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Raul Castro's longtime confidante Jose Ramon Machado Ventura will be No. 2 in the leadership, and Vice President Ramiro Valdes is No. 3.

A warming climate and erosion are causing Arctic coasts to recede by an average of 1.5 feet per year, a new report says. Two-thirds of the Arctic coastline is made of permafrost, an environment that is very sensitive to an increase in temperatures.

Science writer Susan Freinkel chronicles the rise of plastic in consumer culture — and its effects on the environment and our health — in Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. Freinkel says plastics leach potentially harmful chemicals into our bloodstream — and that scientists are now figuring out what that does to our bodies.

In 1927 and '28, Ralph Peer, a talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine Company, set up recording sessions in a town straddling the Tennessee-Virginia border. The resulting sessions, rock critic Ed Ward says, laid the framework for all of country music.

A new test aims to identify 1-year-olds with autism — that's much younger than most kids are currently diagnosed. But it also flags many babies who don't have autism.

A samurai battle film in the classic style, it offers up only one real surprise: the discipline brought to the project by the notoriously erratic director Takeshi Miike.

It's been 15 years since "Barely Breathing," and Sheik hasn't really slowed down. Hear the songwriter and Broadway composer take the Kimmel Center stage in Philadelphia at for a live concert.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will collect cosmic rays and was designed to search for antimatter created during the Big Bang. The project was nearly scrapped, but the persistence of one key researcher kept it alive. It will be carried to the space station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's final flight.

Governors in both parties worry that high taxes on the wealthy may prompt them to move. But the evidence suggests otherwise.

"There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying," she says on this Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes. "I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever."