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2:55 pm
Thu January 3, 2013

Hit-And-Run Deaths Increase, But Culprits Hard To Capture

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Officers Carol Mitchell and John Hill investigate the death of a disabled teen who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles.
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A memorial for Conor Lynch, a 16-year-old who was killed in a hit-and-run accident in 2010.
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Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 5:10 pm

Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are increasing nationwide, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Los Angeles and New York City have the highest rates of those deaths.

In Los Angeles, where the car is the major mode of transportation, hit and runs involving pedestrians occur almost daily. But these crimes can be the most difficult for law enforcement to investigate and solve.

People Don't Want To Get Involved

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U.S.
2:49 pm
Thu January 3, 2013

For Many Kids, Winter Break Means Hungry Holidays

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Tamara Burney's kindergartners eat lunch in the Hillview Elementary cafeteria in Jefferson County, Ala.
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Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 5:10 pm

Holidays are typically a festive time, with breaks from the routine, meals with loved ones, maybe even some gifts. But for many families across the U.S., the season comes with intense stress: Roughly 1 in 5 families with children are not getting enough food.

For some, free or reduced-price school meals have become a major source of basic nutrition. When schools close for the holidays, many of those families struggle to fill the gap.

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Sports
5:26 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

Game, Set And Match: U.S. Tennis Tournaments Move Abroad

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Pete Sampras returns a forehand against Russia's Marat Safin during an exhibition tennis match at the L.A. Tennis Open tournament in 2009. The tournament, which has been around for decades, is now relocating to Colombia as America's dominance in the sport declines and global appeal surges.
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Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 6:16 am

Throughout most of its 86 years, Los Angeles' premier tennis tournament attracted the biggest names in the game. But over the years, stars stopped coming, and so did fans.

Now the Farmers Classic, which has been in L.A. since 1927, is headed to Bogota after it was bought by a Colombian sports marketing and entertainment company.

"There's a big hole in my heart. And believe me, this is something we didn't see coming, I'll be honest," says Bob Kramer, longtime tournament director of the Farmers Classic.

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Science
3:50 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

'Stand Your Ground' Linked To Increase In Homicides

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George Zimmerman (left) and his attorney appear in court for a bond hearing in June. Zimmerman's case sparked a nationwide debate about so-called "stand your ground" laws.
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Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 9:54 am

If a stranger attacks you inside your own home, the law has always permitted you to defend yourself. On the other hand, if an altercation breaks out in public, the law requires you to try to retreat. At least, that's what it used to do.

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Middle East
2:58 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

On Multiple Fronts, Russian Jews Reshape Israel

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Russian-speaking Israelis mingle at the Soho nightclub in Tel Aviv. The club caters to the Russian-speaking immigrant community, featuring hired dancers and extravagant decorations rarely seen in informal Israel.
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People gather for a Russian folk music festival in northern Israel in May. About 2,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union attended the two-day festival, singing Russian standards, barbecuing and drinking vodka.
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Children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union attend a ballet class in Lod, central Israel. Some prominent ballet dancers left the former Soviet Union for Israel, forming ballet schools and continuing a dance culture highly regarded in their countries of origin.
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Immigrants from the former Soviet Union practice sword-fighting in full knight armor at a public park in Ramat Gan, central Israel. Medieval combat simulation is popular in ex-Soviet countries, and some immigrants have continued the hobby in Israel.
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Russian-speaking Israeli immigrants train at a boxing club in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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A choir practices in a government-funded elderly care facility catering to Russian-speaking immigrants in Ashdod. The choir sings Russian standards and Israeli folk songs translated into Russian.
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Canned sardines are served at a family dinner at the home of Moldovan immigrant Puma Rotner in Ashdod. Rotner left her native city of Bendery in Moldova in 2006, bringing her dishes and silverware to Israel.
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Bella Perlin (center) and Avraham Shapiro (left), Belarusian immigrants, eat breakfast at their home in Hadera, northern Israel. They moved to Israel in 1991 at the height of the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union.
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Alexandra Bahman, who immigrated to Israel from Moldova in 2006, sits in her bedroom with her cat in Ashdod. Bahman left Moldova with the carpet and photos that now decorate her bedroom walls.
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Two immigrants from the Ural region of the former Soviet Union rinse off after bathing in the Mediterranean Sea on an early December morning in Tel Aviv. Many Soviet immigrants gather at the beach for a traditional winter dip, the closest substitute to the freezing waters of the former Soviet Union.
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Acrobats wait in a dressing room before their show at L'Chaim, a Russian restaurant in Ashdod. Many circus performers in Israel emigrated from the former Soviet Union, and acrobatic shows are a unique feature of Russian restaurants in Israel.
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People attend a 2011 New Year's party catering to the upper crust of Israel's Russian-speaking immigrant community, in Tel Aviv.
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An employee of the Mizra pork factory poses with a pig's head in a refrigerated warehouse in Kibbutz Mizra, northern Israel. The million-strong Soviet immigrant community has increased customer demand for pork in the country, a nonkosher food rarely eaten by Israeli Jews.
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Russian-speaking Israelis mingle at the Soho nightclub in Tel Aviv. The club caters to the Russian-speaking immigrant community, featuring hired dancers and extravagant decorations rarely seen in informal Israel.
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Gymnasts from Russian-speaking immigrant families warm up at a gymnastics competition organized for Israel's immigrant community, in the southern resort city of Eilat. Most of Israel's Olympic gymnasts are immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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A waiter serves traditional Russian food at a seaside restaurant in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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Originally published on Sun January 6, 2013 7:54 am

Many signs are in the Cyrillic alphabet. The men and women sitting in the cafes are speaking Russian. The shops sell vodka, black bread, pickled herring and Russian-brewed Baltika beer. You have to pinch yourself to remember where you are.

This scene, with all its echoes of the former Soviet Union, is not in St. Petersburg or Vladivostok, or anywhere else in that vast sweep of bleak northern lands. It is in Ashdod, Israel, a palm-lined, pastel-colored port city that sprawls along the mild shores of the Mediterranean.

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 All Things Considered debuted on 90 public radio stations at 5:00pm on May 3, 1971.

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