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Wood Energy Not 'Green' Enough, Says Mass.

By Elizabeth Shogren

Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 4:02 pm

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When it comes to renewable energy, wind and solar get a lot of attention. But wood actually creates more power in the U.S., and Massachusetts state officials are scaling back their efforts to encourage wood power. It may be a renewable resource, they say, but that doesn't mean it's good for the environment.

NPR's Elizabeth Shogren has that story.

2:12 pm

Mon August 20, 2012

Augusta National to Add First Two Female Members

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Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 4:02 pm

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For the first time in its 80-year history, the Augusta National Gold Club has admitted women to become members. The home of the Masters says former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be one of two women admitted.

Presidential Race

1:38 pm

Mon August 20, 2012

Ann Romney Adds Fire, Faith To Husband's Campaign

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, greet supporters during an Illinois primary victory party in March.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, visit the Spirit of Dubuque in Iowa, in June.

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, greet guests after his official portrait is unveiled in 2009 during a ceremony on the Grand Staircase at the Statehouse in Boston.

By Tovia Smith

Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 6:52 pm

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If you want to see how much Mitt and Ann Romney consider themselves a team, check out his official portrait at the Massachusetts Statehouse. He's the first governor to request that an image of his wife be included in the painting — he's posed beside a framed picture of her.

By all accounts, the Romneys consult each other on everything. So after a bruising campaign in 2008 that left Mrs. Romney openly disgusted by the process and vowing she would never do it again, it looked like that might be it for Mitt.

1:29 pm

Mon August 20, 2012

Phyllis Diller, Comedy's Self-Deprecating Pioneer

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Diller poses with a photo at her Los Angeles home in 2005.

By Elizabeth Blair

Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 4:02 pm

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A queen of comedy has died. Phyllis Diller had audiences in stitches for more than five decades with her outlandish get-ups and rapid-fire one-liners. She died at her home, where she had been in hospice care after a fall. She was 95.

Diller was glamorously outrageous — or at least the character she created was glamorously outrageous, the one who wore wigs that made her look like she had her finger in an electrical outlet, who wore gaudy sequined outfits. She was known for her laugh and those nasty jokes about her dimwitted husband, "Fang."

1:03 pm

Mon August 20, 2012

Dissident's Death Stirs A Drama In Cuba

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Oswaldo Paya, who challenged Cuba's communist regime for decades, died in a car crash on July 22. A Spanish man who was driving Paya has been charged with the equivalent of vehicular manslaughter. Here, a nun holds a portrait of Paya during his funeral in Havana.

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Ofelia Acevedo (right), the widow of Oswaldo Paya, and her daughter Rosa Maria Paya hold a news conference in Havana earlier this month. Acevedo says she doesn't believe her husband's death was an accident.

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Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 4:02 pm

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The family of well-known Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who was killed in a car crash in July, claims that the Cuban government may have had a role in his death.

But as new details come to light, it appears that a European activist who came to help Paya ended up accidentally killing him on a trip gone horribly wrong.

Actually, two Europeans, both 27, were in the car with Paya at the time of his death. The Europeans had met through Facebook.

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