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Metro Employees Brace for Layoffs
Danielle Karson

April 25, 2007 - Metro officials say they'll help around 200 employees, expected to get pink slips, find new jobs.

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Panda Cub's Visit Extended
Danielle Karson

April 25, 2007 - Scientists at the National Zoo are gearing up for an extended visit by the facility's most admired celebrity--Tai Shon, the giant panda cub.

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Sustainable Design Expo
Sidsel Overgaard

April 25, 2007 - If you visit the National Mall today and peak under the towering white tent between Third and Fourth streets, you might see the future. Heres a hint: it features algae soap bubbles and desert pack-animals. Those are a few of the ingredients featured in the 41 projects created by college students for this year's National Sustainable Design Expo, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Gun Control, Part I
Jim Asendio

April 25, 2007 - The Virginia Tech shootings have focussed new attention on the role that gun control laws might play in preventing similar situations. Jeff Kamen reports......