4:44pm

Fri October 7, 2011
Shots - Health Blog

Impotence Drug Approved To Treat Enlarged Prostate Symptoms

Credit Eli Lilly

In other men's health news today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Cialis as a once-a-day treatment for symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate.

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Fri October 7, 2011

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Fri October 7, 2011
Mitt Romney

Romney Calls For A Bigger, Stronger Military

Credit Mic Smith / AP

There is a tradition of Republican presidential candidates laying out their foreign-policy views at The Citadel.

John McCain did it four years ago; George W. Bush did it eight years before that. On Friday, it was Mitt Romney's turn to speak at the South Carolina military academy.

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4:06pm

Fri October 7, 2011
Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, Performance Artist Packs Up His Bling

Credit Courtesy of Aman Mojedidi

Performance artist Aman Mojedidi moved from the U.S. to Afghanistan in 2003, as one of what he says were many Afghan-Americans and Afghan-Europeans who thought their homeland was finally on the mend.

"It was really part of that wave of hyphenated Afghans and internationals wanting to come to Afghanistan, post-Taliban, [to] do something, rebuild, reconstruct, that kind of thing," he says.

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3:37pm

Fri October 7, 2011
World

Battles Against Oppressive Regimes Led To Nobel

Originally published on Fri October 7, 2011 5:58 pm

Credit AP

The three women who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize were lauded for their courage in standing up to the violence and brutality of oppressive regimes in Liberia and Yemen.

The five-member Nobel Committee in Norway announced Friday that it would split the coveted award three ways, honoring Africa's first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Liberian campaigner Leymah Gbowee; and Yemeni democracy activist Tawakkul Karman.

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3:00pm

Fri October 7, 2011
Middle East

In Syria, Focus Moves To Armed Deserters

Credit Bilal Hussein / AP

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev issued a blunt message to Syria's leadership on Friday, saying it should either reform or step down.

Medvedev's statement in Moscow was significant because Russia has been one of Syria's strongest allies. And just four days earlier, Russia and China used their U.N. vetoes to block a resolution that could have led to tougher diplomatic measures against Syria.

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2:51pm

Fri October 7, 2011
Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

After Jobs, Who Will Be Next American Visionary?

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 11:20 am

Visionary. Uncompromising. Intuitive. Risk-taking. Steve Jobs — the man who helped build a company and used it to transform multiple industries and popular culture — could have been lifted from the pages of a college textbook on how to be a successful CEO.

He was "the most incredible businessperson in the world," Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told CBS News on Thursday, a day after Jobs' death.

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2:24pm

Fri October 7, 2011
World Cafe

World Cafe Looks Back: The Beatles

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Throughout the month of October, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Cafe. Each day, we'll revisit some of the best and most memorable interviews of the past 20 years.

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1:53pm

Fri October 7, 2011
Economy

Thought The Economy Was Tanking? Not So Fast

Originally published on Sun October 9, 2011 7:06 am

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A few weeks ago, dismal economic reports seemed to be pointing to one conclusion: The economy was slipping into another recession. Investors fled the stock market, pundits predicted doom and political leaders pointed fingers, trying to fix blame for a faltering economy.

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1:43pm

Fri October 7, 2011
The Two-Way

Rallies Decry Death Sentence For Confessed Assassin

Originally published on Fri October 7, 2011 1:44 pm

Credit Sajid Mehmood / NPR

Crowds protested in Pakistan's major cities Friday, against the death sentence handed down last week to the self-confessed killer of Punjab province's Gov. Salman Taseer. One of the governor's bodyguards, Mumtaz Qadri, shot him in cold blood outside a café in Islamabad in January.

Religious parties supporting Qadri rallied in solidarity one day after Qadri filed an appeal challenging the death sentence handed down by an anti-terror court.

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