INTRO

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - November 13

* 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson is born* 1953 - Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communistic* 1974 - Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious one-car crash

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* modified-potato-from-simplot-approved-by-usda.html">USDA approves healthier GMO potato* Blood pressure drug cures diabetes in mice* 11-alternative-antibiotics.html">New alternative to antibiotics

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update on Oregon faith healing case* Humanism ruled to be a religion for establishment reasons* US Sixth Circuit Court upholds same sex marriage bans* Student punished for omitting “Under God”* Mars Hill has dissolved* Iran proposes lashes for having dogs

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Recorded for release on 2014-11-13