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  • Jury selection was underway in a courtroom in Waterloo, Iowa, when a potential juror left her wallet on a bench. She returned from a break and found cash missing. Witnesses and security cameras led authorities to a suspect. The man was another potential jury member.
  • The airline hired the coach to train its flight attendants to speak in hushed tones while serving passengers. Crews will be trained on tone and volume. The low tones are reserved for Virgin's new upper class dream suite.
  • It isn't known yet whether the murders were in response to the burning of Qurans by international forces. But they follow a wave of anti-American protests and four other killings of U.S. personnel.
  • Online cognitive behavioral therapy worked much better than office visits for teenagers with chronic fatigue syndrome, according to a new study. The convenience of online behavioral therapy may be one big reason why.
  • The New York Police Department has been monitoring Muslim students in cities as far away as Philadelphia, Buffalo and Syracuse, the Associated Press reports. Americans question whether this is a privacy breach or a necessary safety measure. Host Michel Martin speaks with an AP investigative reporter and a member of the national Muslim Students Association.
  • Well-established Asian American youth basketball leagues paved the way for Knicks star Jeremy Lin. That's according to Jamilah King, news editor for Colorlines.com. She discusses the leagues with host Michel Martin.
  • The new NBC drama stars Jason Isaacs as a man who survives a terrible car accident with either his wife or child. He's living one existence, and dreaming the other — but which is real? It's a lot of work for the viewer, but critic David Bianculli has faith in the show's creators.
  • By a 51-48 vote, the Senate set aside an effort to reverse the Obama administration's policy requiring most employers to provide health insurance plans that cover the cost of women's contraception methods.
  • The Venezuelan president was in Cuba for surgery of what is suspected to be a recurrence of cancer.
  • The Senate defeated the Blunt amendment, which would have let employers opt out of a mandate to pay for birth control coverage. Separately, a poll finds a majority of Americans support the mandate.
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