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Our four-month break from full-time presidential campaigns has apparently ended with today's release of 2016 presidential poll showing Hillary Clinton crushing her opposition.
The stigma of the smart kid (5X8 – 3/7/13)
Do gifted learners get enough attention, the 86-year-old face of voter fraud, people swamped in rising economic tide, what's it like to know a drone is looking for you, and when can same-sex couples kiss in public?
A 'watered-down' gun bill finds favor at the Capitol, Gabby Giffords returns to the scene of the crime, the east tries our snowstorm on for size, and an old-fashioned filibuster in the Senate breaks out because the U.S. won't rule out using a drone to kill Americans on U.S. soil.
The average commuting time in Minneapolis-Saint Paul is now about 24 minutes. Curiously, that's only increased a little over three minutes in the last 23 years.
The HIV baby (5×8 – 3/6/13)
Parents v. county in HIV baby dispute, the price of booze, is the end near for SXSW, where snow smells like money, and the people who do 'throwback' jobs.