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The Road Back To Work
2:26 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

When The Road Back To Work Detours

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Randy Howland works in his small office in March, shortly after he began a work-from-home job with a call center earning $10 an hour.
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For the long-term unemployed, getting a job isn't always the end of the story.

Randy Howland spent most of this past year working at a $10-an-hour customer service job. He used to make six figures. With this job, he was settling, just so he could have the satisfaction of working. It was essentially a call-center job.

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Around the Nation
2:22 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

How A Teen's Coerced Confession Set Her Free

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Nga Truong (front) meets with social services advocate Lisa Gigliotti. Truong says she's struggling to rebuild her life after nearly three years awaiting trial for murder.
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A screenshot of video footage attainted by WBUR shows Worcester Police Sgt. Kevin Pageau (right) and Detective John Doherty as they interrogate Nga Truong, 16, following the 2008 death of her baby boy.
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Before his death in 2008, Nga Truong's son, Khyle, suffered from respiratory problems that required a nebulizer.
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Movies
2:19 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

2011 In Film: Bob Mondello's Top 10 (Plus 10)

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'Pina': German filmmaker Wim Wenders' 3-D dance documentary is a homage to influential German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009.
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'The Artist': Silent-screen idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and up-and-coming dancer Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) share a vivacious moment onstage.
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'Tree of Life': Brad Pitt plays an archetypal 1950s patriarch who loves his family — but can't help imposing his expectations on them.
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'Midnight In Paris': Owen Wilson, playing the time-traveling hero Gil, wants to write novels instead of movies, much to the horror of his fiancee Inez, played by Rachel McAdams.
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'Incendies': After the death of the widowed Nawal (Lubna Azabal), her adult children slowly discover the bitterness of her childhood in a country plagued by endless cycles of violence.
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'The Trip': Steve Coogan (right) and his friend Rob Brydon tour Northern England and engage in a battle of competing impressions in the road trip comedy.
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Wizards, transformers and vampires did their best, but they couldn't transform 2011 into a magical year for Hollywood: Despite all the 3-D and IMAX screenings and the premium prices that come with them, industry box office sagged by half a billion dollars compared with last year. But quality? That's another story.

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Around the Nation
2:11 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

'Haters' Are Going To Hate This Story

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The word "Hater" — as it's often used today — is derived from the term "Player Hater," a phrase popularized by late rapper Notorious B.I.G., shown here clutching his Billboard Music Awards in 1995.
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A fist with the word "hate" on it.
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Originally published on Sat December 31, 2011 6:20 am

Haters are here. And there. And everywhere. And the word "hate" is in the air.

Fox has a new sitcom: I Hate My Teenage Daughter. A recent issue of Us magazine tells us "Why Scarlett Johansson Hates Blake Lively." Psychology Today explains "Why We Hate Airport Security." Dick Meyer, formerly of NPR and now executive producer for news services at BBC America, wrote a provocative book called Why We Hate Us.

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The Salt
2:08 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

A Year That Was Good To Beets

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Heirloom beets served at Bibiana Restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C.
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Children hate beets. Many adults hate beets. In fact, so few people in the U.S. eat table beets that the federal government doesn't bother to keep track of how many are grown and sold, even though it does keep track of just about every other crop, including turnip greens and horseradish.

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