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Medicaid Helps Washington, D.C., Clinic Care For Ex-Prisoners

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A Unity Health Care patient gets his ears checked.

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Originally published on Mon September 17, 2012 5:39 pm

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Dr. Ilse Levin specializes in internal medicine, but you could say she really focuses on incarceration medicine.

3:16 pm

Mon September 17, 2012

What Drove Early Man Across Globe? Climate Change

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An artist's re-creation of the first human migration to North America from across the Bering Sea.

By Christopher Joyce

Originally published on Mon September 17, 2012 5:39 pm

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Anthropologists believe early humans evolved in Africa and then moved out from there in successive waves. However, what drove their migrations has been a matter of conjecture.

One new explanation is climate change.

Anthropologist Anders Erikkson of Cambridge University in England says the first few hardy humans who left Africa might've gone earlier but couldn't. Northeastern Africa — the only route to Asia and beyond — was literally a no man's land.

2:44 pm

Mon September 17, 2012

Shriveled Mich. Apple Harvest Means Fewer Jobs, Tough Year Ahead

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A lonely Michigan apple.

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The Michigan Gala apples on this packing line will soon be in short supply. After a mild fall and winter, then a late-April freeze, Michigan's apple cultivation has dropped 90 percent.

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Joe Rasch has been a full-time apple grower for nearly 20 years. He says that this year, he's having trouble filling his bins.

By Noah Adams

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 1:42 pm

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An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but what do you do when there are no apples? It's a question western Michigan's apple growers are dealing with this season after strange weather earlier in the year decimated the state's apple cultivation.

Michigan is the third-largest apple producer in the U.S. after New York and Washington, but the state's apples will soon be in short supply. Now in the middle of harvest season, growers are picking only 10 percent to 15 percent of their normal crop.

10:29 am

Mon September 17, 2012

Same Camera, Different Century: Capturing Civil War Sites, 150 Years Later

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Here's a snapshot from the field as Harrington composed his image of Burnside Bridge — which involved schlepping the huge, fragile camera down a steep incline to get the right perspective.

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The wet-plate camera used by Alexander Gardner after the Battle of Antietam was like this one: It had two lenses, which created a "stereo" image, or two identical images side by side on one plate.

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Here's what you see when you go under that little black cloth. Naturally, the view is in color — though at first it's a bit surprising. You can see how the camera's twin lenses project two identical images. But it takes some getting used to: The images on the focus plate are upside down and backward.

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To work like Gardner did in the field, the photographer needs a portable darkroom. The interior of Todd Harrington's is like an alchemist's laboratory.

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Todd Harrington holds a developed wet plate up to the light to check its exposure.

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Harrington compares his exposure to the original, to see if they line up correctly.

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Originally published on Mon September 17, 2012 5:39 pm

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Believe it or not, there's a lot of food involved in wet-plate photography. Egg whites (albumen) are used to make the glass plates adhesive to the light-sensitive chemicals. And one way to keep the plates from drying out after processing is to coat them in honey. It's also physically demanding, so you get really hungry.

3:43 pm

Sun September 16, 2012

Could SuperPACS Shift Strategy To Congress?

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Originally published on Mon September 17, 2012 8:50 am

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Polls can be unstable. Up until the last moment, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronald Reagan in 1980. And in the past two weeks, President Obama has started to pull ahead of Mitt Romney.

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