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London 2012: The Summer Olympics
3:38 pm
Thu July 5, 2012

At Last, Superheavyweight Finds Her Olympic Niche

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Holley Mangold successfully completes the 145 kilogram "clean and jerk" lift at the trials for the U.S. Olympic women's weightlifting team in March. Mangold came to weightlifting after trying her hand at several other sports.
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Holley Mangold played football for 12 years in her hometown of Kettering, Ohio — including with her high school varsity team.
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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 8:39 pm

Near the back of the North YMCA in Columbus, Ohio, several men and women line up on a row of beat-up platforms. They take turns practicing the two lifts that make up Olympic weightlifting; the "Snatch," and the "Clean and Jerk."

The goal? To hoist large amounts of weight from the floor into an overhead position.

Among the lifters here is 5-foot-8 inch, 350-pound Holley Mangold. She is the epitome of power, in appearance, attitude and athletic ability.

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New In Paperback
3:06 pm
Thu July 5, 2012

New In Paperback July 2-8

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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 6:19 pm

Fiction and nonfiction releases from Erin Morgenstern, Rachel DeWoskin, Dean Bakopoulos, Amit Majmudar and James Carroll.

Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

The Salt
2:48 pm
Thu July 5, 2012

Warning Against Eating Meat Has Chinese Olympians Off Their Game

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Chinese volleyball player Yunwen Ma during a game between China and Germany, at the Montreux Volley Masters women tournament, in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2011.
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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 10:00 pm

It's no longer Meat Week here on The Salt (we are deep into Pie Week, in case you haven't noticed). But that doesn't mean we can't flag a good meat story when we see one.

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World Cafe
2:28 pm
Thu July 5, 2012

Lucero On World Cafe

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Lucero.
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Lucero — bright star in Spanish — has been creating quality punk-inflected country since the late '90s. Hailing from Memphis, frontman Ben Nichols gives the act a gruff Southern twang with both his voice and his guitar. Since the release of 2001's eponymous debut, Lucero has recorded five more studio albums and plays an impressive 200 shows a year in the U.S. and Canada.

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Health
2:09 pm
Thu July 5, 2012

An AIDS-Ravaged Nation Turns To Circumcision

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Joseph Ochieng, 18, gets circumcised at the Siaya General Hospital in western Kenya.
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A health worker in western Kenya talks to young men about the benefits of male circumcision.
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Outreach workers are trying to persuade local fishermen to get circumcised.
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At Osindo Beach, local fishermen come in from fishing on Lake Victoria. Some fishermen are reluctant to get circumcised because they would miss three days of work.
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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 5:23 pm

The African nation of Kenya is attempting to get more than 1 million men between the ages of 15 and 49 circumcised by the end of 2013. If successful, this could be a groundbreaking effort in the fight to curb the spread of HIV.

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