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I’m as happy as anyone that the Curiosity rover got to Mars; it’s hard not to root for all those NASA geeks in their blue polo shirts. But before you get all American and apple pie about the achievement, there’s something you should know: Curiosity runs on plutonium from a Soviet-era nuclear weapons plant.

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Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers.

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by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions of Americans’ personal finances collapsed in the face of unexpected stresses — loss of a job, collapse of a home’s value, decline in stock prices, or a medical emergency. Personal bankruptcy filings accelerated from just under 600,000 in 2006 to over 1.5 million in 2010. Sometimes the stresses piled on one another, as when the loss of a job deprived a family of medical insurance and then a medical emergency hit

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Slate Magazine (blog) Who’s Watching the Palin Documentary? Slate Magazine (blog) Before the movie rolled out, at one stage of the hysterical media speculation about it — including a premiere in Iowa that brought out Palin and inspired a Newsweek cover story/interview — we could speculate about a Going Rogue-style phenomenon, … and more »

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