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Melissa Block, Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish

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Business
3:41 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Dow Falls 243 Points On Worst Day In Months

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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 2:18 am

The stock market fell sharply Tuesday morning. Disappointing earnings from DuPont and 3M led the rest of the Dow lower.

Law
3:32 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Former CIA Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Info

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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 2:18 am

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

And I'm Audie Cornish.

A big development today in the Justice Department's crackdown on national security leaks. A former CIA agent pleaded guilty to revealing the name of a covert operative to a reporter. John Kiriakou agreed to spend two and a half years in prison.

NPR's Carrie Johnson was in the courtroom in Virginia for the plea hearing and joins us now to talk about the case. Welcome, Carrie.

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Presidential Race
3:30 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Obama Hits Battleground States In Final Blitz

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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 2:18 am

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

I'm Audie Cornish, and we begin this hour with a sprint. The 2012 presidential debates are now history and today, President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney begin the two-week race to Election Day. Mr. Obama is widely considered the winner of last night's foreign policy debate, but he didn't spend much time crowing today.

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Middle East
3:02 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Life And Death And Puppets In Syria

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This episode of Top Goon featured the Syrian president on the left, a member of the security forces on the right, and a photo of the former president, Hafez Assad, who is the father of the current leader.
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Syrians opposed to President Bashar Assad have been posting YouTube videos mocking him. The episodes are called Top Goon, and the Syrian president goes by the name Beeshu. The work is done anonymously because those behind it fear they could face retribution from the Syrian government.
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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 8:07 am

"I'm not crazy," the figure says, standing alone in a dark room, as if trying to convince himself.

"I'm not crazy?" almost a question this time.

"I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy!" he yells, finally making up his mind.

And, of course, he sounds crazy.

Meet Beeshu, an avatar of the embattled president of Syria, Bashar Assad, rendered in papier-mache and mounted on someone's finger. He's the star of the show Top Goon and the inspiration for its title.

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Asia
12:24 pm
Tue October 23, 2012

Cambodia Vs. Sotheby's In A Battle Over Antiquities

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The United States and Cambodia are locked in a legal battle with the auction house Sotheby's over this 1,000-year-old statue of the Hindu warrior Duryodhana that may have been looted from the Cambodian temple complex at Koh Ker.
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King Jayavarman IV built this pyramid-shaped monument at the center of his capital at Koh Ker in northern Cambodia in the 10th century. The ruler of the Khmer empire died two decades later, and the capital was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle.
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Archaeologist Phin Samnang, 29, surveys the ruins of Prasat Chen temple at Koh Ker. He says that unlike in earlier periods, Cambodia now has the means and duty to reclaim its priceless lost antiquities.
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Cambodian officials say a kneeling figure now in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art once sat on this pedestal. The statue was one of a group of nine depicting a scene from the Hindu epic the Mahabarata.
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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 2:18 am

The governments of Cambodia and the United States are locked in a legal battle with the auction house Sotheby's over a thousand-year-old statue. The two governments say the statue was looted from a temple of the ancient Khmer empire. Sotheby's says this can't be proved, and a court in New York will decide on the matter soon.

The case could affect how collectors and museums acquire artifacts, and how governments recover lost national treasures.

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Animals
11:44 am
Tue October 23, 2012

Baby Beluga, Swim So Wild And Sing For Me

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This image, from an archival video, shows the white whale NOC swimming around and under researchers' boats.
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NOC, seen here in an image from an archival video, was recorded in the 1980s making vocalizations that imitated human speech. The findings weren't published until this week.
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Originally published on Wed October 24, 2012 2:18 am

Whales are among the great communicators of the animal world. They produce all sorts of sounds: squeaks, whistles and even epic arias worthy of an opera house.

And one whale in particular has apparently done something that's never been documented before: He imitated human speech.

The beluga, or white whale, is smallish as whales go and very cute, if you're into marine mammals. Belugas are called the "canaries of the sea" because they're very vocal.

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Youth Radio
4:14 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

Teen Debaters Parse Candidates' Style And Substance

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Young debaters at the Bay Area Urban Debate League in Oakland, Calif., say that there are a lot of differences between the way that they debate the issues and what they see the presidential candidates doing on debate nights.
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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 4:25 pm

The high school debaters at the Bay Area Urban Debate League get together every week in downtown Oakland, Calif., to hone their arguments and debating styles. But the young debaters have had a chance during the recent presidential debates to see how it's done on the national stage.

They watch with pen and worksheet, taking notes and analyzing the candidates' debating styles, hoping to glean some lessons from the pros.

There is a lot for these young debaters to observe and compare, but they have also noticed some key differences.

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All Tech Considered
3:34 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

European Union Protests Google's New Privacy Policy

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In this photo illustration, the Google logo is seen through a pair of glasses in Glasgow, Scotland. The European Union says a change in Google's privacy policy is a breach of European privacy law.
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Originally published on Tue October 23, 2012 4:53 pm

Parisian dance professor Charlotte King says she needs Google for her job and life, but she doesn't trust the world's top Web search engine.

"When I'm doing some research, the day after I have some proposition of products, of stores, of places, and it's really espionage. I was spied on. I don't want that. It's unacceptable," King says.

That viewpoint resonates in Europe. The European Union says a recent change in Google's privacy policy that allows it to combine and share data collected from all of its different services is a breach of European privacy law.

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Around the Nation
3:06 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

For Many Florida Ex-Cons, Voting Booth Is Off-Limits

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Richard Flores, 47, had his civil rights restored at a clemency board hearing on June 28. Convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 1994, he served one year of house arrest. He had been waiting since then to have his right to vote restored.
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Timothy McLaughlin, who was convicted of trafficking cocaine, had to wait three years to apply to get his civil rights restored. "I think people with convictions should still be able to vote," he says. "I mean, once their sentence is completed, I think it shouldn't be so hard to get their rights back."
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Former felon Vikki Hankins has been fighting for civil rights for convicts for years. After applying to have her own civil rights restored in 2008, 2009 and 2011, Hankins was recently informed that she will not be eligible to apply again until 2017.
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Joseph Clark, 52, traveled from his hometown of Greenbrier, Ark., to Tallahassee this summer to have his civil rights restored after he was convicted of second-degree arson in 1988. After pleading his case, his rights were restored.
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Willie Black, 47, was released from jail this year after a 10-year sentence. He will have to wait five to seven years to have his civil rights restored in Florida.
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In the 1980s, Humberto Aguilar was the go-to-guy for large drug cartels to launder money. He spent six years in prison and is now hoping to have his civil rights restored. "Until you have your rights restored — your right to vote, and to go in and choose, the right to compete, the right to have an opinion in the political process — you're not a whole human being," he says.
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Reynaldo Diaz, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1968 from the Dominican Republic, had his rights restored at the clemency board hearing on June 28.
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Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, has been convicted seven times on charges ranging from drug possession to aggravated battery. He believes the right to vote is essential for everyone in the U.S. "How much liberty can I have if I don't vote?" he asks. "How much pursuit of happiness can I have if I can't have a say in what goes on in my community?"
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Ministers Anthony Davis (from left), Eddie Walker and James Major stand outside In Lord's Time Tabernacle Church in downtown Orlando. All three are convicted felons now working to get their civil rights restored.
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When the Rev. Dana Jackson's son was arrested five years ago, she began devoting her time to helping people find justice through God. Jackson now hosts a radio show that offers advice on how to navigate the legal system.
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Richard Flores, 47, received his civil rights at a Clemency Board hearing in June. Convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 1994, he served one year of house arrest. He's been waiting since then to have his right to vote restored.
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Eddie Walker, a pastor at In God's Time Tabernacle Church in Orlando, Fla., was once a crack addict. He says about 60 percent of his small congregation's members have lost their ability to vote.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott listens to testimony from felons attempting to restore their right to vote at a clemency hearing in Tallahassee, Fla., in June.
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By Andrea Rumbaugh, Michael Ciaglo and Marisa Penaloza

Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 5:44 pm

Across the nation, the number of people who have lost the right to vote because of a felony conviction has grown dramatically in the past three decades. Currently, almost 6 million people don't have that right — and about 1.5 million of them live in Florida.

While some states are making it easier for felons to get their voting rights back, Florida has taken the opposite approach — and the path for former convicts trying to get those rights back is often an arduous one.

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Law
2:15 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

What Happens After Jurors Get It Wrong?

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Juror Anita Woodruff is haunted by her decision to help convict Santae Tribble of murder.
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Santae Tribble is out of prison — a judge earlier this year threw out his conviction — but he's fighting for a finding of legal innocence. That would help him get compensation for the more than 25 years he spent behind bars.
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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 6:16 pm

About 300 people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in the U.S. thanks to DNA evidence. But overlooked in those stories are the accounts of jurors who unwittingly played a role in the injustice.

One of those stories is playing out in Washington, D.C., where two jurors who helped convict a teenager of murder in 1981 are now persuaded that they were wrong. They're dealing with their sense of responsibility by leading the fight to declare him legally innocent.

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Music Interviews
1:58 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

Kendra Morris: Skateboards And Karaoke Machines

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Kendra Morris' debut album is titled Banshee.
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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 4:25 pm

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The Two-Way
9:36 am
Mon October 22, 2012

Russell Means, Indian Activist And Actor, Dies

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Russell Means, left, talks to media in 1973 in the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 1:48 pm

Russell Means, who was best known for his movie roles and his unrelenting and oftentimes controversial protests in favor of Native Americans, died this morning at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D.

Means starred in a number of Hollywood films including the Last of the Mohicans. South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Charles Michael Ray filed this report for our Newscast unit:

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Presidential Race
3:43 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

Foreign Policy At Debate: Rhetoric Vs. Reality

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A container ship from China is offloaded at Massport's Conley Terminal in the port of Boston in July. Trade issues with China has been a major talking point for the presidential candidates.
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Stand-ins for President Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and moderator Bob Scheiffer rehearse a day ahead of the final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla, on Sunday.
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At the U.N. Sept. 27, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a graphic to show how far he says Iran will be by mid-2013 in a quest to develop nuclear weapons.
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A Palestinian man smokes a nargileh (waterpipe) next to a mural of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a coffee shop in the West Bank city of Jenin in September.
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Originally published on Sun October 28, 2012 7:44 am

President Obama and GOP presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney are getting ready to answer any and all possible questions about foreign policy for Monday night's debate, the last one before the Nov. 6 election.

Iran, Israeli-Palestinian talks and China are among likely topics for the debate — and also major issues awaiting the next president. Each case is a matter of building and maintaining alliances while applying pressure to protect U.S. interests.

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Art & Design
3:34 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

How A Texas Postman Became An Hermès Designer

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One of Kermit Oliver's designs for Hèrmes
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A self-portrait by Kermit Oliver
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One of Kermit Oliver's designs for Hèrmes.
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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 6:12 pm

About a year ago, writer Jason Sheeler was working on a story about Hermès scarves — the elaborately decorated silk squares that can cost as much as $400. He traveled to Lyon, in southern France, to visit the factory, and on his first day there he found an even more interesting story: A French woman threw out a big scarf with a turkey on it and asked Sheeler if he knew Kermit. He didn't.

Kermit, as it turns out, is Kermit Oliver. He lives in Waco, Texas, and he's the only American to ever design scarves for Hermès.

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Books
3:04 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

Three-Minute Fiction

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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 5:40 pm

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(SOUNDBITE OF CLOCK TICKING)

GUY RAZ, HOST:

Just two weeks until we announce the winner of Round Nine of our Three-Minute Fiction contest here on WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, that's where we ask you to come up with an original piece of fiction that can be read in about three minutes. In this round, we received nearly 4,000 stories.

Now, graduate students from a dozen schools, including from the University of Houston and Indiana University, have read through all of them. And now, our judge this round, Brad Meltzer, is making his decision.

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It's All Politics
2:47 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

Little-Known Florida School Hopes For Presidential Debate Bump

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The Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center is the site off the upcoming presidential debate at Lynn University. The small Florida college is awaiting its big moment in the spotlight on Monday.
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Members of the media tour the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center on Thursday in advance of Monday's presidential debate.
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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 5:40 pm

Whenever 19-year-old Robbie Walsh tells friends and family back home in Maryland that he goes to Lynn University, they do a double-take.

"They go, 'Lynn University? What?'" he says. "Then I have to tell them it's in Boca Raton, Florida, and a lot of them say, 'Oh, FAU,' or 'The University of Miami.'"

Many of Lynn's students and faculty who gather at the campus cafe say they hear that sort of thing all the time. But university spokesman Joshua Glanzer says a new T-shirt showing up on campus gives it right back.

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Author Interviews
2:27 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

A Reminder To Tolkien Fans Of Their First Love

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Corey Olsen is an English professor at Washington College in Maryland. He is also the president and founder of the Mythgard Institute, an online teaching center for the study of Tolkien and other works.
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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 5:40 pm

Seventy-five years ago, J.R.R Tolkien wrote a book for his children called The Hobbit. It isn't just a landmark piece of fantasy literature; it's a movement — a work that's inspired everyone from director Peter Jackson to the band Led Zeppelin to Leonard Nimoy (who recorded his own homage to the book in the late 1960s — "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins").

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Music Interviews
12:48 pm
Sun October 21, 2012

Stephen Hough's 'French Album,' A 'Musical Dessert Trolley'

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Stephen Hough's newest release is the French Album.
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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 5:40 pm

As with food, as with fashion, as with film, there does seem to be a distinct French style when it comes to composition. The much-heralded English pianist Stephen Hough has been studying what makes a piece of music uniquely French. It's resulted in his latest collection: the French Album.

With works by Debussy, Faure, Poulenc and a number of lesser-known composers, Hough says he considers this new album "a sort of musical dessert trolley."

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Africa
4:58 am
Sun October 21, 2012

Will The '24-Hour City' Of Cairo Call It A Night?

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Nighttime shoppers pause to look at a display at Cairo's Ataba market in May 2011. The government says shops must close earlier in order to save scarce electricity, but many Cairo residents are complaining.
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Originally published on Tue October 23, 2012 4:54 pm

When the sun goes down, Cairo bursts to life. Men play backgammon and smoke water pipes. Young fashionistas meet friends for midnight coffees. Families go shopping with small kids in tow.

Life in the Egyptian capital is lived at night. Last year, one study rated Cairo the "most 24-hour city" in the world. New York City trailed far behind at No. 32.

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From Our Listeners
3:00 pm
Sat October 20, 2012

Three-Minute Fiction: Check-In With The Judge

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Round 9 of Three-Minute Fiction is in full swing. Readers from all over the country have made their selections, and now judge Brad Meltzer is close to making his decision. Meltzer is best-selling author of The Tenth Justice and The Inner Circle. He tells host Guy Raz about his favorite stories in Three-Minute Fiction so far. You can read the stories at www.npr.org/threeminutefiction.

Asia
3:00 pm
Sat October 20, 2012

China Criticized In U.S. Debates, But Stays Close

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With the final presidential debate on Monday tackling foreign policy issues, surely China will be a familiar topic. It seems every four years, the U.S. relationship with China takes a beating during campaign events. Host Guy Raz speaks with James Fallows of The Atlantic about why candidates attack China yet presidents always balance their rhetoric.

Technology
3:00 pm
Sat October 20, 2012

French Tweet Sweep Shows Twitter's Local Struggles

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Originally published on Sat October 20, 2012 4:35 pm

Friday, Twitter agreed to pull racist tweets after a French organization threatened to sue. The company has resisted efforts to police its content. But hate speech is illegal in many European countries, and anti-hate groups there are grappling with how to deal with the challenge of social media.

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Music Interviews
3:00 pm
Sat October 20, 2012

Ben Gibbard: Living With Ghosts

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Ben Gibbard's first album as a solo artist is called Former Lives.
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Death Cab for Cutie is known for bittersweet love songs, stirring melodies and frontman Ben Gibbard's unmistakable voice, soft and sincere. After 15 years in the band, Gibbard is releasing his first solo album, Former Lives.

"Over the years, I've accrued a number of songs that I've always been very fond of but didn't fit tonally, lyrically, musically in with the palette of songs that were in front of us for a Death Cab for Cutie record," Gibbard tells NPR's Guy Raz.

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Monkey See
3:58 pm
Fri October 19, 2012

Home Video Review: Universal's 'Classic Monsters' Collection

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1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon is featured in the new release of Universal's classic monster movies.
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While many actors have bitten into the role of the famous fanged Count, Bela Lugosi's performance in Dracula is the stuff of cinematic legend.
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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 5:12 pm

Time now for a home viewing recommendation from film critic Bob Mondello. This week, Bob's getting ahead of the Halloween curve, with an 8-disk Classic Monsters collection from Universal Pictures.

The scene you know best is nowhere to be found in the novel Frankenstein. No electrifying the creature with lightning, no ecstatic doctor's cry of "It's alive, it's aliiiiiiive!"

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It's All Politics
3:58 pm
Fri October 19, 2012

Race For Arizona's Open Senate Seat Gets Personal

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Democrat Richard Carmona (left) and Republican Rep. Jeff Flake shake hands before Thursday's debate in Chandler, Ariz.
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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 5:12 pm

For the first time in nearly a generation, Arizona voters will elect a new senator. Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is retiring after 18 years. His ideological successor is Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, and a lot of people expected Flake to have an easy time of it.

But recent polls suggest Democrat Richard Carmona — a former surgeon general and a Hispanic — has a shot at winning. The race has become heated, and the airwaves are filled with brutal ads.

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National Security
3:58 pm
Fri October 19, 2012

Minnesota Case Re-Opens Wounds Among Somalis

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Burhan Hassan of Minnesota was recruited to fight in Somalia for al-Shabab, which the U.S. calls a terrorist group. He was killed there in 2009. This undated file photo released by his family in 2008.
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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 5:12 pm

For nearly three weeks, the benches at the back of a federal courtroom in Minneapolis were filled with local Somalis. The man on trial, Mahamud Said Omar, was accused of conspiring to help a terrorist group recruit some two dozen young Minnesota men to fight a holy war in Somalia.

It took a federal jury just eight hours to convict him of all of the five terrorism charges leveled against him, but the verdict is only the beginning for the Somali community in the Twin Cities.

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Planet Money
10:30 am
Fri October 19, 2012

Watch Our Fake Presidential Candidate's First Real Ad

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The fake candidate.
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Sports
6:00 pm
Thu October 18, 2012

NHL Season On Thin Ice With Labor Dispute

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Thursday in Toronto, the National Hockey League owners and the players union are meeting to try and get the season back on track. The first two weeks of the season were cancelled after the owners locked out the players over labor disputes. Melissa Block checks in with Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Sports' Puck Daddy blog about the current status of the negotiations and the chances of having a full season.

Around the Nation
3:23 pm
Thu October 18, 2012

To Shrink Rents, SF Considers Shrinking Apartments

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The development firm Panoramic Interests is building about two dozen "micro-apartments" in San Francisco. The company is poised to offer even smaller units if the city approves a proposed new minimum size of 220 square feet.
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Spaces must serve double duty in micro-units — like the dining table above that converts into a Murphy bed.
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Spaces must serve double duty in micro-units — like the dining table above that converts into a Murphy bed.
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By Stephanie Martin

Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 6:32 pm

In many large cities, like Dallas, Phoenix and even parts of Chicago, $800 a month is enough for a clean one-bedroom apartment, decked out with a living room, washer and dryer — and maybe even a pool, in a larger complex.

But if you want to live alone in San Francisco, getting those amenities at that price is practically a pipe dream. With the region's resurgent high-tech industries luring many well-educated, well-paid workers to the Bay Area, the average rent for a studio apartment in the city now runs around $2,000.

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Media
2:59 pm
Thu October 18, 2012

After 80 Years In Print, Newsweek Goes All Digital

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Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek, announced Thursday that the 80-year-old newsmagazine will publish its final print edition on Dec. 31 and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013.
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Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 6:00 pm

Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced Thursday she would embrace a fully digital future as she revealed that the magazine's final print edition would be published at the end of the year.

Her announcement was a bow to gravity, as her unique blend of buzz and brio proved incapable of counteracting Newsweek's plummeting circulation and advertising amid an accelerating news cycle. Brown said there would be an unspecified number of layoffs as well.

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