Wednesday Index

By On May 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Index, KRCC News

In Colorado Springs, city employees receive a warning to stay out of politics while on the clock (Gazette). Analysis shows an unlatched door allowed an unarmed burglary suspect to run through a D-11 school (Gazette). KRDO takes a look at prostitution in the Pikes Peak region. The Air Force Academy dedicates a chapel that’s geared toward earth-based prayer (Gazette, KRDO).

In Pueblo, the Chieftain takes a look at the course of a proposal for a nuclear power plant. CSU-Pueblo’s interim president says he’ll stay until officials can find a permanent president (Chieftain). D-70 looks at the possibility of issuing bonds (Chieftain).

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NOAA
NOAA Predicts Above-Average Hurricane Season
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Forecasters predict as many as six major hurricanes in the Atlantic this year due in part to warmer-than-average ocean temperatures.
 

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This 9-Year-Old Girl Told McDonald’s CEO: Stop Tricking Kids
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Over the years, McDonald’s has gotten a lot of flack for marketing to kids. At a shareholders meeting Thursday morning, Hannah Robertson, age 9, took the fast-food giant’s CEO to task.
 

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Researchers Find Bird Flu Is Contagious Among Ferrets
May 23, 2013 | NPR · The virus’s ability to move between these mammals might not bode well for humans. So far, it appears that H7N9 doesn’t pass easily between people, but it could mutate over time and pose more of a threat.
 

Arts & Life

Sony Pictures Classics
To ‘Fill The Void,’ A Choice With A Personal Cost
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Rama Burshtein’s ravishing family story is a love poem to life in an insular community — the ultra-Orthodox Hasidim of Tel Aviv, where the director lives. Studiously nonpolitical, it’s a low-stakes story with the emotional punch of high drama. (Recommended)
 

NPR
‘Lunch Lady’ Author Helps Students Draw Their Own Heroes
May 23, 2013 | NPR · Can you imagine your own superhero? That’s the question author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka posed to kids on a recent afternoon at a school in Washington, D.C. Krosoczka also described how he overcame a difficult childhood to become the author of the beloved Lunch Lady series.
 

Universal Pictures
Breakin’ The Rules: 20 General Principles Suspended In ‘Fast And Furious 6′
May 23, 2013 | NPR · There are many principles of day-to-day life that don’t make their way into the Fast, Furious universe.
 

Music

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Duke Ellington: Highlights Of His Twilight
May 23, 2013 | WFIU · The great composer and bandleader was distraught over the 1967 death of Billy Strayhorn, his songwriting and arranging partner of 28 years. But Ellington took Strayhorn’s passing as an impetus, born of necessity, to increase his own productivity. Here are five examples.
 

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Boards Of Canada Share New Video, Song
May 23, 2013 | NPR · After weeks of anticipation and cryptic messages the Scottish electronic duo finally shares a new song, and an eerie video.
 

Courtesy of the artist
Boy On World Cafe
May 23, 2013 | WXPN · The Swiss-German duo’s sweet, honest and enchanting sound shines on its debut album, Mutual Friends.
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