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Movie Interviews
3:49 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Quinto Turns Inward To Find Spock's Soul

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Leonard Nimoy (left) originated the role of Spock on Star Trek. Zachary Quinto (right) plays the character in the franchise's reboot.
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Quinto (left) as Spock, with Chris Pine as Kirk, in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
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A producer as well as an actor, Quinto has also appeared in the film Margin Call, in the TV series Heroes and 24 and onstage in the plays The Glass Menagerie and Angels in America.
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Originally published on Fri May 17, 2013 5:52 pm

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Music Interviews
3:22 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Bobby McFerrin: Spirituals As Sung Prayers

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Bobby McFerrin's new album is titled Spirityouall.
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U.S.
2:11 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action

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The PBF Energy refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., uses toxic chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid. Rather than using "inherently safer" design methods, the industry says, other safety measures are taken to prevent accidents like the one in West, Texas.
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In this photograph from 2009, children play in front of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India. Twenty-five years prior, in 1984, it was the site of a deadly gas leak that killed thousands of people.
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The West Fertilizer Co., shown from the air, lies in ruins after an explosion that killed 15 people, injured more than 150 and damaged houses and buildings for blocks in every direction.
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Originally published on Fri May 17, 2013 5:52 pm

You might think that everything would have changed for the chemicals industry on April 16, 1947. That was the day of the Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. A ship loaded with ammonium nitrate — the same chemical that appears to have caused the disaster last month in West, Texas — exploded. The ship sparked a chain reaction of blasts at chemical facilities onshore, creating what a newsreel at the time called "a holocaust that baffles description."

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It's All Politics
5:01 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Some Lawmakers Want Big-Budget Groups Included In IRS Debate

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Shots - Health News
4:31 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?

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Despite significant advances in neurology and imaging, researchers still don't have simple lab tests for diagnosing patients with mental disorders. Diagnoses are still mostly based on a patient's signs and symptoms.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, is the official list of all the mental disorders doctors can use to diagnose mental illness. It's updated every 20 years or so.
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Originally published on Fri May 17, 2013 11:51 am

The American Psychiatric Association is about to release an updated version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM helps mental health professionals decide who has problems such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia.

Psychiatry's new manual, DSM-5, has been nearly 20 years in the making. During that time, scientists have learned a lot about the brain. Yet despite some tweaks to categories such as autism and mood disorders, DSM-5 is remarkably similar to the version issued in 1994.

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