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The Salt
10:58 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Greeks Stomach Economic Crisis With Help Of 'Starvation Recipes'

Credit Thanassis Stavrakis / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Historian and cookbook author Eleni Nikolaidou with her book Starvation Recipes. Recession-hit Greeks are fascinated with the book's World War II-era survival tips and recipes.

When Eleni Nikolaidou began studying the survival diets of World War II Greece a couple of years ago, she never expected to turn the research for her master's thesis into a cookbook.

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Television
10:39 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Louis C.K. Reflects On 'Louie,' Loss, Love And Life

In the FX TV series Louie, comic Louis C.K. plays a divorced father of two struggling to balance his comedy career with being a single dad. The show, which has just been picked up for a third season, is often based on events that have happened to C.K. in his own life.

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It's All Politics
10:34 am
Tue December 13, 2011

New Poll Suggests Latino Voters See 'Hostile' GOP

Credit YURI GRIPAS / Reuters /Landov
Nearly half of the Latino voters in a new survey said nominating Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice presidential candidate would have no effect on their votes.

The overwhelming majority of Latino voters believe that the Republican Party ignores them or is outright "hostile," and that nominating Hispanic Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice presidential candidate might do little to change it, according to a national poll released Monday.

The December survey, conducted by impreMedia and the polling group Latino Decisions, is the first to test the popularity of the freshman senator from Florida with America's Hispanics.

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The Two-Way
10:25 am
Tue December 13, 2011

White House's 'Promise Kept' Iraq Timeline Starts On Jan. 20, 2009

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"Promise Kept," it says on the landing page of the Iraq War interactive timeline posted by the White House today.

A message from the White House on its Twitter page popped up a few minutes ago saying:

"After nearly 9 years of sacrifice, America's war in Iraq is coming to an end. Experience the interactive timeline: wh.gov/iraq"

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Shots - Health Blog
10:05 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Dirty Little Secret: Almost Nobody Cleans Contacts Properly

Credit Marek Brzezinski / iStockPhoto.com
Odds are that's a nasty dirty lens.

People who wear contact lenses say they're diligent about keeping them clean. But press them for details, and it turns out that hardly anyone is doing it the right way.

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