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Postal Service Plans To End Saturday Mail Delivery

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Originally published on Wed February 6, 2013 9:51 am

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Wed February 6, 2013

Manti Te'o Deletes Twitter Account

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Manti Te'o won't be tricked again - at least not on Twitter. Te'o's the Notre Dame football player who says he met his girlfriend online. The woman wasn't real, and Te'o says he was the victim of a hoax. He's now deleted his Twitter account. The page had included a quote from author Alexander Dumas: "Life is a storm. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

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Wed February 6, 2013

In Dallas, Boy Scouts Debate Opening Membership To Gays

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Leadership of the Boy Scouts of America may take an important vote today. The organization's executive board is wrapping up a meeting in Dallas, and they're talking about whether to drop their policy banning gay leaders and gay scouts. Activists delivered petitions with more than 1.4 million signatures to the national headquarters this week calling for the Boy Scouts to open up the organization.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the issue has ignited a passionate debate about what the 100-year-old group should do.

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Wed February 6, 2013

Cities Must Strategize To Boost Service Workers' Pay

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Let's look at the economy in another way. The urban scholar Richard Florida has found a problem with the way our cities are evolving.

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He's famous for studying the creative class, his term for millions of entrepreneurs, writers, thinkers, engineers, the innovators who make an economy grow.

INSKEEP: Florida says cities become more prosperous when those innovators are concentrated there.

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Wed February 6, 2013

Feds Bust Huge Credit Fraud Ring

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We're also tracking a story that federal authorities call one of the biggest credit card fraud rings in U.S. history. Eighteen people are alleged to have created an elaborate web of fake identities and sham companies to steal hundreds of millions of dollars.

NPR's Dan Bobkoff has more.

2:05 am

Wed February 6, 2013

Using 3-D Printers To Make Gun Parts Raises Alarms

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This AR-15 rifle's lower receiver (in soft green color) was produced with a 3-D printer. The 3-D printing industry has criticized the use of the technology for gun part making.

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A 3-D desktop printer on display at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas demonstrates how designs are translated into plastic objects.

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This is a computer-generated design for a vital part, called a lower receiver, of the AR-15 rifle. The design can be used to make the part on a 3-D printer.

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Originally published on Wed February 6, 2013 1:48 pm

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You may have heard about 3-D printing, a technological phenomenon that uses a robotic arm to build objects one layer at a time. As people get imaginative and create items in a one-stop-shop fashion, one more creation has been added to the printing line: gun parts.

On the West Side of Manhattan, behind large glass windows, a dozen 3-D printers build plastic toys and jewelry. Hilary Brosnihan, a manager at 3DEA, an events company that sponsored a print pop-up store, says things are moving rapidly.

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Wed February 6, 2013

Is Online Gambling Legal If Bitcoins, Not Dollars, Are At Stake?

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With no government ties, Bitcoin is used to buy everything from blogging services to Brooklyn-made cupcakes. Theoretically, millions of dollars are being kept in the digital currency, and it's increasingly being used by specialized online gambling websites. But is Bitcoin gambling legal?

Purely in the interests of journalism, I decided to get my hands on some of the currency. When I did so, Bitcoin, which has been around for a few years now, was fetching around $17 on most exchange sites. It has since risen to more than $20.

1:58 am

Wed February 6, 2013

Puerto Rico's Battered Economy: The Greece Of The Caribbean?

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Edward Bonet, 23, lives in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, and works on the dive team at the Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa in the town of Guanica. He lives with his grandmother, while his mother and sister live in Central Florida.

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Edward Bonet, 23, lives in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, and works on the dive team at the Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa in the town of Guanica. He lives with his grandmother, Genoveva "Veva" Camacho.

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Bonet has worked at the resort for six months and enjoys his life in Puerto Rico. Although his mom and sister live in Central Florida, he has no desire to leave the island.

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Genoveva "Veva" Camacho, 74, raised her family in Puerto Rico, and still lives in the town of Cabo Rojo with her grandson, Edward. Her daughters, Arlene and Genoveva, as well as her granddaughter, Didra, all moved to Orlando in search of a better life. A poor economy and increased crime are contributing to an exodus from the island.

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Genoveva and Juan Bonet are seen on their wedding day. Her family has deep roots in Puerto Rico, and she says she doesn't want to leave, but thinks she may eventually have to join her daughter in central Florida.

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Mariluz Diaz Nieves sells orchids at an outdoor street market.

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Miguel Sanchez sells fruits and vegetables on the street in Rio Piedras.

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Most of the items sold at the market are imported, as Puerto Rico, like many Caribbean islands, has little industry of its own.

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A dress for sale at a street market in the Rio Piedras neighborhood.

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Rosario Rivera is an economist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She lives on the island with her husband, a lawyer, but they've considered moving to the mainland. She is seen here at a street market in the Rio Piedras neighborhood of San Juan.

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Bonet and Camacho say they prefer their life on the island to life on the mainland.

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Camacho and Juan Bonet are seen on their wedding day. Her family has deep roots in Puerto Rico. She says she doesn't want to leave, but may eventually have to join her daughter in Central Florida.

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Bonet and his sister, Didra, are shown here in Puerto Rico in this undated family photo.

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Genoveva "Veva" Camacho raised her family in Puerto Rico, and still lives in the town of Cabo Rojo with her grandson, Edward. Her daughters and granddaughter moved to Florida in search of a better life.

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Originally published on Wed February 6, 2013 9:51 am

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Puerto Rico's population is declining. Faced with a deteriorating economy, increased poverty and a swelling crime rate, many citizens are fleeing the island for the U.S. mainland. In a four-part series, Morning Edition explores this phenomenon, and how Puerto Rico's troubles are affecting its people and other Americans in unexpected ways.

Edward Bonet's mom no longer tries to convince him to join her in Florida. Unlike his family, the 23-year-old from Puerto Rico refuses to leave the island and its shattered economy.

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Wed February 6, 2013

Why You Love That Ikea Table, Even If It's Crooked

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Building your own stuff boosts your feelings of pride and competence, and also signals to others that you are competent.

By Shankar Vedantam

Originally published on Wed February 6, 2013 9:51 am

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Have you ever spent a couple of hours working on a craft project — or a presentation for work — and then fallen in love with what you've accomplished? Do the colors you've picked for your PowerPoint background pop so beautifully that you just have to sit back and admire your own genius?

If so, get in line: You're the latest person to fall victim to the Ikea Effect.

1:53 am

Wed February 6, 2013

Hollywood Hot Shots, Scientology And A Story Worth The Risk In 'Going Clear'

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Lawrence Wright is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Originally published on Wed February 6, 2013 11:26 am

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In the 1970s, a young man named Paul Haggis was walking down a street in Ontario, Canada. He encountered a man peddling a book.

"And he handed the book to Paul, and he said, 'You've got a mind — this is the owner's manual,' " journalist Lawrence Wright tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "And inside, there was a stamp saying 'Church of Scientology,' and Paul was intrigued, and he said, 'Take me there.' " Haggis soon became a member of the Church of Scientology — and he's a central character in Wright's new book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief.

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