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A researcher hopes to catch an unusual reflection among the trees at night. Green mambas like to hide in the highest branches.

At Guinea's only specialized snakebite clinic, doctors need luck and antivenom

Life or death in this country's only specialized clinic depends on how fast people can make the arduous trip to get there and the number of doses on hand.

Drivers on Interstate 95 in North Hampton, New Hampshire, part of the Blue Star Turnpike that extends from the Massachusetts state line in Seabrook to the Maine state line in Portsmouth.

Precios de casas aumentan en NH. Legislatura y sanciones DUI.

La gobernadora Ayotte pide a legisladores de la Cámara apoyar un proyecto de ley que endurece las penalidades para los conductores que se niegan a la prueba de alcoholemia.

A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them.

Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse

In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms.

A woman and girl embrace on a mattress placed on the floor of a room

Vermont pushed hundreds of people out of motels this fall. Here’s where some ended up

Some people are doubling up with friends and family. Others have strained their budgets to stay longer in the motels. And many are sleeping outside.

Jordan Obit

Former Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas died today after a long illness. Ms. Jordan was one of the most influential blacks on Capitol Hill and reached national stature as an outspoken member of the House Judiciary Committee that recommended the impeachment of President Richard Nixon in 1974. We hear an excerpt from a speech she gave at the 1992 Democratic Convention.

Bob Edwards Talks With Cokie Roberts About How The Presidential Campaign

has moved to Capitol Hill. Both President Clinton and Republican front-runner Senator Bob Dole will use their negotiations with Congress as indications of their capability for leadership.

Murder/Hate Crime Investigation

From West Virginia Public Radio, Jeff Young reports on the murder of a gay black man in the northeastern hill community of Grant Town. The death of 26 year old Arthur "JR" Warren Jr. is still under investigation, and two teenagers from a nearby town have been charged with murder.

Tornadoes Kill More than 30 in Several States

Tornadoes kill at least 33 people in several states, including Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio. In Carbon Hill, Ala., two tornadoes kill seven people. Hear Melanie Peeples and NPR's Adam Hochberg.

Alex Chadwick Speaks With Shannon Ravenal,

editor of "Best of the South", a collection of short stories. The selections were chosen from the past ten installments of "New Stories from the South", an annual collection of southern short stories. Both anthologies are published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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