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Raging Sun Storms In Our Minds

After listening to scientists talk about solar flares, a team of artists went to the drawing board and crafted a gorgeous fiction: loops of lightning flashing between gizmos, curling up walls, and leaking into corridors. However, the fanciful mis-translation sparked some ire from scientists.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/03/14/148605162/raging-sunstorms-in-our-minds?ft=1&f=1057

Israel, Steve Issa, Darrell E. Jackson, Jesse L. Jr. Jackson Lee, Sheila Jenkins, Lynn

Why Do the Islands Play Role in GOP Primary?

Byron York, DC Examiner
On Wednesday, the Romney campaign's political director, Rich Beeson, sent out a message touting Mitt Romney's latest delegate pickups. Yes, Rick Santorum won Alabama, Mississippi, and Kansas, Beeson said, but "Governor Romney's wins over the same period in Wyoming, the Northern Marianas, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and American Samoa have helped expand his delegate lead, pushing closer to the nomination."

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/16/why_do_the_islands_play_role_in_gop_primary_275554.html

Lummis, Cynthia M. Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch, Stephen F. McCarthy, Carolyn McCarthy, Kevin

DNA Used To Identify Argentina's 'Dirty War' Orphans

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to Francisco Goldman, of The New Yorker, about his article "Children of the Dirty War.'" More than 30 years ago in Argentina, children were stolen from their birth parents. it was a terror campaign waged by the military junta against members of the opposition.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/16/148732809/-dirty-war-children-returned-to-argentine-relatives?ft=1&f=1004

Bordallo, Madeleine Z. Boren, Dan Boswell, Leonard L. Boucher, Rick Boustany, Charles W. Jr.

In Illinois, Rick's Momentum Meets Mitt's Money

Alex Altman, Time
John Zahm has his hands full. He is the only paid campaign staffer for Rick Santorum in the entire state of Illinois, which hosts the next crucial clash in the Republican nominating contest on Tuesday. A local Tea Party leader and home-schooling advocate who worked for Mike Huckabee in 2008, Zahm was hired two days before Christmas. Part of his brief was to carry out a key assignment: Get Santorum on the ballot in Illinois. It almost didn’t happen. Illinois is an unlikely battleground for Republicans. It hasn’t hosted a pivotal GOP primary since the...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/16/in_illinois_rick039s_momentum_meets_mitt039s_money_275576.html

Scalise, Steve Schakowsky, Janice D. Schauer, Mark H. Schiff, Adam B. Schmidt, Jean

For Mitt Romney, Things Could Be Worse

Alexander Burns, Politico
 Believe it or not, Mitt Romney may be the luckiest man in America.That’s not how politicos tend to think these days of the former Massachusetts governor, who has seen his public image shredded and his campaign treasury drained in a series of unexpected fights with his disorganized primary opposition.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/15/for_mitt_romney_things_could_be_worse_275525.html

Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. Fallin, Mary Farr, Sam Fattah, Chaka Filner, Bob

Watch Bernanke's 'Little' Inflation Capsize U.S.

Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg
A little is all right. That’s the message Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has been giving out recently when asked about the evidence of inflation in the U.S. recovery.Sometimes Bernanke doesn’t even go that far. He simply says he doesn’t see inflation. The Fed chairman recently described the prospects for price increases across the board as “subdued.”“Sudden” is more like it. The thing about inflation is that it comes out of nowhere and hits you. Monetary policy is like sailing. You’re gliding along,...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/15/watch_bernanke039s_039little039_inflation_capsize_us_275471.html

Hirono, Mazie K. Hodes, Paul W. Hoekstra, Peter Holden, Tim Holt, Rush D.

Why Compromise Is A Bad Word In Politics

Why do voters want leaders who are adaptable, but detest those who don't stick to their guns? Social science research indicates voters want compromise but only when the other side is caving in.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148499310/why-compromise-is-terrible-politics?ft=1&f=1007

McIntyre, Mike McKeon, Howard P. \"Buck\'\' McMahon, Michael E. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy McNerney, Jerry

Raging Sun Storms In Our Minds

After listening to scientists talk about solar flares, a team of artists went to the drawing board and crafted a gorgeous fiction: loops of lightning flashing between gizmos, curling up walls, and leaking into corridors. However, the fanciful mis-translation sparked some ire from scientists.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/03/14/148605162/raging-sunstorms-in-our-minds?ft=1&f=1057

Platts, Todd Russell Poe, Ted Polis, Jared Pomeroy, Earl Posey, Bill

Mississippi Builds Insurance Exchange, Even As It Fights Health Law

Unlike Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and other conservative states in the South, Mississippi is well on its way to having an insurance exchange ready for operation by the 2014 deadline laid out by the health overhaul law.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/15/148619791/mississippi-builds-insurance-exchange-even-as-it-fights-health-law?ft=1&f=1003

Connolly, Gerald E. Conyers, John Jr. Cooper, Jim Costa, Jim Costello, Jerry F.

Do We Have a Plan B for Afghanistan?

Steve Coll, The New Yorker
The sound coming from Afghanistan these days—painfully familiar to those who have travelled there over the past three decades—is of fabric ripping. Periodically, Afghanistan unravels. The country remains very weak after decades of continual violence, emigration, upheaval, return, clandestine war waged by neighbors, and overt war waged by international powers. A pair of horrifying events—the accidental burning of Korans and riots in reaction, followed by a rampage by an American sniper who killed sixteen villagers in rural Kandahar—have now called into...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/14/do_we_have_a_plan_b_for_afghanistan_275392.html

Perlmutter, Ed Perriello, Thomas S. P. Peters, Gary C. Peterson, Collin C. Petri, Thomas E.