An environmental group accuses the BLM of neglecting science in favor of politics when it conducted a series of ecological studies covering millions of acres in the West…The Colorado Department of Revenue says it has approved 26 of 500 applications to run marijuana dispensaries or marijuana centers…and, while we’re already well into this year’s flu season, Pueblo health officials say there’s still an abundance of vaccinations available.

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · Lois Lerner, who’s at the center of the political firestorm over her agency’s singling out of some conservative groups for extra scrutiny, then invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions from Congress.
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, they didn’t know which strain was the culprit. But they do now, thanks to the genes in some 19th century potato samples.
 

May 22, 2013 | NPR · A friend of the man killed Wednesday in Orlando says the FBI was questioning the man about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men suspected of planting the bombs in Boston.
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · Also: shameless book blurbs; new plays from Ayad Ahktar; and a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone draws a record price at auction.
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest, Americanah, follows the trials and tribulations of Ifemelu, a middle-class Nigerian immigrant to America. Reviewer Jennifer Reese calls Americanah a “rich and gloriously detailed tapestry … hung on the sturdy scaffolding of a sweet love story.”
 

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May 22, 2013 | NPR · When a few humble elements are combined in perfect balance, butterscotch is born. And food writer Deena Prichep says she turns this childhood favorite into a dinner-party star with counterpoints like flaky salt or crunchy nuts.
 

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May 22, 2013 | KCRW · Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew visit the Morning Becomes Eclectic studios to perform songs from their most recent album, Fade. Watch the venerable indie-rock trio play a KCRW favorite, “Two Trains.”
 

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May 22, 2013 | Q2 · Watch an intimate concert inspired by Muhly’s exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined by close friends including singers Sam Amidon, Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
 

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May 22, 2013 | Q2 · The young composer has worked with David Byrne, Caetano Veloso and Amanda Palmer. But before all that, Bischoff spent his childhood living on a tiny sailboat. Take a video tour of his old bedroom — and the place where he currently makes his beguiling blend of rock, pop and classical music.
 

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