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NFL: Dodging The Concussion Discussion?

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 08/26/2009 - 3:20am

Nobody's sure how dangerous the contact in football is to the brain. But high school players will experience more than 40,000 concussions this season and many former players suffer from dementia or depression.

So why is pro football taking a Big Tobacco approach to research?

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Say Goodbye to Art Buchwald

Austin Public Library Blog  Fri, 01/19/2007 - 10:00am


Prolific humor writer, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, and political gadfly, Art Buchwald died Wednesday of kidney failure.  For nearly six decades Buchwald wrote satire columns that appeared in more than 500 newspapers all across the country.