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PROBLEM: (CNN) When a man snatched a wallet from a passerby's hand   Tess Aboughoushe  ran after him. When  she  caught him   she  invited him for coffee. Why? Because the Canadian woman felt it was the right thing to do.
It was February 14.  Aboughoushe  was heading back to work from the chiropractor in downtown Edmonton  Canada. The mugger had asked another woman for money and when she pulled out her wallet  he grabbed it and ran.
"I saw the man and the woman on the side of the road and as I was walking past  she calls out that her wallet has been stolen. 'Stop! Thief!' Legitimately  just like a movie scene "  Aboughoushe  told CNN. "He was running in front of me and I didn't really stop to consider personal safety issues."
 Aboughoushe  chased him down a couple of blocks  briefly lost sight of him and found him behind a dumpster in an alley.

SOLUTION: Tess Aboughoushe

PROBLEM: Better to avoid romaine lettuce for now  said  Jean Halloran   director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union  the nonprofit policy arm of Consumer Reports.
â(The CDC and FDA are) being very conservative and cautious about this  but for consumers itâs a very simple thing to do to buy another kind of leafy green until more is known about the risk â  Halloran  said.
Itâs unusual for Consumer Reports to issue a food warning when the CDC and FDA havenât issued a recall   Halloran  said. But given the size of the outbreak and the severity of the risk  which is worse for elderly people and children  the magazine felt it was the right decision   she  said.
âThis one really got our attention â  Halloran  said.

SOLUTION: Jean Halloran

PROBLEM: Two recent books look at the very human (sometimes all-too-human) process of trying to make sense of the known universe:  The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries  Phantoms and Fakes  by Malachy Tallack  and The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth  by Elizabeth Tasker .  They 're so stylistically and scientifically disparate as to seem unrelated  but reading  them  in close succession makes for something greater than the sum of its parts â a joint atlas of human guesses in a world that seems destined to confound us.
 Elizabeth Tasker  knows all about that; The Planet Factory is all about the formation of worlds humanity might never clap eyes on. And if you're hoping for definitive answers about how things work closer to home  think again;  Tasker 's very clear that the scientific method is as often about being proven wrong. "The problem (and there is always a problem)" isn't just an aside on a particular theory  but a thesis for the field. This is a book about trying to map unknown seas in real time; the ghosts of the sailors peering into the dawn looking for Thule live in every telescopic survey.
The Planet Factory can feel intimidating; certainly you must come to it wanting to know everything there is to know about making planets  and hang in there as long as you can before the variables overwhelm you. ( Tasker  offers easy analogies by the handful  and while at first they may seem too easy  you'll appreciate them by the time you're trying to understand the optimum timing of planetary migration.)
The Planet Factory Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker Hardcover  336 pages   purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?

SOLUTION:
Elizabeth Tasker