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Opponents of same-sex marriage believe that if a Democrat-dominated Statehouse could vote in gay marriage, a Republican-dominated one may be able to vote it out. A bill to repeal the law has the backing of some top leaders in the GOP-controlled Legislature, but rescinding rights is never easy.

Since its creation during World War II, the Ad Council has launched one iconic public service announcement after the next — from the "Rosie the Riveter" campaign, which encouraged women to join the work force, to Smokey Bear's lessons about preventing wildfires.

Coats had fallen out of favor, but they're back — cozy yet chic as ever — on the New York runways. It's a shaky time for the fashion industry, and many designers have decided to "batten down the hatches and do the thing that they do best," says Sally Singer, editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Israel says Iran is behind a string of bombing attempts in three cities abroad. And it says Israelis are the targets. Details are still emerging from attacks this week in India, Georgia and Thailand. Steve Inskeep talks David Ignatious, a columnist for The Washington Post, to make sense of the evidence so far.

The U.S. and the European Union are announcing that they will soon treat each other's organic standards as equivalent. In other words, if it's organic here, it's also organic in Europe, and vice versa.

The Greece debt crisis has forced the country to look to the eurozone for a bailout. But Greece is looking less and less like part of Europe. In the capital Athens, they are still cleaning up from the weekend riots. Even in its tourist precincts, the area is shabby and covered with graffiti.

The frigid temperatures of Winnipeg, Canada, are legendary. So much so it's called Winterpeg. But this winter is one of the warmest in a century. Which has forced an annual festival that includes a snow-sculpting competition to truck in snow.

On a South African beach, the singer saw sea lions on rocks and in shallow water. As she later wrote on Facebook, "I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists." Then one of the sea lions moved within a foot of her, roared and tried to bite.

In defiance of international sanctions, Iran also announced it was halting oil exports to six European countries.

Step 1: Find a little company that's lost inside a big company. This is the second of two stories we're doing today on Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found.