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Followers Go Bananas Over Keisuke Yamada's Art

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

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Clinton To Offer U.S. Assistance To Libya

By Steve Inskeep • Oct 18, 2011

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Ex-Liberian Warlord Backs Johnson Sirleaf In Runoff

By Ofeibea Quist-Arcton • Oct 18, 2011

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EU To Decide Food Aid Program's Future

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

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Pipeline Safety Bill Passes, Merger Announced

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

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Israeli Freed In Exchange For Palestinian Prisoners

By Renee Montagne • Oct 18, 2011

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Held For 5 Years, Shalit Will Need Time To Adjust

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

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Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Gets Positive Voter Reaction

By Yuki Noguchi • Oct 18, 2011

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Critic Warns: 'Look' At 9-9-9 Proposal's 'Numbers'

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

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While Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax proposal has proven effective as a marketing device, it's also inspired criticism from across the political spectrum. Here's tax attorney and Republican candidate, Michele Bachmann, attacking the plan.

Tina Brown's Must Reads: The Republican Schism

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, tells us what she's been reading in a feature that Morning Edition likes to call "Word of Mouth."

This week, Brown says the media is taking a closer look at the gap between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party. "There's a kind of firebomb that's about to go off when the debt talks again resume," she says.

Republicans 'Playing With Fire'

Author Malin Alegria Builds On 'Estrella's' Star Power

By editor • Oct 18, 2011

Writer Malin Alegria's first novel, Estrella's Quinceanera, covers familiar territory for anyone who has ever been a 15-year-old girl battling with her mother — but the fact that the book's sassy protagonist, Estrella Alvarez, is Mexican-American makes her unique in the world of young adult fiction.

Centenarian Sets Marathon Record In Toronto

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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90-Year-Old Kansas Woman Fulfills Sorority Dream

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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Walmart's Top Man In China Steps Down

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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Obama Helps Dedicate Martin Luther King Memorial

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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Before leaving on that bus tour, the president helped to dedicate a new memorial in Washington. It's in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. NPR's Scott Horsley was there.

Indy Champ Wheldon Dies In Las Vegas Speedway Crash

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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The world of IndyCar racing has lost one of its stars. Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed yesterday during an IndyCar race in Las Vegas. Wheldon was trailing a pack of cars when he was unable to avoid a massive pile-up.

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Oh, here we go. (Unintelligible) a huge crash. Up at turn number two. Oh, multiple cars involved.

Americans Urged To Rethink Dietary Supplement Use

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe

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London Philharmonic Plays Music To Gamers' Ears

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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And our last word in business comes from the London Philharmonic.

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Egyptians Fear Arab Spring Progress Is Slipping Away

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

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Now let's consider Egypt, where a crackdown security forces on Coptic Christian protesters in recent days is a sobering reminder of the challenges that remain after the revolution there.

Pebble Mine Development Polarizes Alaska

By Daysha Eaton • Oct 17, 2011

In southwest Alaska, officials are counting votes on a controversial initiative to stop an open-pit copper and gold mine. If passed, the initiative could stop the developers from getting permits they need to start digging at Pebble Mine. The mine's location, near the spawning grounds for the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world, worries conservation groups, commercial fishermen and sport fishers. Daysha Eaton of member station KDLG reports.

Whitehead's 'Zone' Is No Average Zombie Apocalypse

By editor • Oct 17, 2011

If you ask Colson Whitehead to describe the man at the center of his new novel, Zone One, he'll tell you: "It's about a guy just trying to make it to the next day without being killed — so it's about New Yorkers."

But character Mark Spitz isn't just any New Yorker. He's one of the only human survivors of a mysterious plague that has swept the world, turning billions of people into zombies. New York is devastated and Spitz is charged with clearing the undead from lower Manhattan.

Touring In Scotland, Bob Dylan Buys Bagpipes

By editor • Oct 14, 2011

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Police Chase Down Toll Cheating Trucker

By editor • Oct 14, 2011

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The Dancing Is Hotter In 'Footloose' 2011

By Kenneth Turan • Oct 14, 2011

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Now, for many children of the 1980s, what we're going to talk about next is sacrilege: A new version of "Footloose" opens in theaters today, with no Kevin Bacon in sight.

'A Fisherman's Daughter' Returned To Rightful Owner

By editor • Oct 14, 2011

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A long lost painting is also fine. It's been returned to its rightful owners. The work is by a French artist, Jules Breton. It's a portrait of a young peasant woman in a white kerchief, leaning against a boulder on a rocky beach, mending a net.