| Guy Raz, NPR Biography
He returned to NPR in June 2006 and began working on stories about ideas rather than events. His latest project was a five-part series called "The Language of our Times" which ran on All Things Considered in the Autumn of 2006. The stories attempted to turn words and terms into "characters." He also profiled former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and current Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice through the ghost of their shared mentor, Josef Korbel. As CNN's Jerusalem correspondent, Raz chronicled everything from the rise of Hamas as a political power to the incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Israel's withdrawl from the Gaza Strip in 2005. In May 2004, he spent six weeks with US forces in Najaf during a period of heavy fighting with Shiite insurgents.
Why Sheryl Crow is starting over
Then, on February 11, five days after her 44th birthday, a routine mammogram revealed calcifications in both breasts that her doctor said were not unusual, but worth checking more closely. Even after she had the biopsies, she didn't really worry: she has no family history of cancer, has never had implants or cosmetic work, and was so fit that she looked - and felt - far younger than her age. 'I've cancelled just two gigs in 15 years from being hoarse,' she says, 'so it was such a shocker to be diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.' She is happy to talk about it now, because her story shows the advantages of early detection. She had a lumpectomy and radiation, rather than the more radical mastectomy, which was followed by chemotherapy. None the less, her ordeal was distressingly public.
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Although scientists have noticed low-oxygen waters near the Pacific Ocean's shore for the past five years, this summer's persistent northerly winds have left pockets of ocean water off the Oregon coast almost completely devoid of oxygen.Fish and crabs are relocating or suffocating as a result, and Oregon State University researchers are trying to determine what is causing this "dead zone" and whether the low-oxygen patterns seen since 2002 reflect a permanent atmospheric and oceanic shift."If this was a normal thing that happened all the time, then it wouldn't be such a big deal. When we see data that is unlike anything we've seen in 50 years of records, we're certainly alarmed," said Francis Chan, OSU marine ecologist.Chan, along with Jane Lubchenco, a professor of marine biology, and Jack Barth, an oceanography professor, are the primary researchers studying hypoxia (low oxygen) on the 70-mile stretch of coastline between Florence and Lincoln City.It's a collaborative effort among OSU, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and Pisco (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Ocean), a research consortium involving OSU, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of California Santa Cruz and Stanford University.In August, Chan took about six cruises on the Elakha, OSU's 54-foot research vessel, to collect water samples and analyze their oxygen levels.
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