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Where are All the Democrats Going?

As Democrats in Denver prepare for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech tonight and the end of the convention, journalist/columnist David Sirota discusses where the Democratic Party is heading. We find out how Obama and the Democratic Party have become competitive in states that have been solidly Republican in recent years – states like North Dakota and Georgia – and what that means for voters in November and beyond.

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Political Lessons from Colorado

Find out what Sen. Barack Obama can learn from Colorado’s Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, who’s presiding over a left-leaning political transformation of his state. Ryan Lizza has written an article in the Sept. 1 issue of the New Yorker called "The Code of the West."

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Charlton Heston: Cinematic Atlas

Holly Heston, Charlton Heston’s daughter, talks about her father’s career in Hollywood, and tells us what it was like to grow up with Ben Hur and Moses for a dad. Walter Seltzer is one of Heston’s long-time producing partners. Both are in town for the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s celebration of Charlton Heston, “Cinematic Atlas.” It runs Aug. 29-Sept.4; go here for a full schedule of the films in the series.

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Oregon Coprolites

University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis L. Jenkins and his students have found mummified human coprolites (ancient human feces) in the Paisley Caves of southern Oregon. Testing shows that the coprolites are from Asiatic peoples and are about 14,000 years old, which means that the first North Americans may have come to this continent 1,000 earlier than previously believed.

Slideshow of Oregon Coprolite Studies

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