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In 2010, a set fetched $11.5 million. At Friday's sale, it's expected that someone will bid even more. The four volumes were created between 1827 and 1838.

Since 1961, the TV quiz show It's Academic has given smart high-schoolers in the Washington, D.C. area a place to shine. The program is listed as the Guinness Book of World Records' longest-running TV quiz show. Host Mac McGarry stepped down in 2011 after five decades as quizmaster.

Yusef Reza Gilani defended himself against contempt charges. The fact that he showed up, said one justice, made it a "great day" for Pakistan.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race Thursday, saying he saw no way forward. The same day, the Iowa Republican party announced that Mitt Romney is no longer the winner of the caucuses there.

The 69 new laws limiting reproductive rights in 2011 were one short of the record set in 1999. And action is already heating up for 2012, with several states looking at "personhood" ballot amendments, which define life as beginning at fertilization.

NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that the division responsible for producing international films for Fox is stepping up its efforts to produce films that may not make much of a splash in the U.S., but make plenty of cash at home.

A big day in presidential politics: Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race. Certified results from the Iowa caucuses show former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finished ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but party officials are calling it a tie. And Newt Gingrich's second wife sat down with ABC News for an interview about their marriage and messy divorce. All this comes on the same day the four remaining candidates gather in Charleston, S.C. for a debate. Robert Siegel discusses it all with NPR's Mara Liasson in Charleston.

How embarrassing for Iowa GOP officials. How embarrassing for Iowa Republicans as a party. How embarrassing for Iowa. But who told the world to hold its breath earlier this month, awaiting the latest word on who had edged ahead in the Iowa caucuses? That would have been us. The news folks.

Have we lost the ability to survive on our own, without all the comforts of home? Author Rhoda Janzen puts her skills to the test when she's locked out of her house.

Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut adapts Shakespeare's Coriolanus, about a Roman general with his eye on political office. Critic David Edelstein says that in Fiennes' hands, the modern-day update makes for thrilling moviegoing.