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Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

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Law
3:56 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

California's Proposition 8 Gets Its Day In The Supreme Court

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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 4:58 pm

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Inside the courtroom, the debate over California's gay marriage ban was joined with sharp questions and a splash of humor. But where will all lead is still unknown. As NPR's Carrie Johnson reports, expectations for a sweeping and decisive ruling may be overblown.

CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Chief Justice John Roberts set the tone in the opening moments. Almost immediately, he pressed the lawyer defending California's gay marriage ban on the most basic of points.

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Author Interviews
2:59 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

You're So Dumb, You Probably Think This Book Is About Getting Slapped

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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 4:58 pm

William Irvine is a philosophy professor by day, but he has an unusual sideline: He's also a collector of insults. Irvine has gathered some of his favorite jibes into a new book called A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt — And Why They Shouldn't.

Irvine tells NPR's Audie Cornish that one of his favorite masters of insult is Winston Churchill. "Nancy Astor [said] to Winston Churchill, 'if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee,' " Irvine says, to which Churchill replied, " 'If you were my wife, I would drink it.' "

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The Two-Way
2:21 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

Outside the Supreme Court, The Arguments Continue

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A member of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization (right) is confronted by a pro-gay-marriage activist outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 4:58 pm

As oral arguments were beginning Tuesday in the first of two same-sex marriage cases inside the Supreme Court, the steps in front of the court were filled with throngs of what looked to be mostly gay-marriage supporters, spilling out in front of the building and to the other side of the street.

About a half hour earlier, a parade of traditional-marriage supporters had arrived, later headed to a rally on the National Mall.

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Buried In Grain
11:41 am
Tue March 26, 2013

Fines Slashed In Grain Bin Entrapment Deaths

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Friends and classmates of Wyatt Whitebread, Alex Pacas and Will Piper watch as rescuers work to free the boys from the bin (center) full of thousands of bushels of corn. Only Piper survived.
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Dave Newcomb of the Illinois Fire Service Institute demonstrates the use of a grain rescue tube during an agricultural safety conference in Iowa in November.
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Grain operations manager Austin Clubb, wearing a body harness for safety, gazes into the "cone" inside a massive grain bin at Amana Farms in Homestead, Iowa. Cones, which can trap workers, form in the flowing grain as it's drained from bins.
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The 2010 rescue and recovery effort at Bin No. 9 (right) spanned 13 hours. More than 200 people worked to rescue Piper and recover the bodies of Whitebread and Pacas.
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Bill Field of Purdue University has tracked grain bin entrapments and deaths since the 1970s. His database is used by the grain industry and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Wyatt Whitebread was the youngest son of Carla Whitebread, a former Army major and helicopter pilot. She now teaches high school Spanish and seeks solace with her horses at a friend's stables.
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Whitebread was 14 when he was sucked under the corn in the grain bin just down the street from his family's home in Mount Carroll. This photo sits atop a makeshift shrine in a corner of the home.
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Lisa Jones' kids were close friends with Whitebread, Pacas and Piper, and she often hosted them at her home. The family now holds backyard memorial gatherings on the anniversary of the grain bin tragedy.
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Piper walks in the woods behind his parents' home in Mount Carroll, Ill. He and Pacas were friends, and used to float on inner tubes in the nearby river.
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Workers drain corn from Haasbach LLC's Bin No. 9 as rescuers work inside to free three trapped boys July 28, 2010, in Mount Carroll, Ill. Triangular-shaped holes like the one pictured (left) were cut all around the bin to drain the corn evenly and keep the structure from collapsing.
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This photo from OSHA's investigation file shows harnesses and ropes hanging unused in a shed close to Bin No. 9. OSHA cited Haasbach LLC for failing to provide its workers with required safety devices, and for failing to train them in safety procedures.
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Will Piper and Annette Pacas visit the grave of Annette's son, Alex, at Oak Hill Cemetery in Mount Carroll, Ill. Piper says he hopes to raise money to replace the makeshift, plastic marker with a permanent gravestone.
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OSHA investigators took this photo of crusted corn, also known as bridged corn, stuck to the side of Haasbach's Bin No. 9 shortly after the July 2010 deaths. Working under bridged corn is prohibited by federal law because it can peel away without warning and trap workers.
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The home-plate shaped patches repaired cuts in the structure that were made during the 2010 rescue efforts. The cuts with special saws were required to drain thousands of bushels of corn.
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Wyatt Whitebread is seen in the center of a family snapshot that includes his mother and father, Carla and Gary, and his older brother (left).
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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 4:58 pm

The night before he died, Wyatt Whitebread couldn't stand the thought of going back to the grain bins on the edge of Mount Carroll, Ill.

The mischievous and popular 14-year-old had been excited about his first real job, he told Lisa Jones, the mother of some of his closest friends, as she drove him home from a night out for pizza. But nearly two weeks later he told her he was tired of being sent into massive storage bins clogged with corn.

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Economy
5:50 pm
Mon March 25, 2013

As Cardinal, New Pope Walked Fine Line On Economic Issues

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The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio walks outside the chapel during a Mass at the Barracas neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2003. Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis, is said to have the same position as his predecessors on economic matters.
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Originally published on Mon March 25, 2013 9:02 pm

He took his name from a 13th century saint who gave up his wealth and threw in his lot with the poor. As cardinal in Argentina, he eschewed the trappings of power and privilege, taking public transportation and even cooking his own meals.

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