Tuesday In Depth: June 19, 2012
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Military suicide rate surges to nearly one per day in 2012
In the first 155 days of the year, there were 154 suicides for active-duty troops. That far outdistances the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan. Why are so many veterans committing suicide and what can be done to prevent it?
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BBC: Lifecycle of an athlete in Jamaica
We're playing the second in a four-part BBC series about the lifecycle of an athlete. In this episode, Claudia Hammond visits Jamaica's National Stadium in Kingston to find out why this small island turns out so many world class track athletes.
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U.S. system of weather forecasting satellites in 'precipitous decline'
The total number of scientific instruments monitoring Earth from space could decline by 75 percent by 2020. These satellites provide about 90 percent of the data used by the National Weather Service for forecasting.
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Other features
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9:50 a.m.
Minn. law enforcement fighting 'epidemic' of heroin use
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Federal transportation bill stalled in Congress
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Book pick: 'Mission to Paris' by Alan Furst
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The Daily Circuit Blog
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Op-ed pick: The Senate’s guest worker program will provide a flexible workforce
June 13, 2013, 16:06 PM in Economy, Business & Jobs "The size of the guest-worker program is designed to adjust automatically in response to changing U.S. labor needs, growing in good years when the economy needs more foreign workers and shrinking when more Americans are out of work." -
3 things to buy at the farmers market this weekend
June 7, 2013, 13:06 PM in News & Trends After we taped the Friday Roundtable, I asked the panelists what we should pick up at the farmer’s market this weekend. Stephanie Meyer recommends morels. Amy Thielen says to buy dandelion greens if you can find them. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s a fan of rhubarb: Here’s what you can do with rhubarb. I like to cook… -
Exploring the science of taste over a nice French meal
May 30, 2013, 12:05 PM in Science The science of taste (and smells) is the subject of the 11:00 a.m. hour on The Daily Circuit on Thursday, May 30. Kerri Miller talks with Stuart Firestein, who chairs the biology sciences department at Columbia University. Firestein is participating in “The Taste of Science,” an event at this year’s World Science Festival in New… -
Could Julie Rosen challenge Dayton? Roundtable members think so
May 24, 2013, 10:05 AM in Politics & Government “Think about how hard it would be for Dayton to run against a moderate, Republican woman. Yikes.”
Spotlight topics on The Daily Circuit
News & Trends
- Conflict between privacy rights and security is nothing new
- A look at modern masculinity
- If you carry a purse, NFL games may not be your bag
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Politics & Government
- The impact of the Roberts Court
- Writer argues for a different kind of border security
- NSA leak: Debating the balance of security, privacy
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Science
- Supreme Court decides a gene can't be patented
- Connecticut poised to enact first GMO food labeling law in US
- Scientists, philosophers debate the 'conundrum of consciousness'
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Arts & Culture
- 23 authors whose books could change your life
- Best music of the year, so far
- A remembrance of Lt. Col. Mark Weber
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Health & Medicine
- Judge's transplant order undermines fairness of organ-donor system, critics say
- It's been a lovely spring, if you're a mosquito
- Grant aims to improve heart-attack care in rural Minnesota
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Education
- Teach for America suffers a setback
- Minneapolis teacher contract talks: Not just about the money
- Study will shed light on dispute over U's administrative costs
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Economy, Business & Jobs
- In a struggling economy, rediscovering the power of thrift
- The housing rebound: Some say this time it's for real
- How your credit score can hurt your job search
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Books
Latest author interview
Anna Badkhen's latest novel weaves Afghanistan's beauty and violence
June 13, 2013, 11:20 AM
Kerri Miller's Pick of the Week
Kerri's book pick is 'The Silver Star' by Jeannette Walls
Week of June 18, 2013
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Kerri Miller joined MPR News in June 2004 as host of MPR's News' Midmorning and Talking Volumes. Before that she was an award-winning television reporter for KARE 11. She has been a radio and television news reporter since 1981.
Tom Weber, Co-Host
Tom Weber has reported on K12 education and served as a general assignment reporter since joining MPR News in 2008. He was a news anchor and reporter for KWMU in St. Louis for more than five years. His reporting has aired on national radio programs, including "Morning Edition" and "Marketplace."
Stephanie Curtis, Social media host
Stephanie Curtis has produced events, daily news shows, documentaries, conferences and call-ins for MPR News. She also was among the pioneering producers who launched The Current. You can hear her discuss movies every Thursday on The Cube Critics.
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