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  • Players for the Canton Charge end a break in their game against the Idaho Stampede by bumping fists, during the NBA D-League Showcase at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Jan. 6. Players in the D-League, professional basketball's minor league, often forgo more lucrative careers playing overseas to toil in obscurity for a shot at the NBA.
    Playing For A Chance: The Promise And Pain Of The NBA's Minor League
    Everyone knows about the multimillion-dollar salaries and celebrity status of NBA players. But in the shadows of the NBA, men toil in the relative obscurity of the D-League to keep their dream alive.
  • Some ancient statues on Easter Island wear multi-ton stone "hats" known as <em>pukao</em>. A team of researchers say that a technique called parbuckling was most likely used to move the hats into place.
    How Did Easter Islanders Lift Statues' 13-Ton Hats? Researchers May Have The Answer
    3-D models show that grooves had been worn down the center of the stones, suggesting that a technique known as parbuckling might have been used.
  • Dallas Smith
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    Dallas Smith
    Dallas Smith has performed in the U.S., Europe, and India, moving between the inspired and fluid world of meditation, the complex and exciting rhythms of Indian fusion, the complex world of jazz, and his own compositions, which blend all of them.
  • Mitt Romney Does Well In ESPN's Bracket Challenge
    Romney landed near the top of 11.5 million entries in ESPN's Tournament Challenge. He had a perfect Final Four — finally beating President Obama, who, by the way, had Kentucky winning it all.
  • Yemeni Al-Qaida Leader Claims Responsibility For Paris Attack
    Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, appeared in an 11-minute Internet video posted Wednesday, saying the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in "vengeance for the prophet."
  • Mayor Of Houston Suburb Decided By Pulling Name Out Of A Hat
    The race between Sean Skipworth and Jennifer Lawrence ended in a tie. In accordance with Texas law, the winner would be decided by drawing a name from a top hat. Skipworth was the lucky winner.
  • The Redwalls affect a musical style that has drawn comparisons to a much earlier foursome.
    Meet The Redwalls: A Brand New Throwback Band
    Four young guys in dark mop-top haircuts, slightly mod suits peer with disarming insoucience from the cover of an album produced by Capitol Records. Meet The Redwalls, who are touring the country with a CD, de nova, that evokes the sound of the early Beatles.
  • Graphic Novelist with a Comic Sensibility
    Derek Kirk Kim's debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories has won the top three awards of the comic world. He talks with NPR's Jacki Lyden.
  • A Tuneful 'Coming Home' for Lionel Richie
    The award-winning singer, songwriter and producer, who bowed out as frontman for The Commodores for huge career as a solo artist in the 1980s, has a new CD — a nugget of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.
  • Madonna: Pop Icon, Children's Writer
    After a chart-topping and occasionally controversial music career, she s now turning out children s books publishing four in just over a year. The newest is The Adventures of Abdi. The others are The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples and Yakov and the Seven Thieves. Her fifth, Lotsa de Casha, is due out in April 2005.
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