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Maine College Students Take On A Bear Of A Study

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Originally published on Fri June 14, 2013 6:49 am

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In Maine, the state's effort to keep tabs on its black bear population is getting some help from a group of college kids. The program has undergraduate students capturing bears, running tests on them, and attaching tracking devices before releasing them back into the wild.

Maine Public Radio's Jay Field went along on a recent expedition into the woods.

4:14 am

Fri June 14, 2013

Can Captain Sunshine Save The Israeli Electric Car Dream?

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American-Israeli solar entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz, aka Captain Sunshine, speaks during a rally of electric car owners in Israel.

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Better Place, a failed Israeli electric car company, built a network of stations like this one where customers could drive up and swap batteries quickly instead of waiting hours to recharge. It went bankrupt after spending nearly $850 million and selling only around 1,000 cars.

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Originally published on Sun June 16, 2013 8:19 am

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Captain Sunshine wears a yellow yarmulke, yellow T-shirt and a bright-yellow cape held around his shoulders with a silky red ribbon. At a recent rally of about 200 electric-car owners in Israel, he called out questions to the crowd.

"We're saying to the government and to the army," he shouted through a squawky mic, "20 percent of your fleets should be electric cars. Do you agree?"

The crowd cheered yes.

3:20 am

Fri June 14, 2013

Friction Among Afghans A Threat To Post-U.S. Mission

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A soldier from the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, Manchus, looks toward the tree line through his rifle scope while on a foot patrol to visit Afghan Local Police in the Panjwai District of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. Panjwai is one of the most dangerous districts in Afghanistan.

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A soldier is careful to follow the line that has been checked for roadside bombs while on a foot patrol in Panjwai. IEDs are a major problem in the area, particularly in areas where Americans have handed responsibility over to Afghan security forces.

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Soldiers help one another off the mud brick wall of a compound while visiting an Afghan Local Police outpost in Panjwai. As American troops draw down in Afghanistan, they are relying more and more on the Afghans to take over security duties.

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Villagers discuss their grievances with members of the Afghan Local Police and the U.S. military. American soldiers are preparing to hand security responsibilities for the district over to the Afghan army and police. Panjwai is very conservative, and the Taliban use it as a place to organize fighters for attacks against international forces.

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A member of the Afghan Local Police fears he will be beheaded by the Taliban when the Americans leave the area.

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The Americans are turning over what one general calls "festering sores," including the birthplace of the Taliban, Panjwai.

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A villager visits an Afghan local police outpost in Panjwai. The area is home to pomegranate, grape and wheat farmers, and has traditionally been sympathetic to the Taliban insurgency.

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The horn of Panjwai is still littered with homemade bombs.

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One of two men detained by Afghan National Army soldiers and accused of being bomb-makers. He maintains he is a religious student and not a terrorist.

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An Afghan National Army soldier loads evidence into a plastic bag. The materials, including what appeared to be triggers and IED plans, were found in the vests of two men arrested as Taliban bomb-makers.

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A man detained by the Afghan National Army as an accused Taliban bomb-maker stands by as Afghan and American soldiers look through his belongings at Forward Operating Base Zangabad in Panjwai.

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When American forces leave the Panjwai area in November, Afghan security forces will have to find a way to work together across the spectrum of local and national forces.

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When American forces leave the Panjwai area in November, Afghan security forces will have to find a way to work together across the spectrum of local and national forces. If they don't, the Taliban will continue to find a safe haven and mount attacks on Kandahar.

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Lt. Col. Gary King is the top U.S. trainer working with Afghan National Army in the Panjwai district of Kandahar. He says he's hopeful that if the Afghan leadership can allocate the right resources to the area, a basic stability can be maintained.

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Lt. Col. Gary King is the top U.S. trainer working with the Afghan National Army in the Panjwai district of Kandahar. He says he's hopeful that if the Afghan leadership can allocate the right resources to the area, a basic stability can be maintained.

By Tom Bowman

Originally published on Fri June 14, 2013 11:21 am

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The Afghan farmer in Panjwai District, outside the southern city of Kandahar, is finally fed up with the Taliban.

His name is Abdullah Razik. He's slight, with a trim beard and a dark green shirt that falls below his knees.

The Taliban plant roadside bombs in his fields, he says, and shoot near his house. The area is one of the most dangerous in Afghanistan — the birthplace of the Taliban.

Not long ago, something worse happened, Razik says.

"My friend ... lost his hand," he says. "The Taliban were putting IEDs in my village" four months ago.

3:19 am

Fri June 14, 2013

Why More People Are Renting Tires

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Originally published on Fri June 14, 2013 11:34 am

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"Oh, I checked every place in town, and they were outrageous," says Shannon Kelly. "It would be anywhere from $4[00] to $500, and I just don't have that right now."

Kelly had just walked into Rent N Roll, a rent-to-own tire store in Ocala, Fla. She was looking to rent a set of tires for her truck. Tire rental stores like this one have been around for a while, but until recently, most of their customers rented fancy rims. These days, it's becoming more common for the stores to rent simple tires to people who don't have the cash to buy tires outright.

7:09 am

Thu June 13, 2013

U.S. Navy To Make Its Communications Less 'Rude'

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The Navy has been issuing orders and messages in capital letters since the 1850s when teletype machines didn't have lower case. But to young sailors, raised on texting, "all CAPS" signifies shouting.

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