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Weatherly Joins Parole Board

By Alabama Public RadioMontgomery, AL – Velinda A-J Weatherly of Forestdale has become the first black woman to serve on Alabama's parole board. Governor…

Baking A Little Invention Into Savory Cakes

Savory cakes are wonderfully versatile. You can follow the basic recipe and add any vegetables you like — fresh, roasted or sauteed. If you add spices, cheese, capers, olives or even beans, you combine all of the elements of a meal into one satisfying package.

Wildflowers in Arizona

NPR's Ketzel Levine explores the natural beauty of wildflowers in Arizona. Last fall the area got about 4 inches of rain, which made for an early-blooming, and record-setting wildflower season this year. (6:10-6:35) For more, check out Talking Plants.

Old books in a secondhand bookstore. Some of them are peeling.

Epilogue

Lauren Weedman talks about her memoir, which peeks inside her failing marriage and desire for human connection. Then, in the final round, answers are one of Modern Library's top 100 English novels.

MRI scans suggests words stimulate different regions of the brain depending on their meaning.

Scans Show 'Brain Dictionary' Groups Words By Meaning

Brain maps constructed by MRI show that language meaning is distributed throughout the brain's outer layer. And it turns out that different people organize language in similar ways.

Kitty Wells, 'Queen Of Country,' Dead At Age 92

Wells paved the way for women in country by defying the wisdom of her time.

Let Them Eat Sandwiches: USDA Eases School Lunch Restrictions

Participation in the school lunch program suffered after USDA restricted the amount of grains and protein that could be served to kids at lunchtime. Now school food directors are applauding the decision to allow more of them back on lunch menus.

GM's New CEO Marks A Return To Tradition

Mary Barra has broken through the glass ceiling of the auto industry to become the first female CEO of General Motors. She'll take the helm of GM in January. But Barra is actually a return to tradition in other ways: GM will be led by an insider, and an engineer, for the first time in many years.

French gendarmes patrol outside the Printemps department store in Paris, a city that's still on edge and on a security alert after last week's deadly terrorist attack.

In Paris, Security Checks For Shoppers — And Children

On a famous shopping street in Paris, children climb up to gaze at Christmas displays in shop windows. But inside these venerable stores, security is a top concern.

The Pfizer flag flies in front of its world headquarters in New York. Pfizer and Dublin-based Allergan will merge, creating the world's biggest drug-maker by sales.

Drug Giant Pfizer To Merge With Allergan In Deal To Lower Corporate Taxes

The deal will create the world's largest pharmaceutical company by sales, bringing together the makers of Viagra and Botox.

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