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More than 2 feet of snow hit the high plains this week, snarling travel and all but shutting down some cities. Despite those hassles, for farmers and ranchers, the snow brings some urgently needed moisture to their drought-stricken fields and pastures.

The State Department released its environment assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday. Melissa Block talks to Elizabeth Shogren.

The judge took issue with the legal theory the original jury used to reach its decision. The judge ordered a new trial to determine the damages.

When the village of Montserrat cut its school bus service to save money, some local moms hatched a plan to create an erotic calendar. The scantily clad women have earned enough in sales to rehire the school bus for the next three months.

The streets of Paris are marred by messes from dogs whose owners haven't cleaned up after them. There's a fine, but the culprits have to be caught in the act (or lack thereof). In this personal essay, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley goes after one thing about the city that she finds very, very wrong.

The unemployment rate among the nation's newest veterans is far higher than the rest of America, but even more worrying is their suicide rate. As the VA scrambles to keep up, veterans groups say there just isn't enough assistance to go around.

Egypt is trying to come to grips with a serious budget deficit in order to secure a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. This will likely mean both spending cuts and tax hikes on food items, water and electricity. The government is drawing the proposals up as many Egyptians are feeling the pinch of two years of economic turmoil and already-rising prices.

More questions for the panel: Working Hard at Hardly Working, Membership for Amateurs, A Hostile Comb-over, and Bouncing Baby Oog.

Actor Jeffrey Wright could watch Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now a million times. "It probably features the most effective narration of any film in the history of cinema," he says.

The World Economic Forum ended Saturday in Davos, Switzerland, and Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times gives weekends on All Things Considered host Robert Smith a debrief on the week's events and why predictions made there are so often wrong.