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The proportion of 12- to 19-year-olds who report having diabetes or “prediabetes” increased from 9 percent in 1999 to 23 percent in 2008, according to a paper published in the journal Pediatrics. “This report really sounds the alarm,” says one researcher.

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Go to Source – A Dire Sign Of The Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring, Study Finds
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Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city’s largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a NATO summit.

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Go to Source – Protesters, Police Clash At NATO Summit In Chicago
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Not a lot is known about Kawasaki disease. It affects children under 4 and is more common in Asia, particularly Japan, but more than 4,000 American children contract it every year. One of its secrets may now be revealed, but it took climate researchers to help spot it.

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Go to Source – A Windborne Clue To A Mysterious Childhood Disease
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When a bookmobile broke down last winter in rural Vermont, patrons, especially preschoolers, really missed it. Then a donor, who heard an NPR story about the rolling library’s demise, came up with over $100,000 for a replacement. The town can’t believe its good fortune. Vermont Public Radio’s Charlotte Albright reports.

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Go to Source – Donor Resurrects Endangered Bookmobile
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If life is a ballgame, then NPR’s Mike Pesca is the guy in the stands, carrying his own stat-sheet and searching out empirical evidence. Host Rachel Martin speaks with Pesca about what the numbers have to say about injuries.

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Go to Source – Sports Injuries: A Look At The Data
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Out West Sunday, it will start getting dark earlier than normal, but just for a little while. A major solar eclipse, although not quite total, will spread across the skies in a 200-mile swath from Oregon into west Texas. Longtime Washington, D.C., meteorologist Bob Ryan has traveled the world chasing eclipses with his wife. He joins host Rachel Martin.

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Go to Source – Eclipse-Chaser Shares Thrill Of The Hunt
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Host Rachel Martin takes a moment to remember William Henderson Foote, a black federal agent in Mississippi in the late 1800s. He was honored this week by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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Go to Source – A Lawman Killed By Hate; Now, ATF Remembers
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Last fall, President Abe Lincoln lost his sword. The copper blade went missing from atop Lincoln’s burial site in Illinois. Authorities eventually recovered it, but in two pieces. Now, as Rachel Otwell reports, the artifact has been replaced.

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Go to Source – Lost, Found And Replaced: Lincoln’s Sword
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The White House is urging war-weary NATO leaders to dig deeper into their pockets to share the commitment to get Afghanistan’s forces to stand up on their own so U.S. and NATO forces can pull out in 2014. Host Rachel Martin speaks with Ben Rhodes, White House spokesperson on national security issues.

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Go to Source – White House Balances Money, Security In Afghanistan
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U.S. diplomats can breathe a little easier knowing Chen Guangcheng is in the U.S. and that weeks of difficult negotiations and high drama are behind them. Chen arrived Saturday with his wife and two children in New York, where has a fellowship to study.

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Go to Source – After Chinese Activist’s Arrival, Rest And Relief
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