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  • Charlie Sheen will return to television in Anger Management Thursday night on FX. Until last year, Sheen was the lead on CBS's Two and a Half Men, the most popular TV sitcom. His erratic behavior forced CBS to fire him. Critic Eric Deggans, of the Tampa Bay Times, asks will people want to watch more Charlie Sheen?
  • Plans are underway to open KitTea, a gourmet tea house in San Francisco, where patrons mingle with "resident" cats. The felines will come from rescue shelters and be up for adoption. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Courtney Hatt, the co-founder of KitTea, about starting a cat cafe.
  • IKEA is teaming with a 3D printing medical company — you go into your local IKEA, sit on a machine that takes a scan of your behind and turns that scan into a chair seat that fits your bottom.
  • A textbook has a photo of the king taken in 1945 sitting next to Yoda. The artist who superimposed the Star Wars character said he has no idea how his art accidentally showed up in a textbook.
  • In its fourth month, Haitian medical staff continue to strike over low pay and dwindling resources. Dr. John Carroll is an American doctor who volunteers in the region and explains how this has created a dire a situation for Haitians seeking medical care.
  • The federal district judge in Wichita was appointed by President John F. Kennedy and worked almost until the end.
  • The song first appeared as unidentified instrumental music between segments on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and during boarding on American Airlines planes.
  • In May, we marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's sonnets by asking NPR listeners and readers to write in with modern love poems or songs that they think will be remembered 400 years from now. Here are a few of those suggestions.
  • The host of RuPaul's Drag Race describes his drag look as "one-part Cher, two-parts David Bowie, one-part Diana Ross and two heaping spoonfuls of Dolly Parton."
  • Among the many issues in contention at the Syrian peace talks is the possibility of humanitarian relief for cities and villages under siege. No place is in greater need of assistance than the city of Homs in western Syria. One of the first regions to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad, Homs is now the site of an ongoing humanitarian aid crisis. Approximately two to three thousand people find themselves trapped in a disputed district and in increasingly desperate circumstances.
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