President Thein Sein becomes the first leader of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. The meeting is viewed as an affirmation of the nation's democratic transition. Some advocacy groups are concerned that the Obama administration is rewarding Myanmar with a visit before Thein Sein has followed through on all of his promises for reform.
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ASK LARRY | May 20
Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?
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On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies at an event honoring the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. This is the column that O'Brien wrote immediately following Ride's death in July 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Paul Solman looks back to the 1912 presidential election when economic disparity between the rich and poor was a key issue in debates between William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
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Although the brood II cicadas aren't expected to emerge en masse until late May or June, a nice crop of them nested in a batch of poison ivy in Virgina’s Bull Run Regional Park on Thursday. Their veiny wings and bright beady red eyes clung to grass, leaves and tree bark.
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It is another Gatsby/Fitzgerald moment. "The Great Gatsby" is on the big screen now directed by Baz Luhrmann. Jeff Brown talks to a F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar about what fascinates so many to continue to write books about the American author and reinterpret his classic novels on film.
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With small signs of relief in the Eastern U.S., the forecast now shows more trouble ahead as the drought is expected to intensify in the West and Central Plains this summer, according to NOAA.
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A leading economist explains why game theory has become so important in economics, and how Jane Austen anticipated its results 200 years ago.
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