Sunday, February 7, 2016

What's The Best Way To Keep Mosquitoes From Biting? Plus 4 More Stories

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Goats and Soda

What's The Best Way To Keep Mosquitoes From Biting?

The advice for avoiding Zika virus: Don't get bitten by mosquitoes in countries where the virus is spreading. So which repellents work — and which don't?

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Politics

Coin-Toss Fact Check: No, Coin Flips Did Not Win Iowa For Hillary Clinton

Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by a razor-thin margin Monday night in Iowa. Some have attributed her win to an improbable lucky streak of coin tosses. Yes, coin tosses. But that's not the whole story.

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StoryCorps

Gone With A Gunshot, His Little Sister Remains 'Eternally 8'

Home alone with his sister, Sean Smith, then 10, stumbled upon a .38 revolver. In a single cataclysmic moment, Smith's sister was dead — and in all the years since, he hasn't lived the accident down.

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World

How China's One-Child Policy Led To Forced Abortions, 30 Million Bachelors

Journalist Mei Fong tells Fresh Air that China's one-child policy drastically reshaped the country's demographic make-up. "China has 30 million more men than women," she says. Her book is One Child.

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The Two-Way

Playboy Begins Anew As A Never-Nude Magazine

Compared with the primness of Tobias Fünke, the famed sufferer of Never Nude syndrome from Arrested Development, Playboy's take on the concept is a bit different.

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NPR

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