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Middle East
3:03 am
Fri March 29, 2013

Syrian Financial Capital's Loss Is Turkey's Gain

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Syrian refugees are pictured at Kilis refugee camp in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Nov. 1. An estimated 150,000 Syrians are reported to be living in the Turkish border town.
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Syrians flocked to the recent opening of a new restaurant in Gaziantep serving a creamy garlic sauce known as creme toum. It's a sign that some Syrians are beginning to think about Gaziantep as more than just a temporary home.
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Originally published on Fri March 29, 2013 10:20 pm

There is a brain drain in Syria, an exodus of the skilled and the educated as the Syrian revolt grinds into a third year.

The health care system is one casualty, as hospitals and clinics are shelled and doctors flee the country.

The business community is another — particularly in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and once the country's industrial and financial hub.

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Latin America
3:02 am
Fri March 29, 2013

In Honduras, Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Music And Theater

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Women meet during a support group for those who have HIV and their friends and family on Jan. 17 in Triunfo de la Cruz. These kinds of support groups are an important part of making people feel comfortable with their diagnosis and seeking treatment.
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Daily life on the streets of a Garifuna community Jan. 25 in Corozal, Honduras. Various factors have contributed to a high HIV rate among the Garifuna, including poverty and migration.
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Santos Anael Martinez cooks food in his home Jan. 13 in Sambo Creek. Santos,a fisherman, is HIV-positive; his wife is a community health worker who visits people living with HIV.
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A view of a cemetery in Sambo Creek. Before medicines were made widely available in the early 2000s, scores of people in the Garifuna community died from AIDS. According to local NGOs, the death rate has dropped dramatically.
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Women meet during a support group for those who have HIV and their friends and family on Jan. 17 in Triunfo de la Cruz. These kinds of support groups are an important part of making people feel comfortable with their diagnosis and seeking treatment.
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Anatolia Ramirez waits outside the home of one of the HIV-positive women she visits in Sambo Creek. Ramirez is a community health worker who visits people with HIV in order to check up on them, and to offer assistance and support.
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Francisca Guity, who is HIV-postive, sits with her child in her home Jan. 20 in Sambo Creek.
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Nolvia Cruz waits to be seen at an HIV/AIDS health clinic on Jan. 25 in La Ceiba. Nolvia is open about her diagnosis, but many people are afraid to go to the clinic for fear that someone they know will see them and gossip about their HIV status.
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A community theater group performs at a festival Jan. 25 in Corozal. The theater group uses traditional Garifuna music and culture in its productions to help teach about HIV prevention and stigma.
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Carmen Suyapa (right) receives a visit from Anatolia Ramirez on Jan. 21 in La Ceiba, Honduras. Carmen felt so rejected by her family after she was diagnosed with HIV that she briefly considered committing suicide.
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Originally published on Fri March 29, 2013 11:14 am

In the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.

On a sandy lot next to the town's main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose: to prevent HIV.

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The Two-Way
7:29 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

Prosecutors Say Alleged Colorado Theater Shooter's Plea Offer Was 'Publicity Ploy'

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Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:31 pm

Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting case, say the plea offer from the alleged gunman James Holmes was a publicity ploy, The Denver Post is reporting.

The paper adds:

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The Two-Way
6:52 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

Supreme Court Notes: Bugs, Pumps And Stolen Credit Card Numbers

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Same-sex marriage supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
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NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg sends us some odds and ends from a very momentous week in the Supreme Court.

Hear all that sneezing, wheezing, coughing, and nose blowing during this week's same-sex oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court?

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The Two-Way
6:29 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

In Light Of High Court Arguments, What Does Gay Marriage Tells Us About Polygamy?

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Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Christine Brown and Janelle Brown from "Sister Wives" arrive at the grand opening of Mike Tyson's one-man show at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Originally published on Mon April 8, 2013 1:18 pm

One of the more interesting exchanges to emerge from the Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage this week, wasn't about the sexes, instead it was when Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked a question about polygamy.

Sotomayor asked Ted Olson, the lawyer asking the court to repeal California's ban on gay marriage, that if he was right and "marriage is a fundamental right" could any state restrictions ever exist. In other words, does declaring gay marriage a civil right, pave the way to legalization of, say, polygamy?

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