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3-D models show that grooves had been worn down the center of the stones, suggesting that a technique known as parbuckling might have been used.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is an award-winning broadcaster from Ghana and is NPR's Africa Correspondent. She describes herself as a "jobbing journalist"—who's often on the hoof, reporting from somewhere.

Scott Simon is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

Toyota's 2013 Camry received a crash-test rating of "poor" from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. This is a big change from last year when the 2012 model received top marks from the group. This time the organization implemented a more stringent frontal crash test. Toyota's 2013 V was also scored as "poor."

Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, appeared in an 11-minute Internet video posted Wednesday, saying the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in "vengeance for the prophet."

Romney landed near the top of 11.5 million entries in ESPN's Tournament Challenge. He had a perfect Final Four — finally beating President Obama, who, by the way, had Kentucky winning it all.

The race between Sean Skipworth and Jennifer Lawrence ended in a tie. In accordance with Texas law, the winner would be decided by drawing a name from a top hat. Skipworth was the lucky winner.

Derek Kirk Kim's debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories has won the top three awards of the comic world. He talks with NPR's Jacki Lyden.

After a chart-topping and occasionally controversial music career, she s now turning out children s books publishing four in just over a year. The newest is The Adventures of Abdi. The others are The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples and Yakov and the Seven Thieves. Her fifth, Lotsa de Casha, is due out in April 2005.

The most famous of all the giant meat-eating predators that walked the Earth actually started out rather small, at least as dinosaurs go. A fossil dubbed the "crowned dragon" shows it was a 90-million-year climb to the top of the food chain for T. rex.