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    495: Hot In My Backyard

    May 17, 2013
    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.

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    205: Plan B

    May 24, 2013
    There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.

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    496: When Patents Attack...Part Two!

    May 31, 2013
    About two years ago, we did a program about a mysterious business in Texas that buys up patents and then threatens other companies with lawsuits for violating those patents. A lot of stuff has happened since then, including some companies fighting back against this mysterious business. In the process, they've revealed all sorts of secrets about who's behind it.

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