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The Record
1:00 pm
Fri April 13, 2012

Kraftwerk In New York: Decades Of Influence On Display

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Ralf Hutter (left) and the other members of Kraftwerk in performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Tuesday.
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Ralf Hutter (left) and the other members of Kraftwerk in performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Ralf Hutter onstage Tuesday.
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Imagine an era when mainstream music wasn't filled with synthesizers. When electronic music wasn't a force propelling everything from pop and hip-hop to music from the underground. There was a time when this world existed. Then Kraftwerk emerged, and the world we knew changed.

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The Two-Way
12:25 pm
Fri April 13, 2012

Cheney Expected At Wyoming GOP Convention Saturday

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Former Vice President and Lynne Cheney at home after his release from Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia, where he received the heart transplant.
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Three weeks after a heart transplant, former Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to make his first public appearance on Saturday at the Wyoming Republican Party's annual convention.

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It's All Politics
12:20 pm
Fri April 13, 2012

Beyond The Call Of Duty: A Short List Of Heroic Acts By Politicians

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Sen. Bill Frist (left) gives a mock smallpox vaccine during a training session in 2003. Frist, a surgeon, once gave CPR to a visitor who collapsed in a Senate office building.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he did what anyone would do in rescuing a neighbor Thursday night from a fire at her home.
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen here in 2007, once rescued a swimmer in distress.
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Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, seen in Dallas in 2008, once saved a choking colleague.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, seen at an election night rally in Denver with his son Josh on Feb. 7, once rode to the rescue on a Jet Ski.
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After rescuing his neighbor from a burning building, Newark Mayor Cory Booker joins an elite list of politicians who have performed heroic acts while in office. While it's inspiring anytime a stranger reaches out to help someone, it's not often that the person risking his or her life happens to be an elected official.

We've compiled a partial list of past heroic feats performed by pols.

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World
12:19 pm
Fri April 13, 2012

In Balancing Act, Turkey Hosts Iranian Nuclear Talks

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran, in March. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated over Iran's continued support of the Syrian regime.
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Iran's suspect nuclear program will again be in the spotlight this weekend when negotiators from Iran and six international powers meet in Istanbul.

Iran was reluctant to have Turkey host the meeting, reflecting Iran's growing unhappiness with Turkish foreign policy moves, especially its call for regime change in Syria, Iran's key ally in the Arab world.

Analyst and columnist Yavuz Baydar says Turkey has stuck its neck out for Iran in the past, defending what it calls Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program and even voting against U.N. sanctions on Iran two years ago.

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The Two-Way
12:05 pm
Fri April 13, 2012

Tornadoes, Severe Weather Likely Saturday Across Nation's Midsection

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The darker areas are being warned about what's coming. They're where tornadoes could occur on Saturday and into Sunday.
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Dangerously strong storms and tornadoes are possible Saturday and into Sunday from north central Texas up through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa and as far east as Wisconsin, the National Weather Services's Storm Prediction Center is warning.

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