THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 13

* 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson is born

* 1953 – Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communistic
* 1974 – Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious one-car crash

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* USDA approves healthier GMO potato

* Blood pressure drug cures diabetes in mice
* New alternative to antibiotics

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update on Oregon faith healing case

* Humanism ruled to be a religion for establishment reasons
* US Sixth Circuit Court upholds same sex marriage bans
* Student punished for omitting “Under God”
* Mars Hill has dissolved
* Iran proposes lashes for having dogs

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Recorded for release on 2014-11-13