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All Tech Considered
4:13 pm
Thu January 24, 2013

Swinging From 140 Characters To Six-Second Videos, Twitter Launches Vine

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Twitter announced its partnership with Vine, a video-sharing app that posts six-second videos onto a tweet, on Thursday, Jan. 24.
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Twitter's Vine app only lets you shoot from the back camera lens.
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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 11:02 am

If you thought 140 characters of text was too short, try grabbing your Twitter followers' attention with six-second videos. Six seconds.

Twitter on Thursday launched the video app Vine, which allows users to shoot brief videos and directly tweet them. The social media company acquired the video-sharing startup last fall, according to All Things D.

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The Salt
4:06 pm
Thu January 24, 2013

Maxing Out The Mini Season For Maine Shrimp

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Trawlers in the Gulf of Maine are allowed to catch Maine shrimp during a limited season that started this week.
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Maine shrimp are small and more red than pink. Mainers say the shrimp have a sweeter, more delicate flavor than shrimp from the American south or Asia.
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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 7:29 pm

To Mainers, cold-water shrimp pulled from the Gulf of Maine in midwinter by a shrinking fleet of fisherman are many things: fresh, sweet, delicious, affordable, precious.

"The absolute best thing about them is that they are almost exclusively ours," boasts Portland-based architect and Maine shrimp lover Ric Quesada. He revels in the fact that Maine shrimp don't travel well out of state. "You don't run errands with these in your car. They want to go right home and be eaten," he says.

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Shots - Health News
3:32 pm
Thu January 24, 2013

Costa Rican Tribe's Traditional Medicines Get A Modern Media Makeover

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According to the Terraba tribe, anise leaves are rich in iron and help with circulation.
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Often the plants are used in teas, mixed into ointments or made into soaps.A tea of zecate de limon, or lemon grass, is used for colds.
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According to the Terraba, anise leaves help with circulation problems.
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The community clean and stitch up wounds with cotton fibers.
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A tea made with tilo plant is thought to help relax the nervous system.
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Some of the medicinal plants are quite familiar, but the Terraba use them in unique ways. Cacao butter serves as a natural sunscreen and anti-aging face cream.
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The Terraba people boil the bark of the guanabana to treat leukemia.
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To help the Terraba tribe protect their land and culture, journalism students built an interactive website exploring the indigenous people's history, religion and traditional medicine.
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Originally published on Sun January 27, 2013 4:09 pm

When the Terraba tribe in Costa Rica rallied to oppose a hydroelectric dam they feared would destroy their land and their centuries-old culture, the indigenous community took a modern approach.

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Shots - Health News
3:30 pm
Thu January 24, 2013

Fighting Misconceptions About Sickle Cell Disease In The ER

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Nurse Corean McClinton, left, talks about pain management with Sherry Webb at the Sickle Cell Disease Center in the Truman Medical Center, in Kansas City, Mo., in 2007.
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Originally published on Fri January 25, 2013 1:47 pm

When sickle cell patients arrive at emergency rooms, they often have difficulty getting proper treatment. Paula Tanabe, an associate professor at the Duke University School of Nursing, is working to change that.

Sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder most common among people of African descent, affects 100,000 Americans. It causes normally disk-shaped red blood cells to take the form of pointed crescents or sickles.

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It's All Politics
3:05 pm
Thu January 24, 2013

Will Big Government Make A Comeback?

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For his second inaugural address, President Obama defended government as central to harnessing the energy of American individuals.
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Originally published on Thu January 24, 2013 6:16 pm

For years, Democratic politicians have been shy about talking up the virtues of government. It was all the way back in 1996 that President Bill Clinton declared "the era of big government is over."

That may have changed with President Obama's second inaugural address. Obama declared that only through government and "collective action" can the nation achieve its full promise.

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