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  • Even before ICE agents arrested dozens of people in North Texas over the weekend, rumors on social media of immigration enforcement were stirring confusion and uncertainty.
  • Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan in February, curling superfans turn out in Sioux Falls, S.D., for trials to determine which U.S. team will compete in "chess on ice" against the world.
  • 2: Adventure writer TIM CAHILL. CAHILL writes in a self-deprecating way about his death-defying experiences around the world. His accounts of adventures in caves, mountains, deserts, and rapids appear in his collections, "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg,"and "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh." He's also a columnist for "Outside Magazine." Last summer, CAHILL traveled to the North Pole on an old Soviet Ice-breaker, and currently he is working on a book describing his travels in the unexplored and uninhabited Ndoke Forest of the northern Congo. (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 4/5/89.)Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. THEROUX is no ordinary travel writer: his books are about exotic voyages, some by train, and others by foot. His work includes "The Great Railway Bazaar," "The Old Patagonian Express," and "The Kingdom By The Sea." He's also a novelist, perhaps best known for "The Mosquito Coast," which became a film starring Harrison Ford. THEROUX'S most recent book, published this past February, is a fictional work titled "Millroy the Magician" (Random House). (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 7
  • Actresses Joan Allen (Pat Nixon in Nixon, The Ice Storm, Pleasantville and the upcoming film The Contender) and Laurie Metcalf (a regular on TV's Norm, longtime co-star of Roseanne).
  • Noah speaks with Mike Byers, Files Supervisor with the Department of Public Works in Hot Springs, Arkansas about the work being done to clear the roads of fallen trees. A damaging ice storm hit Arkansas this week and many people are still without power.
  • Now that President Trump no longer can separate migrant families detained at the border, his administration is preparing to lock them up together — an arrangement with many critics and legal limits.
  • As we mourn the golf great, we acknowledge another contribution he made to our culture: the tasty and refreshing iced tea and lemonade beverage that carries his name.
  • Glaciers there are "an early indicator of the kinds of changes that are going to occur elsewhere," a scientist says. Since 1966, the glaciers in Glacier National Park shrunk an average of 39 percent.
  • By Ted Samore, KERA 90.1 commentatorDallas, TX – Being the only child at a holiday dinner with four grown-ups is not much fun. Especially when you're four…
  • Scientists measured temperatures of -137 Fahrenheit on the highest section of the East Antarctic ice divide. That's almost 10 degrees colder than the previous record.
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