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3:44 am
Mon December 10, 2012

How Obama's 2nd Inauguration Will Differ From 2009

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Construction is under way on the viewing stand in front of the U.S. Capitol for President Obama's Inauguration Day ceremonies on Jan. 21.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:37 am

Details are starting to come out about President Obama's second inauguration next month. The co-chairmen include some leaders of the Democratic Party and the business world as well as actress Eva Longoria. A record crowd came to the nation's capital in 2009 to witness the country's first black president take the oath of office, but this event is expected to be less flashy.

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Superstorm Sandy: Before, During And Beyond
3:35 am
Mon December 10, 2012

Everyone Chip In, Please: Crowdfunding Sandy

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Jenny Adams in the Wayland Bar in Alphabet City, where she stored piles of relief supplies to distribute. Adams raised $10,000 through a crowdfunding website to help her neighbors affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:40 pm

Big-hearted Americans always rush to give money after a disaster. Just how much and how fast is often determined by technology. After the earthquake in Haiti, texting small donations, for example, became a new standard practice.

This time around, Hurricane Sandy has shown crowdfunding websites are a simple tool for quick-response giving. Anyone can go on these sites and ask for money to rebuild or to help their neighbors rebuild. Friends, family and strangers chip in.

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Shots - Health News
3:23 am
Mon December 10, 2012

As Childhood Strokes Increase, Surgeons Aim To Reduce Risks

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Maribel Ramos, 13, has both sickle cell disease and an abnormality of blood vessels called moyamoya. Both put her at risk of stroke, and, together, they add up to a 95 percent chance of a major stroke.
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Brain surgeons Ed Smith (left) and Sarah Jernigan operate on Maribel Ramos' brain. Monitor at upper left shows a portion of Maribel's brain, crossed by the healthy blood vessel they'll use to bring a new supply of blood to her oxygen-starved brain.
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Boston brain surgeon Ed Smith points to a tangle of delicate gray shadows on his computer screen. It's an X-ray of the blood vessels on the left side of 13-year-old Maribel Ramos' brain.

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Media
3:22 am
Mon December 10, 2012

'Orange County Register' Presses Hum With Optimism

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Ken Brusic, senior vice president for content, works in his office overlooking the 5 Freeway. In the past few weeks, Brusic has hired some two-dozen newsroom positions.
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Copies of The Orange County Register slide through the presses. The Register is the country's 20th most-read daily, with a circulation of about 285,000.
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Circulation numbers are up, which is good news for a paper that used to see double-digit declines.
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A worker inspects a copy of a paper fresh off the presses at The Orange County Register's facility in Santa Ana.
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The Register's parent company, Freedom Communications, filed for bankruptcy three years ago with $770 million in debt.
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Jerry Ascencio, a pressman at The Orange County Register, works in the basement of the presses.
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Bosses at the Register are determined to show that expanding — rather than shrinking — the newspaper is a good idea.
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Workers in the pressroom at The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif., where new owners are trying something unique in the industry: expanding the newsroom and putting the emphasis on print, not digital.
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Bradley McComb, a production and maintenance mechanic, inspects a machine that makes metal plates for the presses.
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Orange County Register publisher Aaron Kushner (left) and company president Eric Spitz. This summer, Kushner's Boston-based investment firm, 2100 Trust, bought Freedom Communications and the Register.
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Recent hires include critics to review food, TV and cars, a society columnist, investigative reporters and sportswriters. The paper is still looking for a movie critic, a magazine writer and more reporters.
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Copies of The Orange County Register slide through the presses. The Register is the country's 20th most-read daily, with a circulation of about 285,000.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 3:01 pm

The Orange Country Register in suburban Los Angeles is expanding its newsroom. Not only that — the owners are emphasizing print, not digital.

In the past few weeks, longtime Register editor Ken Brusic has hired some two-dozen positions: critics to review food, TV and cars, a society columnist and investigative reporters. He's still looking for a movie critic, a magazine writer and many more reporters.

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Asia
3:20 am
Mon December 10, 2012

A Tumultuous Year, Seen Through North Korean Eyes

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North Korean soldiers march during a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on April 15. It was supposed to be the year North Korea would become a "strong and prosperous" nation. That hasn't exactly been the case.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center), accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang on July 25 in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. For North Koreans, it was stunning to see the first lady at the leader's side — and holding his arm.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:39 pm

North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range rocket as it rounds off a tumultuous year marked by the sudden death of leader Kim Jong Il last December, the ascension of his 20-something son, and the humiliating failure of a rocket launch in April.

NPR recently interviewed five North Koreans in a northern Chinese city, gaining a rare glimpse of that eventful year through North Korean eyes. They were all visiting China legally, having left North Korea within the past few months.

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