35 am

Donald Sobol, the creator of the beloved character Encyclopedia Brown, died last week of natural causes, his family says. He was 87. The first in the Encyclopedia Brown series book was published in 1963, and the series has never gone out of print.

Crime novelist and forensic pathologist Jonathan Hayes has this appreciation of the character Sobol gave young readers.

While other boys got hooked on books about sports legends and race car drivers, there was something about Donald Sobol's boy detective Encyclopedia Brown that spoke to me right away.

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Channel 5
4:17 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Inspector Lewis: Fearful Symmetry

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Laurence Fox as DS Hathaway.

Sometimes murder extends its reach even beyond the medieval walls of Oxford. So it goes when suburbanites Nick and Honey Addams return home after a night out to find their babysitter, Jessica Lake, dead, her wrists symmetrically bound to the Adams's bed. Her death pose is shocking; more so is Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and DS Hathaway's (Laurence Fox) discovery of fetish photographs featuring Jessica in similar restraints.

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Money & Politics
4:16 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

New Romney Fund Highlights Fundraising Muscle

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Mitt Romney arrives at the Utah Olympic Park for a private dinner during a donor's conference in Park City, Utah, on June 22.

Originally published on Mon July 23, 2012 2:30 pm

Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says a recently formed arm of the organization collected more than $10 million a week during a three-month period this spring. And most of the money care from high-end donors.

Romney Victory Inc., got its first four contributions on April 6 — three donations of $50,000 each and one check for $350. Since early April, it's pulled in $140 million.

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First Listen
4:13 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

First Listen: The Gaslight Anthem, 'Handwritten'

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The Gaslight Anthem's new album, Handwritten, comes out July 24.

Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 4:23 pm

Audio for this feature is no longer available.

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Channel 5
4:11 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

ACL: Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel

Singer-songwriter author, poet and actor, Willie Nelson rose to national stardom during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but has remained both a musical and cultural icon through the decades. Since their inception in 1970, Asleep at the Wheel has won nine Grammy Awards, released more than 20 studio albums and have charted more than 20 singles on Billboard’s country charts. Tonight these country legends grace the Austin City Limits stage performing songs from their newest release, Willie and the Wheel.

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Science
4:04 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Can Science Plant Brain Seeds That Make You Vote?

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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 6:03 pm

In 2008, just a few days before the Democratic presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, a large group of Pennsylvania voters got a very unusual phone call.

It was one of those get-out-the-vote reminder calls that people get every election cycle, but in addition to the bland exhortations about the importance of the election, potential voters were asked a series of carefully constructed questions:

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Channel 5
4:03 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Homeland: Immigration in America

Probe one of the nation’s most polarizing issues and a key topic in the 2012 election: immigration. The three-part series presents contemporary stories of immigrants — legal and illegal — and those who confront them, help them, employ them and craft legislation that affects them. Ray Suarez, senior PBS NewsHour correspondent, narrates.

Airs Friday, July 20, at 9pm on Channel 5.

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World Cafe
3:58 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Next: Eme Alfonso

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Eme Alfonso.
  • Hear two new songs by Eme Alfonso
The Two-Way
3:46 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Woman Accuses George Zimmerman Of Molesting Her For Years

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George Zimmerman during a court hearing on June 29.

The case of George Zimmerman has taken a surprising turn today: In an audio tape released by prosecutors today, a woman accuses Zimmerman of molesting her for about a decade.

Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman has claimed he killed the unarmed 17-year-old in self-defense. But Martin's family and supporters allege Zimmerman racially profiled the African-American teenager and followed him despite a police dispatcher's advice not to do that.

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The Salt
3:44 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

Some Athletes Reject High-Tech Sports Fuel In Favor Of Real Food

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Some athletes are choosing water and real food instead of sports drinks and processed bars and gels.

Originally published on Thu July 19, 2012 11:22 am

As the world's greatest athletes gear up for the 2012 Olympic Games in London this month, viewers like us are likely to see a spike in televised ads for sports drinks, nutritional bars, and energy gel — that goop that so many runners and cyclists suck from foil pouches.

Powerade, in fact, is the official sports drink of the 2012 Olympics, and if it's true what these kinds of ads imply, processed sports foods and neon-colored drinks are the stuff that gold medalists are made of.

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