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The Two-Way
11:51 am
Fri March 1, 2013

Kim Dotcom Loses Court Battle In Megaupload Extradition Case

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Kim Dotcom, founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, says he will take his fight against extradition to the United States to New Zealand's highest court, after an appeals court ruled in the U.S. government's favor Friday.

At issue is the amount of evidence Dotcom's defense team is entitled to see at the extradition hearing. An appeals court overruled a lower court's decision that the U.S. government had to provide more than a summary of its case against the Internet entrepreneur.

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The Two-Way
11:16 am
Fri March 1, 2013

SpaceX Reports Problem With Launch Of Dragon Capsule

Credit John Raoux / Associated Press
The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday.
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Originally published on Fri March 1, 2013 8:24 pm

Update at 8:10 p.m. ET: Problem Fixed, Arrival Delayed

SpaceX says the problem with its unmanned craft carrying supplies for the International Space Station has been fixed.

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The Two-Way
11:13 am
Fri March 1, 2013

China's Broadcast Of Drug Lord's Final Hours Sparks Controversy

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Originally published on Sat March 2, 2013 2:54 pm

In a country where executions are so commonplace as to barely rate a mention on the evening news, the death by lethal injection of a drug lord and three accomplices in China on Friday got its own two-hour special on state television.

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The Picture Show
10:44 am
Fri March 1, 2013

The Photographer Who Made Architects Famous

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Credit Bill Maris / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Portrait of Ezra Stoller with view camera, circa 1965.
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Brenner House, Harry Weese, Champaign, Ill., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Burnap Post House, Esherick House, Louis Kahn, Philadelphia, Pa., 1966
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Catalano House, Eduardo Catalano, Raleigh, N.C., 1955
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
CBS Columbia Records, 1953
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
CBS Columbia, Long Island City, N.Y., 1954
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Design Research, Benjamin Thompson, Cambridge, Mass., 1970
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Exxon Building on Sixth Avenue, Harrison and Abramovitz, New York, N.Y., 1974
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Heinz Factory, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1958
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington, D.C., 1974
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
IBM 702 Machine, 1955
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
John Hancock Chicago construction, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, Ill., 1967
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
John Hancock Chicago construction, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, Ill., 1970
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Johnson Wax Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright, Racine, Wis., 1950
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Lever House, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, N.Y., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Manufacturer's Trust Company, Fifth Avenue, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, N.Y., 1954
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Marin County Civic Center, Frank Lloyd Wright, San Rafael, Calif., 1963
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
McMath Solar Telescope, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Kitt Peak, Ariz., 1962
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami, Fla., 1949
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Olivetti Underwood Factory, Louis Kahn, Harrisburg, Pa., 1969
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Philip Morris Research Center Tower, Ulrich Franzen, Richmond, Va., 1972
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Salk Institute of Biological Research, Louis Kahn, La Jolla, Calif., 1977
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Life Savers Factory, Port Chester, N.Y., 1956. Although he is most well-known for his photographs of architecture, Stoller was also often assigned to photograph stories about innovations in technology and man's relationship with machinery.
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Originally published on Mon March 4, 2013 9:31 am

Ezra Stoller probably wouldn't care about this question, but let's indulge it anyways: What makes a "beautiful" photograph?

To a degree, a lot depends on the subject, right? Would Ansel Adams have been half as famous if those landscapes hadn't already done most of the work?

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The Two-Way
10:08 am
Fri March 1, 2013

As Cardinals Vet Possible Popes, Names May Emerge

Credit Osservatore Romano / Reuters /Landov
Roman Catholic cardinals at the Vatican on Thursday, as Pope Benedict XVI bid them goodbye. Now they must turn to choosing his successor.
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  • On 'Morning Edition': Cokie Roberts reports from Rome

Will there be any clues in coming days and weeks about which cardinal will replace the now-departed Pope Benedict XVI?

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