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  • Consumer Reports expressed concern about high levels of lead in some two dozen protein powders, but only with repeated high exposure. Here's what to know before you make your next grocery run.
  • The planet may also be racked by wars over food and water; and individuals, equipped with new lethal and disruptive technologies, will be capable of causing widespread harm. The scenarios are the work of the National Intelligence Council, comprising the 17 U.S. government intelligence agencies.
  • The 2018 report found major damage to the concrete structural slab below the pool deck and warned that extensive repairs would be needed soon. The mayor is considering evacuating a sister building.
  • Commentator Reuven Frank says it's the horserace (who's ahead, who's behind?) that the people are interested in hearing about -- and it should be the horserace that reporters report. (3:15) CUTAWAY 1A 0:59 1B 3. TOBACCO -- NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the power, both political and financial, that tobacco companies have long had seems to be waning.
  • Daniel Zwerdling talks to Washington Post reporter Nora Boustany about suicide bombers. Boustany spent almost 20 years reporting from the Middle East. She says the process of indoctrinating young Palestinian men into martydom cults begins during childhood. Boustany says these young men are convinced that they are giving their lives for their faith and that they will be rewarded in heaven.
  • NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the Clinton administration admitted for the first time today that it looked the other way in 1994 when Iran clandestinely shipped arms to Bosnia in violation of the United Nations arms embargo. Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff told a House panel that Congress should have known about the shipments because the information was available in daily intelligence reports.
  • NPR's Dan Charles reports that researchers in Denmark have shown that genetically engineered plants can pass their genes to related weeds. In a report in the journal Nature, researchers showed that a rapeseed plant passed the genes it received through genetic engineering to make the plant herbicide-resistant to a weed. The finding raises questions about the effects that genetically engineered plants could have on the enviroment.
  • NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that money fertilizes everything in Seattle, sprouting important architecture, philanthropy, and new companies. Most of the money comes from the software, telecom and Internet worlds. Prakash reports on an incipient trend: software moguls using some of their millions to attack problems that technology hasn't been able to solve so far -- like a cure for cancer.
  • Moscow Times reporter Natalya Yefimova reports that an explosion ripped through a crowded underground walkway in central Moscow today, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens more. Police said the blast was apparently caused by a bomb planted in the passageway beneath Pushkin Square. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the mayor of Moscow was quick to suggest Chechen rebels might be to blame.
  • Robert talks to Associated Press Reporter David Pace about his report indicating that casinos run by American Indians have not alleviated poverty and unemployment on most reservations. Pace did a computer analysis of federal unemployment, poverty and public assistance records to help draw his conclusions. Only a third of the Indian reservations in the US even have casinos, and not all of those are successful.
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