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1:19 pm
Thu February 9, 2012

Steve Jobs' FBI File Reveals People Who Knew Him Had A Mixed Opinion Of Him

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Steve Jobs.

The FBI has released the files it kept on Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple. The 191-pages are part of a background search the FBI undertook in order to clear him for an appointment made to the President's Export Council by George W. Bush in 1991.

For the background check, the FBI conducted 30 interviews with friends, family, neighbors and former colleagues. What emerged was a portrait of a man admired for his brilliance but whose personal life and character are often questioned. It's not unlike the picture painted in Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography "Steve Jobs."

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The Two-Way
1:15 pm
Thu February 9, 2012

Escaped 'Rhino' Successfully Captured In Tokyo

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Netting the escapee.

Originally published on Thu February 9, 2012 1:40 pm

In 2010, it was a guy dressed up in a tiger suit that wouldn't have scared many toddlers. One year keepers successfully captured a "zebra."

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The Two-Way
12:05 pm
Thu February 9, 2012

Call It 'Gulf Of America,' Not Gulf Of Mexico, Mississippi Lawmaker Says

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Sept. 2005: Hurricane Rita enters the Gulf of Mexico — or Gulf of America, as Mississippi House Rep. Stephen Holland would say.

A Democratic member of Mississippi's state House has introduced legislation that would "for all official purposes within the State of Mississippi," change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

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The Two-Way
12:02 pm
Thu February 9, 2012

Fun, Fun, Fun 'Til Council Takes The Frisbee Away

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A surfer watches the waves just before sunset at Will Rogers State Beach in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.

Throwing a frisbee or a football on a Los Angeles County beach in the summer could cost you $1,000.

As NPR member station KPCC reports, the L.A. Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a revision of a 37-page ordinance that outlines acceptable behavior on county beaches.

KPCC reports:

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Shots - Health Blog
11:58 am
Thu February 9, 2012

Feds Find Wide Variation In Serious Infections Linked To Catheters

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Inattention to catheters used often in ICUs can lead to serious infections.

Across the country, 1 in 6 hospitals has high rates of one of the most serious kinds of preventable infections — those caused by catheters inserted into large veins, according to new data published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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