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Cotton Mather's 'Kontiki,' The Album That Won't Go Gently

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Cotton Mather (from left): Dana Myzer, Josh Gravelin, Whit Williams and Robert Harrison.

By David Brown

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More than a decade ago, an album came out recorded mostly on cassette in a house, never released on a major label — and until last month it had been out of print for almost that long. When Noel Gallagher of Oasis heard it, he declared it "amazing," and The Guardian called it "the best album The Beatles never recorded."

11:37 am

Tue March 13, 2012

Santorum Gets A Lift From Anti-Abortion Group

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Supporters of Rick Santorum, organized by the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, spoke outside the Georgia State Capitol Building on March 5.

By Caitlin Dickerson

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has been getting help from anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List as he campaigns this primary season, so far receiving nearly $500,000 in ads and other support.

11:11 am

Tue March 13, 2012

F. Sherwood Rowland, Warned Of Aerosol's Danger

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F. Sherwood Rowland, pictured here in 1989, was one of three chemists who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry for work on discovering chemicals that deplete the Earth's ozone layer.

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Rowland receives the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1995. He shared the award with Mario Molina and Paul J. Crutzen.

By Richard Harris

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The man who warned us that aerosol spray-cans could destroy the earth's protective ozone layer has died.

F. Sherwood Rowland, better known as Sherry Rowland, was a Nobel-prize winning chemist at the University of California, Irvine. And he didn't just keep to the laboratory: He successfully advocated for a ban on ozone-destroying chemicals called CFCs.

10:50 am

Tue March 13, 2012

If You're Hiding It From Your Wife, That Payday Loan's 'Gotta Be Bad News'

By Mark Memmott

Much has been reported in recent years about payday loans and the huge fees and sky-high interest charges that borrowers can rack up if they use such services.

And though their demise has been predicted, they live on.

9:54 am

Tue March 13, 2012

Car Pool: Aerial Views Of How Mexico Moves

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An aerial view of car pools in Monterrey, Mexico

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A selection of images from Cartagena's series Suburbia Mexicana

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Cartagena also uses portraits in his series Suburbia Mexicana to give a more human lay of the land.

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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 8:57 am

"I've figured out that there are more of them when it's a payday," photographer Alejandro Cartagena writes to me from Monterrey, Mexico, where he is based.

More carpoolers, that is — the subject of his latest project, which started somewhat accidentally. Cartagena was commissioned by a group of researchers about usage of a Monterrey street. "I wanted to see the car in the context of the street and the urbanscape," he explains. "That took me to find higher points of view, where I found these workers."

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Tue March 13, 2012