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5:05 am
Sat March 2, 2013

Let The Cuts Begin: Sequestration Deadline Passes

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Originally published on Sat March 2, 2013 10:04 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.

Sequestration is official. President Obama signed an executive order on spending late last night as required by law. He sent the order to Congress and that triggered budget cuts known as sequestration. Earlier in the day, the president met with congressional leaders and when they left without a deal, he took questions at the White House.

NPR's Ari Shapiro was there.

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5:05 am
Sat March 2, 2013

Dealing With 'Root Causes' To Tackle Incarceration Rates

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Originally published on Sat March 2, 2013 10:04 am

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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News, I'm Scott Simon. Jeffrey Beard has watched America's prisons grow larger and larger every year adding prisoner after prisoner. He began working in the Pennsylvania Corrections system in the early 1970s when there were about 8,000 prisoners. He was secretary of corrections by the time he left in 2010 and by that time Pennsylvania had more than 50,000 people in its prisons.

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5:05 am
Sat March 2, 2013

'It Can't Go On Forever': Michigan Steps In To Help Detroit

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Originally published on Sat March 2, 2013 10:04 am

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The Two-Way
7:01 pm
Fri March 1, 2013

Inventor Dies As 'Breathable' Nail Polish Becomes Hit With Muslim Women

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A worker paints fingernails with O2M polish at an Inglot shop in a Polish shopping center. The breathable nail polish has become a hit with Muslim women.
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Wojciech Inglot gestures as he stands in a room containing ingredients for his cosmetics in Przemysl, Poland. He died Feb. 23 at the age of 57.
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The death of a Polish nail polish inventor has opened a window into a world of specialty cosmetics. Wojciech Inglot was a chemist and entrepreneur who tried to come up with a more healthful alternative to traditional nail polish. He died Feb. 23 at the age of 57.

Inglot leaves behind a market of grateful customers: Muslim women, who have flocked to his invention of a "breathable" polish that allows air and moisture to reach the nail bed. Some scholars say the cosmetic is uniquely permissible under Islamic law.

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5:03 pm
Fri March 1, 2013

Michigan Officials Take Control Of Detroit's Empty Wallet

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With a declining population and dwindling tax base, Detroit has grappled with severe financial problems in the past decade.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in February displays a chart to illustrate the troubled state of Detroit's finances.
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Originally published on Fri March 1, 2013 7:01 pm

In a small public-TV studio before an invitation-only audience of 30 people, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder made his case Friday for taking control of Detroit's finances away from the city's elected officials.

The state's signature city is grappling with a declining population, a dwindling tax base and decades of mismanagement — including corruption so pervasive at times that former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is currently on trial for federal racketeering charges.

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