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  • Talking Points: Smithsonian cuts, new bird flu in China, and a lucky dog

    Talking Points

    Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    Is the Smithsonian closing its museums to make ends meet? The museums won't close entirely but budget-driven cutbacks in the number of exhibit guards means the Smithsonian Institution will start rolling closures of some galleries and will likely postpone or cancel some exhibits for 2014 and...

  • Talking Points: Has the Pentagon backed off new definition of combat?

    Michael Hedges

    Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    Has the Pentagon backed off new definition of combat? Under intense pressure from veterans groups, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel canceled a new combat medal that would have recognized actions of soldiers who launch drone strikes from remote locations. The Distinguished Warfare Medal would...

  • Talking points: Lamborghini bargain, Masters mastery, cannabis cake

    Taylor Holland

    Published: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

    It sold for how much? A 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo sold for $88,000 at public auction Saturday alongside a host of other items seized by officers from a convicted drug trafficker. Washoe County, Nev., police in 2011 arrested and convicted the drug dealer and found $200,000 in cash, a...

  • Talking Points: Gangnam-Style diplomacy, gambling debt, space war

    Talking Points

    Published: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    Has the top YouTube artist gone political? The South Korean artist PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, said he hoped that listeners in N. Korea enjoyed his new single "Gentleman" despite the tensions between the two nations. PSY's hit "Gangnam Style" was the first YouTube video to reach a...

  • Talking Points: Dark lightning, fake wine, PCs

    Talking Points

    Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    What is dark lightning? About 260 years after Ben Franklin flew a kite in a storm, scientists are researching a new kind of lightning, dark lightning, which occurs at the same altitudes used by commercial airlines and which may be blasting those planes with gamma rays. The dose of radiation is...

  • Talking Points: Number of sinners, a sweet heist and worst jobs

    Talking Points

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    So how many couples are really living in sin? Quite a few. Three out of four women in the U.S. have lived with a partner without being married by the age of 30, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those 40 percent got married within three years and another 33...

  • Talking Points: Lizard people in government, time travel, rowing the Atlantic

    Talking Points

    Published: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    Do lizard people run the government? According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, 4 percent of Americans believe "shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power" -- and that was just one of the weird conspiracy theories that some...

  • Talking Points: Drum circle, home runs, time off on Mars

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 7, 2013

    What's the deal with the drum circle at Malcolm X Park? For more than 40 years, drummers and dancers have gathered on Sundays at the park near Adams Morgan, officially called Meridian Hill Park but known also as Malcolm X Park. All levels of musical talent can participate, from folks at the...

  • Talking Points: Voting age in Takoma Park, marijuana and Enron

    Talking Points

    Published: Thu, Apr 4, 2013

    Are 16 year olds in Takoma Park voting? The city is considering lowering the voting age to 16, though it can only do so in local elections for mayor and city council, not the congressional or presidential contests. The federal voting age was set at 18 in 1971, but Takoma officials said...

  • Talking Points: Fake plane crash, dropping cable TV, Tolkien's real ring of power

    Talking Points

    Updated: Tue, Apr 2, 2013

    What was so odd about the plane accident in Yucaipa, Calif? It wasn't real. As an April Fools' Day joke a Billy Cheesman Jr. used a forklift to arrange a small aircraft on the fence that runs in front of his equipment rental business, as if it had nosedived there. He also strung yellow caution...


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