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U.S.
4:53 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

Immigration Reform Before Border Control, Experts Say

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A hilltop view of the 18-foot fence along the U.S.-Mexico border west of Nogales, Ariz.
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Originally published on Wed December 26, 2012 7:10 pm

Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. Border Patrol has quintupled in size — growing from about 4,000 to more than 20,000 agents.

The government has constructed some 700 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers. It has placed thousands of ground sensors, lights, radar towers and cameras along the border. And Customs and Border Protection is now flying drones and helicopters to locate smuggles and rescue stranded immigrants.

So here's the question: Is the Southwest border secure?

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Space
4:03 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

In Calif. Gold Country, A Rush That's Out Of This World

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A section of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, dubbed "Darth Vader," is studied at a lab at the University of California, Davis. The meteorite is made of carbonaceous chondrite, which contains materials that formed the planets of the solar system.
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Robert Ward found a piece of the meteorite at a park in Lotus, Calif., on April 25. The 100,000-pound meteorite was blown apart into small pieces as it met the Earth's atmosphere.
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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 9:18 pm

On the crisp, clear morning of April 22, a 50-ton asteroid slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and shattered into countless pieces. Remarkably, they rained down onto Sutter's Mill, Calif., the exact spot where gold was discovered back in 1848, triggering the gold rush. And so follows a story of serendipity and scientific discovery.

"I was out on my hillside burning some branches and so forth, and I heard this sonic boom," says Gold Country resident Ed Allen. "It wasn't just one boom. It was a series of booms, literally right over my head."

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Latin America
4:02 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

'Lost Jews' Of Colombia Say They've Found Their Roots

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Baruj Cano, 4, watches as his father and other men from Bello's Jewish community read from the Torah.
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Many members of the Jewish community in Bello, Colombia, were raised as Christians. They believe their ancestors were Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition, and so they are now Orthodox Jews. Here, a boy reaches out to the 120-year-old Torah that was written in Amsterdam and acquired by the community five years ago.
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A man worships at the synagogue in Bello using a prayer book, the Siddur Birkat Shelomo, in which Spanish, Hebrew and phonetic versions are offered.
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The congregation prays at the synagogue in Bello.
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A metallic yad, or hand in Hebrew, is used while worshippers read from the Torah in Bello's synagogue.
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Worshippers leave the synagogue after morning prayers.
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Tombstones, many of European Jewish immigrants, at the secluded Jewish cemetery in the north of Medellin.
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Yehudit Zapata recites prayers at the synagogue in Bello.
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The congregation gathers around the Torah.
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A boy collects books after prayers.
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A man reads from a prayer book while a mother cares for her daughter during prayers at Bello's synagogue.
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A man worships at the synagogue in Bello using a prayer book, the Siddur Birkat Shelomo, in which Spanish, Hebrew and phonetic versions are offered.
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Galit Zapata, a member of the Jewish community in Bello, prepares bread in the family's kosher bakery.
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Originally published on Sun December 23, 2012 11:38 am

They are called "crypto-Jews" or "lost Jews," and in recent years they have emerged in remote places as scattered as India, Brazil, the American Southwest and here in Colombia.

They were raised as Christians but believe they have discovered hidden Jewish roots, prompting many to return to Judaism. Many say their ancestors were Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain more than 500 years ago, as the Spanish crown embarked on a systematic persecution of Jews.

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NPR Story
3:58 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

Letters: Southern Baptist Convention Leader On Guns

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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 9:18 pm

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Now, your letters and we heard from many of you about my conversation yesterday with Dr. Richard Land. He's director of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. And the moment that seemed to get most of you writing was Reverend Land's theological justification for gun ownership and the use of lethal force.

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The Salt
3:02 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

Big Food And The Big, Silent Salt Experiment

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Food companies have begun quietly reducing salt in regular foods because low-salt items like these don't sell as well.
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Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 9:18 pm

Have you noticed, perhaps, that some of your store-bought salad dressings or spaghetti sauces taste a little less salty lately?

Probably not. The companies that make those products are doing their best to keep you from noticing. Yet many of them are, in fact, carrying out a giant salt-reduction experiment, either because they want to improve their customers' health or because they're worried that if they don't, the government might impose regulations that would compel more onerous salt reductions.

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