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May 19, 2016

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"Grey's" long life, the fraught relationship between galleries and museums, and what it's like to live in a Chinese "Cancer Village."

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"Grey's Anatomy" cashes in on the Netflix Effect

by Adriene Hill
May 19, 2016
The series will enter its 13th season thanks, in part, to viewers who binge first.
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Life and death inside a Chinese 'cancer village'

by Rob Schmitz
May 19, 2016
Villagers in central China blame a chemical factory for a high incidence of cancer.
Liuchong villager Zhang Runxiang, with her mother in 2013, died two days after this picture was taken. Villagers say their water has been poisoned by a chemical company.
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Groceries offer Wal-Mart a boost

by Mark Garrison
May 19, 2016
As many retailers struggle, Wal-Mart has boosted earnings with walk-in groceries.
An employee restocks a shelf in the grocery section of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in 2005 in Troy, Ohio.
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The TPP's economic impact

by Tracey Samuelson
May 19, 2016
The numbers are big. But also small. We explain.
Thousands of truck-sized 30-ton shipping containers are stacked aboard the Hanjin Oslo freighter in the Port of Los Angeles in 2002.
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Museums and art galleries: Who's using whom?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
May 19, 2016
The relationship between some museums and galleries has changed, and blurred.
"200 One Dollar Bills" by Andy Warhol, valued at $8 million to $12 million, is displayed during a preview of a Sotheby's in 2009 in New York City. 
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Theranos voids two years of botched blood-test results

by Kai Ryssdal
May 19, 2016
The Wall Street Journal reports tens of thousands of corrections were issued.
NBC's Maria Shriver, left, interviews Theranos Founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco in 2015.
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Final Note

"60 Minutes" mainstay Morley Safer dead at 84

by Kai Ryssdal
May 19, 2016
He talked to just about everyone about just about everything.
CBS correspondent Morley Safer in 2008.  
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“Grey’s” long life, the fraught relationship between galleries and museums, and what it’s like to live in a Chinese “Cancer Village.”

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