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  • Txokos are bustling, food-centered social clubs, somewhere between dinner party and fraternal lodge. And Basques often point to txokos to explain their renowned cuisine and wealth of Michelin-starred restaurants like Arzak and Mugaritz.
  • The military wants to encourage more veterans to get treatment if they think they have PTSD. But that would add more cases to an already overburdened system.
  • The fighting was between supporters of the Bashar Assad regime and supporters of the uprising. Five were killed and more than 100 were wounded on Monday in Lebanon's second-largest city.
  • From your late 40s through early 60s, you're supposed to squirrel away cash to cope with health care costs in your old age. But for millions of Americans, middle age also is the time when children are seeking help with higher-education bills, and elderly parents may be needing assistance with daily care.
  • The mutilated bodies of 49 people turned up Sunday on a highway outside the city of Monterrey, which is about 75 miles from the Texas border. Authorities say they are victims of the Zetas crime syndicate.
  • The fact-checking organization PolitiFact looked into a claim made in a political ad. It said 85 percent of recent college graduates moved back in with their parents. That number is wrong. Kim Parker, the lead researcher for a Pew Research Center survey on the boomerang generation, talks to Steve Inskeep about what the real number is.
  • JP Morgan Chase has long had the reputation of being one of the better managed big banks in the country. So how did it make a $2 billion blunder? To find out, David Greene talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal.
  • In England, the town of Stevenage was created after World War II by the British government. Journalist Gary Younge talks to David Greene about his experience growing up in the planned community. Young has written an essay on Stevenage in the current issue of the literary magazine Granta.
  • Dropping gas prices helped hold inflation down. Meanwhile, April consumer spending may have been slowed because warm weather in March encouraged folks to get out their wallets then.
  • Set inside a wall-in garden, it's hoped the facility will draw tourists to Ichihara City.
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