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A Pianist Hears Chopin From Inside His Instrument

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Chad Lawson needed to find a way to record at home while his children slept. The result is The Chopin Variations, a set of Chopin works with an intimate, otherworldly sound.

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Snowden Reveal Makes Israeli Spies' Protest An American Issue

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Forty-three veterans of Unit 8200, Israel's secretive surveillance organization, say they were directed to spy indiscriminately on Palestinians. Were they using intelligence gathered by the NSA?

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In 'Transparent,' Transgender Issues Are A Family Affair

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Amazon Studios' Transparent features a slate of well-known actors playing a family dealing with the revelation that the person they'd known as Mort, their father, is a transgender woman.

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Which Catholics Offer Birth Control? Look To The Insurers

Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Affordable Care Act requires that most health plans offer birth control to women.

Around the country, Catholic employers have been arguing in court that having anything to do with insurance coverage of contraceptives violates their freedom of religion.

But when the insurance companies themselves are Catholic, contraceptive coverage comes ...

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'Passages' Author Reflects On Her Own Life Journey

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Gail Sheehy is famous for her in-depth profiles of influential people, as well as her 1976 book on common adult life crises. Now she turns her eye inward, in her new memoir Daring: My Passages.

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Jennifer Hudson 'Jenniferizes' New Album With Positive Energy

Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Oscar and Grammy Award-winning R&B singer says her new album, JHUD, has more energy than her previous ballad-heavy albums, and expresses more of her "everyday person."

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A Vulnerable Voice, Singing From Another Era

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Paolo Nutini follows in a musical tradition, but not the one you might expect from his name. It's a tradition that includes Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart, sometimes called "blue-eyed soul." The Scottish singer-songwriter says music has been an outlet for him since he was a ...

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Why Afghanistan's 'Underground Girls' Skirt Tradition To Live As Boys

Saturday, September 20, 2014

In many families of Afghanistan, the birth of a girl is mourned. While boys are seen as blessings, girls are considered burdens and forced to live a strict life of limited options. They can't leave the house alone; they're not educated; and they're dressed in clothes that conceal them and ...

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Debate: Should Schools Embrace The Common Core?

Friday, September 19, 2014

More than 40 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards, new national academic benchmarks in reading and math. But the Common Core has become the center of a highly contentious debate nationwide.

Proponents say the Common Core was designed to ensure that children, no matter where they go to ...

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Scientist IDs Bodies Of Migrants, Helping Families Find Closure

Friday, September 19, 2014

Lori Baker uses DNA samples to track down the loved ones of immigrants who died on their journeys. "I would love not to do this anymore, but I don't think I have it in me not to," she says.

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The Secret To This Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pork Is In The (Soy) Sauce

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Although it's a common Chinese dish, hongshao rou (red-braised pork) can be tricky to master. The key is to use two different types of soy sauce — light and dark.

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From Coffee To Chicory To Beer, 'Bitter' Flavor Can Be Addictive

Thursday, September 18, 2014

If you don't think you like bitter foods, try them again. Jennifer McLagan, the author of Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, is on a mission to change hearts and minds.

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The Insights Of An Ebola Doctor Who Became A Patient

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Dr. Kent Brantly, an American Ebola survivor, tells NPR what it was like to suffer from the deadly and "humiliating" disease.

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MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes: Poems Are Music, Language Our Instrument

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Hayes, a professor of writing at the University of Pittsburgh, was recognized for "reflecting on race, gender, and family in works that seamlessly encompass both the historical and the personal."

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The Rise And Fall Of The Fade-Out

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

A slow fade, rather than a hard stop, used to be the popular way to end a pop song. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Slate reporter William Weir about the fade-out's history and recent decline.

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Dr. Kent Brantly: Ebola Survivor Gives Testimony On The Hill

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Dr. Kent Brantly, a U.S. medical missionary who contracted Ebola in July while working as a doctor in Liberia and survived the deadly disease after treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, appeared at a joint Senate hearing today examining the Ebola outbreak.

In testimony prepared for ...

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Hiccups Were The Clue That Led Researchers To Ebola

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Journalist Jeffrey Stern traveled to Guinea to find out why it took so long for scientists to figure out that the Ebola virus had struck. He tells a revealing tale in this month's Vanity Fair.

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'Language Of Food' Reveals Mysteries Of Menu Words And Ketchup

Monday, September 15, 2014

Linguist Dan Jurafsky uncovers the fishy origins of ketchup and how it forces us to rethink global history. He also teaches us how to read a menu to figure out how much a restaurant may charge.

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Philip Morris Sues Uruguay Over Graphic Cigarette Packaging

Monday, September 15, 2014

The country requires photos of decaying teeth and gruesome hospital scenes on every pack. Philip Morris sees this as a violation of a trade agreement and is suing Uruguay for $25 million.

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Margaret Atwood, Tim & Eric, And Sergio Mendes's Big Break

Sunday, September 14, 2014

In this week's episode, Margaret Atwood discusses a new book of short stories, The Stone Mattress, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim talk about their new TV series, 'Bedtime Stories,' and Sergio Mendes recalls the song that changed his life, "Mas Que Nada."

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