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  • An Indiana medical employer internally announced that it will free all current and future doctors from non-compete agreements. This step goes well beyond the new partial non-compete ban in state law, which hasn't taken effect yet.
  • A natural compound kills germs that have become resistant to antibiotics, researchers say. If it works in humans, it could help combat diseases like tuberculosis.
  • The murder trial is underway for Theodore Wafer, the Detroit homeowner who shot Renisha McBride, an unarmed black teen, on his porch. Wafer claims self-defense; prosecutors say there was no threat.
  • At George's Family Restaurant, just outside of Pittsburgh in Aliquippa, Pa., voters who will help decide the April 22 primary are abuzz over Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race Tuesday in Philadelphia.
  • More than a dozen wildfires continue to rage across Southern California. San Diego County is still getting hit the hardest. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been forced to flee the flames, and at least 700 homes have been destroyed.
  • Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.
  • Though Colorado is often held up as the model of a healthy lifestyle, the state isn't immune to the obesity crisis. One in four children is either overweight or obese. "This is a major problem," says one state health official. "We are far from setting the model of where we want to be."
  • The loss of students from India and China, who typically enroll in the university's master's programs like engineering and information technology, is largely contributing to the decline.
  • Jordan and Jennifer Olsen were teenagers in 1997 when they met working at a Subway in Kaysville, Utah. Nearly 20 years later, the couple now married, decided to buy the shop from the retiring owners.
  • The fifth and final in our series of panel discussions on race elations in the United States. This session, moderated by host Liane Hansen, ncludes discussion with eight students who attend Washington, D.C.-area niversities. Today's participants are Kevin Jenkins, University of the District f Columbia; Megan Varnet, George Washington University; Jennifer Johnson, niversity of Maryland; Caleb Pitters, Brian Rath and Alexandra Camp of eorgetown University; and Tim Furlong and Terri Tolliver of The American niversity. We'll hear excerpts from previous discussions from bell hooks, a ultural critic and Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League.
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