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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99521006 REBECCA ROBERTS, Host: An Amtrak train runs from Philadelphia, to Washington, to Union Station, right next door to the Capitol. Rhonda Hodge [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93473104 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Imagine strolling past a newsstand or glancing down at your coffee table, and that face on the cover of [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104779045 MICHEL MARTIN, host: I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, a story about our changing [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101151392 JOE PALCA, host: This is Talk of the Nation. I'm Joe Palca sitting in for Neal Conan. President Obama addresses a joint [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99473253 LIANE HANSEN, host: This month is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the word pheromone. Pheromones are chemical signals that animals [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99287134 FARAI CHIDEYA, host: And now, we are going to turn to Congresswoman Maxine Waters. She sits on the House Financial Services Committee, [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99220522 DAVID GREENE, host: From NPR News, this is Weekend Edition. I'm David Greene. Throughout this month, we're focusing on the extraordinary experiences [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99211626 REBECCA ROBERTS, host: Welcome back to All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Rebecca Roberts. It seems like new species are discovered [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99213301 (Soundbite of telephone ringing) Unidentified Woman: Good morning, Congressman Kratovil's office. REBECCA ROBERTS, host: Frank Kratovil had officially been the Democratic congressman [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99213293 REBECCA ROBERTS, host: Now we'll turn to Cambodia. The murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge ended 30 years ago, but the rule [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98990270 LIANE HANSEN, host: Time now for your letters. First, a correction from yesterday's show. Journalist Nat Hentoff mistakenly said that McClatchy's Washington [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98989948 LIANE HANSEN, host: From NPR News, this is Weekend Edition. I'm Liane Hansen. And joining us is puzzle master Will Shortz. Hi, [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98990252 LIANE HANSEN, host: To make sense of the worsening economy, it may help to look to the past. If you want to [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98772112 JACKI LYDEN, host: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is preparing for a milestone in the New Year, his 70th birthday. The Irish poet [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98766621 LIANE HANSEN, host. The way Americans eat has been influenced by some bold-faced culinary names, James Beard, Alice Waters, Julia Child. But [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98766594 LIANE HANSEN, host: One of the most popular comic strips popping up online is called 'Penny Arcade.' It's transformed its creators into [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98699832 JACKI LYDEN, host: Three films opening during the holidays are set at the height of the Second World War. Two of them [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98743950 JACKI LYDEN, Host: LYDEN: Detroit - the very name is a symbol of American might and American loss. Mr. VARNAS: Police. Anybody [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98759517 LYDEN: There's at least one person who's not too worried about surviving in this new economy, essayist, Jennifer Jordan. Ms. JENNIFER JORDAN [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98759514 JACKI LYDEN, Host: LYDEN: This has been a fascinating, if not worrisome year for our profession, journalism. There have been cutbacks just [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98578536 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Welcome back to All Things Considered. From NPR News, I am Andrea Seabrook. Today is the first day of [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98578519 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: SEABROOK: The economic crisis is a big focus of the new Obama administration, but other parts of the transition [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98572362 ALISON STEWART, host: On this shortest day of the year, the optimist in you might consider that tomorrow will be a bit [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98572347 ALISON STEWART, host: With the holiday season in full swing, you may be cooking for family or friends. If you shiver at [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98572338 ALISON STEWART, host: While holiday lights are lovely to look at, they are symbolic as well in some parts of the world. [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98248436 JACKI LYDEN, host: Essayist Will Layman is also engaged in a complicated relationship, and the object of his desire seems to abandon [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98248440 JACKI LYDEN, host: For our parting words today, we turn to a writer we haven't heard from in a while. He has [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98240436 LIANE HANSEN, host: This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Liane Hansen. Amid all the downsizing in the newspaper business, one [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98189772 LIANE HANSEN, host: This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Liane Hansen. HANSEN: You're going to show us around? Technical Sergeant [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98229849 JACKI LYDEN, host: Another financial calamity came to light this week, one that left investors with $50 billion worth of nothing. It's [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98229857 JACKI LYDEN, host: From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Jacki Lyden. The embattled governor of Illinois, Rob Blagojevich, met [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97547749 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: And now, the story of a super luminary of science, Edward Wilson, and the creature he's been studying for [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97621982 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Now, the story of a mayor who was a pretty creative problem solver. It's July of 1945. World War [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97365659 LIANE HANSEN, host: With the arrival of Thanksgiving this coming week, the holiday shopping season is expected to get into high gear. [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97356057 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: But let's move farther up that chart for our next story. Something pretty noteworthy is happening up at the [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97071786 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: And now, for some pet stories that may be slightly less prominent but no less adorable. For your homework, [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97071780 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Back stateside, with a new Congress and a new president come January, there's a whole new opportunity for comedy. [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97006623 (Soundbite of vintage recording) Mr. WOODY GUTHRIE (Folk Musician): Here's an old song here that they sang back down in that country, [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97066245 LIANE HANSEN, host: Nearly half a million veterans are in college this year. That number is expected to increase next year when [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95143166 LIANE HANSEN, host: The bailout package came together with speed because of the urgency of warnings by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95143139 LIANE HANSEN, host: From NPR News this is Weekend Edition. I'm Liane Hansen. Members of Congress negotiating a bailout package for the [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94868828 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: The stock market took investors on a wild ride last week, but, like a rollercoaster, the Dow Jones Industrial [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94603540 LIANE HANSEN, host: Politics paused but did not disappear as Ike came ashore on the Gulf Coast yesterday. Democrat Barack Obama canceled [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94596835 JACKI LYDEN, host: From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Jackie Lyden. Some stories have a shelf life of a [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94591154 SCOTT SIMON, host: Sandra Tsing Loh says that when she started out with a degree from Caltech about the soul of an [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94591157 SCOTT SIMON, host: This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Emergency and repair crews are starting to fan out [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94365281 LIANE HANSEN, host: Nariman Behravesh is chief economist at Global Insight, an economic research and consulting company. He's on the line to [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94152523 LIANE HANSEN, host: (Reading) 'Sarah Palin's childhood home faces Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains. In the spring, purple violets, Indian paintbrush and wild geraniums [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94143051 LIANE HANSEN, host: From NPR News, this is Weekend Edition. I'm Liane Hansen. And joining us is puzzle master Will Shortz. Hi, [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94143843 JACKI LYDEN, host: A month ago Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin said this on CNBC: Ms. SARAH PALIN (Governor, Alaska, Republican Vice Presidential [...]