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Question: Google's Goal: Inspire First Privately Funded Moon Landing

As 29 teams worldwide are compete in the Google Lunar X Prize, they're trying to build robots that could reach the moon by the end of 2015, roam around the moon's surface, and send photos and videos back to earth. Why is Google offering $30 million in prizes to winners, what rules must be followed, and have rivalries formed? Guest host Allison Keyes speaks with the X Prize Foundation's founder. ALLISON KEYES, host: I'm Allison Keyes and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Michel Martin is away.  Coming up, a new website showcases African-American perspectives on news, opinion and culture. More on HuffPost BlackVoices in a moment.  But, first, with NASA's shuttle Atlantis retired and bound for a museum, it might seem like space exploration is on the verge of being grounded. But much of it is just moving out of the hands of the government. Dozens of private companies around the world are plotting a new course to pick up for where NASA left off an unmanned space flight.  The X Prize Foundation is running a competition right now to see which of 29 firms can accomplish the first privately funded robotic landing on the moon. And there's $30 million in prize money from Google at stake. To talk more about this new space race, we're joined by Peter Diamandis. He's the founder and CEO of the X Prize Foundation. Thanks for joining us.  PETER DIAMANDIS: My pleasure, Allison.  KEYES: So tell us a bit about what these 29 teams have to do. They've got to build a spacecraft, get to the moon, land on it and then what?  DIAMANDIS: Yeah. That's all they have to do. And, you know, I would say that the era of space exploration is really just beginning because we're putting into the hands of individual small companies, universities, the ability to literally go and do something that only two countries have ever done before. You know, the United States and the Soviet Union are the only two that have landed on the surface of the moon.  And so for $30 million, what's up at stake is building a private lunar lander landing, sending back photos and basically YouTube videos. And then going exploring a half a kilometer, 500 meters and then sending back more photos and videos. It's really enabling a new generation of personal exploration in space.  KEYES: And there's some bonuses for people that - whose lander can survive the lunar night and the extreme conditions there. What are some of the others?  DIAMANDIS: So, we've said, listen, if you land and send back the photos, fantastic. If you are able to survive through lunar night where you really have the temperatures plummeting as the sunlight disappears and the moon goes into permanent shadows for 14 days. Or my favorite, if you're able to actually image, send back photographs of Apollo hardware. So if you're able to get close enough to take photos and, you know, dispel all those myths about not having gone to the moon, then you win more prize money.  KEYES: Ever since I saw the movie, you know, "2001," I've been wanting to go into space and ride on that lovely little rocket with the cute women and the, you know, walking around in the circles.  (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)  KEYES: How close are we to that kind of scenario?  DIAMANDIS: So, one of my company's space adventures, we have three seats available over the next three years for someone who wants to go to the International Space Station for 10 days. And that's an incredible ride. But even better than that, we've signed an agreement with the Russian space agency for a circumlunar flight. For - on the order of $110 million or so, you can go to the space station for 10 days and then we'll boost you around the backside of the moon and come back. You've got a Russian cosmonaut as your pilot. You and one of your friends, it's the ride of a lifetime.  KEYES: See, we'll take some champagne, I'll go get my credit card, but in the meantime, if you're just joining us, you're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. We're speaking with Peter Diamantis about the Google Lunar X Prize, a modern day race to the moon that hopes to bring about the first privately backed moon landing.  And tell me, why is Google willing to put out such big money for this? And what kind of role is NASA playing?  DIAMANDIS: Google's mission here is to really inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers. Larry Page, who's now the CEO of Google is on my board at X Prize. Sergey Brin, who's been, you know, the co-founder, huge advocate of space. I had presented the idea to them of a lunar X Prize, you know. That it's now possible. And they on the spot said, yes, let's do it. We ended up launching that now, about three-and-a-half years ago.  KEYES: So, once we get to the future and we've got Robert Heinlein's Luna City and billboards on the moon and everything, what kind of rules are there governing what companies can and can't do? I mean, who owns the property rights? Who owns the mining rights? Can you just land there and start building an apartment building?  DIAMAND

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Question: Did Education Report Just Confirm the Obvious?

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Did 30 researchers spend nearly two years and $3 million to find out what we already know? Host Kathryn Baron put that question to State Senator Joe Simitian, a member of the senate education committee, and to Stanford Professor Susanna Loeb, who coordinated all the research through the University's Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice.

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The Rosetta probe, a mission of the European Space Agency, has completed its 12-year mission after a planned slow-motion crash into Comet 67P, the object it has been studying. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about the data the ESA — and the world — has gained from the project. Guest Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR science desk reporter. She tweets @nell_sci_NPR.

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Later this hour PT's Young Artist in Residence, violinist Scott Yoo, will be talking to violist and PT commentator Miles Hoffman about the differences and similarities between their two instruments. But first, a movement from a piece written by early 18th-century composer Giuseppe Sammartini (joo-SEP-pee sah-mahr-TEE-nee) expressly for a transitional instrument, the violoncello-piccolo (the "little cello"). Camerata Koeln, conducted by Michael Schneider, performs the allegro movement from the Concerto in C major for violoncello-piccolo. (DHM 05472 77323 2)

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Question: Does Accepting A Rose Mean Losing A Career?

Maybe the production team for The Bachelor and The Bachelorette has a newly acquired taste for high Cs and Wagnerian levels of personality conflict, but this reality-show franchise has suddenly made a habit of casting aspiring opera singers. The newest edition of The Bachelorette premieres Monday night, with tenor Bradley Wisk included among the initial 25 contestants vying for a rose from "bachelorette" Andi Dorfman. On Wisk's website, the 32-year-old singer says that he was a student of Giorgio Tozzi at Indiana University and then received his master's degree at Manhattan School of Music. But over the past few years, he's been shopping himself around as more of a aspiring "popera" performer, complete with backup dancers. If you're curious to hear Wisk in action in pure classical mode, we've dug up a video of him singing the ever-popular "Che gelida manina" aria from Puccini's La Bohème. Maybe Wisk's turn on The Bachelorette — regardless of how many roses he accepts along the way — will provide just the kind of media exposure that he seems to be seeking for his own, not-so-highbrow career. But he might also want to heed the words of Sharleen Joynt, the young soprano who recently, and famously, decided to leave The Bachelor of her own accord partway through taping. Joynt is no Miss America talent-competition-level dilettante, and, unlike Wisk, she's a hardcore opera singer. This past season, she's been covering Strauss' Arabella at the Met. Her teacher in New York, Ruth Falcon, has also taught heavy hitters like Deborah Voigt, Sondra Radvanovsky and Danielle de Niese. A shakily recorded video of Joynt singing "Grossmächtige Prinzessin" from Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos in Heidelberg, Germany, is just stunning. In retrospect, though, it seems like Joynt may have made a serious career misstep by appearing on an immensely popular reality TV show. In separate interviews, Joynt has told a couple of our classical media friends that she thinks appearing on The Bachelor has held her back professionally. "I wouldn't say this has helped my career," she told Anne Midgette over at The Washington Post. "I was recently refused an audition in the States. I haven't been refused for an audition in like three years. ... I can't see it not being show-related. Evidently, the casting director said I was too junior-league for them." On WQXR's Conducting Business podcast, the clearly talented Joynt told our WQXR colleague Naomi Lewin, "I think that the opera world is very wary of me at the moment." (Additional note: This may be the first — nay, only — time that Us Magazine picks up a lead from WQXR.) "Everything I have done in my life, more or less, has been for this career [in opera]," Joynt told Lewin. "And so to suddenly maybe to be taken less seriously because I spent two months filming a reality show — it's a little heartbreaking, in a way." Joynt says she thought she was doing a good job of splitting the two by not mentioning the show on her own, completely opera-geared website. (I say: Google knows no bounds.) Maybe what Wisk is grasping at in his career is so different from what Joynt wants that there won't be any blowback the way there might have been for her. But it's worth asking: Was there some level of snobbery at play here? Was The Bachelor just too popular a media vehicle for the opera world to abide? There's probably no clear-cut answer to these questions, but they're worth asking during an era in which struggling opera companies across the U.S. each try their hardest to be the most beautiful belle at the ball.

Carl reads three quotes from the week's news: Is This Pledge a Lemon; Out With the Old, In With the Old; and Time Is on Their Side.


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Question: Hozier On World Cafe

Hozier is an artist who can create musical moments big enough to galvanize every molecule of air around them into action and tiny enough that they can burrow themselves in the hidden corners of your own heart. His ability to do both on the same album — and sometimes, even on the same song — is what makes him so special. Your first introduction to Hozier was likely on the massive musical side of things. "Take Me to Church" came out in 2013 and was featured on his self-titled debut album the following year, launching him into absolute international superstardom. His latest EP, called Nina Cried Power, opens with a similarly rousing song that pays tribute to artists who have raised their voices in protest over time like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, Curtis Mayfield, and Mavis Staples, who is featured on the song. But by the last track of his EP, Hozier zooms in on a tiny bird of prey, a Shrike, and uses it as a surprising and powerful metaphor for love. We'll talk about both those songs today and hear performances Hozier recorded for us in front of a live audience. Hear it all in the audio player.

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Question: Pope Francis To Hold Historic Double Canonization

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This Sunday, Pope Francis will elevate two former popes to sainthood: Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. While Pope John XXIII is remembered as an icon of the progressive wing of the Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II is remembered for upholding orthodoxy and doctrine. Millions of pilgrims are expected to descend upon Rome for the joint canonization, which occurs just one week after the ceremonies of Holy Week. NPR’s Senior European Correspondent Sylvia Poggioli joins Here & Now’s Robin Young from Rome to discuss this weekend’s canonization and the disparate legacies of these two popes. Guest

Sylvia Poggioli, senior European correspondent for NPR. She tweets @spoggioli1.
 ROBIN YOUNG, HOST:  It's HERE AND NOW. The world's one billion Catholics will be watching as Pope Francis canonizes two previous popes this Sunday, the first time two popes will be declared saints in the same ceremony, and an historic event for other reasons. John Paul II, who was pope just before the previous Pope Benedict VXI, will hold the record for the fastest saint to be canonized in history. And some Catholics are questioning whether he should become a saint at all, for failing to take action in the priest sex abuse scandal. Then there's John XXIII, who opened up the church to the modern world in the '60s with Vatican II. He's being elevated to sainthood with evidence of only one miracle, instead of two. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli is with us from Rome. Welcome. SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: Thank you, it's good to be with you. YOUNG: And we should say both of these popes, despite some questions, are beloved. Start with John Paul II. He was credited with helping to end communism and reinvigorating the church with global outreach, especially to the youth. When he died, we heard those cries of santo subito, make him a saint immediately. Remind us why he is so loved. POGGIOLI: Well, you know, first of all John Paul II took the papacy out of Rome. He became a globetrotter. He traveled to every corner of the world. He was the first superstar pope. He had a background as an actor in his youth, so he really knew how to command the stage globally. He understood very well how to use mass media to the benefit of the Catholic Church. He was basically one of the key figures of the end of the Cold War. He was shot and almost killed by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter's Square, and then John Paul made a dramatic gesture and went to Ali Agca's jail cell in Rome and pardoned his would-be killer. Of course John Paul is credited with helping bringing down communism first in Poland, then the rest of Eastern Europe and later in the Soviet Union. In some sense he became a spokesman for human rights, denouncing repression in many countries, and he was the first pope to call leaders of all religions to pray together in Assisi. He was the first pope to visit a synagogue, the first pope to visit a mosque. And much to the dismay of many in the church, he issued an unprecedented apology for the sins of the church against Jews, against Christian. He's also seen, however, as the pope who put an end to discussion and imposed a very tough discipline on many issues that had been opened up by the Second Vatican Council, for example on sexual ethics, on liberation theology and married priests. So it's a mixed bag. YOUNG: Well Barbara Blain(ph) of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the group SNAP, she told the Boston Globe that they think it's sinful for the pope to be made a saint so soon because of the sex abuse scandal. So does the church respond to comments like that? POGGIOLI: Well, there have been many critics of the canonization of John Paul, as you said about the speed and also for his record on those issues. His defenders say that aides may have kept the information from him. Others believe that John Paul may have believed the charges were a plot and a slander against the church similar to those by communist authorities in Poland, and that may be the reason he simply did not attribute the necessary attention to the sex abuse scandals. YOUNG: Well, that debate will continue even after this weekend's ceremonies. Let's move to Pope John XXIII. He served from 1958 the '63, an icon of the progressive wing of the church. He launched the reforming Second Vatican Council, opening the church to the modern world. But in this case, Pope Francis waived the required second miracle for his canonization. Some are saying that this is sort of an olive branch that Pope Francis is holding out to progressive. Remind us more of what John XXIII means to those progressives. POGGIOLI: Well John XXIII, who is known here in Italy as the Good Pope John, really is a 20th-century giant of the Catholic Church. Here in Italy, it is still very common to see in certain places, you know, in cafes, in bars, there's often a photograph of John XXIII. He really is very dear in the memory of the city. He was not necessarily a liberal in the modern sense, but he was certain

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Question: This Doc's Miracle Drug? Exercise

Sports medicine doctor Jordan Metzl says he's found a miracle drug that prevents almost every illness, is 100 percent effective, and has very few side effects: exercise. In his new book The Exercise Cure, he prescribes specific cardio and strength training regimens to treat everything from depression and stress to heart disease and diabetes.

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Question: Governor Napolitano on Here and Now

Governor Napolitano joined Steve Goldstein on KJZZ's Here and Now.  As part of her usual monthly visit, she talked about issues facing the state, campaign politics and answered listener comments and questions as well.

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Question: Bin Laden's Sudan Link

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Khartoum that though the government of Sudan denies that the Islamic radical Osama bin Laden had anything to do with the pharmaceutical factory destroyed by US cruise missiles, the Saudi dissident has long personal and economic ties to the Sudan. He lived in Sudan after being forced into exile by Saudi Arabia and has used his family fortune in a network of investments in the country.

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Question: Need A Nurse? You May Have To Wait

Nurses are the backbone of the hospital — just ask pretty much any doctor or patient. But a new poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds 34 percent of patients hospitalized for at least one night in the past year said "nurses weren't available when needed or didn't respond quickly to requests for help." Since nurses provide most of the patient care in hospitals, we were surprised at the findings. We wanted to find out more. We wanted to know what was going on from nurses themselves. So we put a call-out on Facebook. We received hundreds of responses and read them all: piles of stories about nurses feeling overworked, getting no breaks, no lunches and barely enough time to go to the bathroom. Even worse, many nurses say breaks and lunchtimes are figured into their salaries and deducted, whether they take them or not. Continue Reading When we asked nurses who responded to our call-out if we could interview them for broadcast, most said no. They worried about their employers' reaction. Many would be interviewed only anonymously. "We're always afraid that something will happen to our patients during the time we're off the floor," one nurse says, "and I personally don't feel comfortable leaving them unless I know that a co-worker is actually looking after them during the time that I'm off the floor." This nurse says she rarely stops. Not for 12 hours. She's an emergency room nurse in a busy urban hospital. The ideal, she says, would be one nurse for every three patients in her ER. But she typically cares for five patients or more — often eight, if she's covering for a colleague taking a lunch break. She says there are times when she can't leave patients' bedsides. "Maybe I was injecting medication that you have to push slowly over five to 10 minutes so it doesn't harm them," she says, "and I can see the call bell going off in the hallway, and there's no way I could respond to that." The only option is to literally yell down the hallway and hope another nurse hears her and responds to the patient call bell. There have been times when she has driven home at the end of her 12-hour shift, white-knuckling the steering wheel and wondering whether she "missed something." Another nurse likens her job to "spinning plates," just "praying," she says, that one doesn't fall. "And these are human beings," she says, "not products on conveyor belts." Stories like this suggest there's a shortage of nurses. But Linda Aiken, a researcher and professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, says that's not the case. There was a shortage about a decade ago, she says. Today, that has changed. The number of RNs graduating has increased dramatically over the past decade, but many can't find jobs. "There's not an actual nursing shortage," Aiken says. "There's a shortage of nursing care in hospitals and other health care facilities." Nancy Foster, a vice president with the American Hospital Association, says hospitals are facing big financial challenges. "In part, it's because our patients are sicker — coming to us with more intense diseases and disorders than they did 25 years ago," she says. "In part, it's because there's so many more medications and devices and other interventions at our fingertips; we can help many more patients and restore them to health." That is terrific, of course, but it's not cheap. Any reduction in nurse staffing at a time of increasing patient demand jeopardizes patient care, Aiken says. "Nurses are the surveillance system in hospitals for early detection and intervention [to save patients' lives]," she says. According to one nurse, little clues from patients are critical. "I mean, you might walk into a room, and they are breathing and answering your questions," the nurse says, "but if you look at their neck and the jugular vein is slightly distended ... taking the time to pick up on the small details like that are the early warning signs that somebody is getting sicker fast." In our poll, 51 percent of those who were hospitalized overnight in the past year said they were "very" satisfied with their care. An additional 32 percent said they were "somewhat satisfied" — some things could have been better. Only 16 percent said they were dissatisfied. It's not all bad news, but with a rapidly aging population, the fear is that the nursing staff will be stretched even more thinly. Plus, while our call-out to nurses on Facebook was not scientific, the NPR/RWJ/Harvard poll is, and it does point to significant problems when it comes to the availability of nurses at the hospital bedside. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:  This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Nurses are the backbone of hospitals; pretty much any patient or doctor will tell you that. Still, a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that one-third of hospitalized patients say nurses weren

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Question: Presidential Candidates 2008

Forum looks ahead to the 2008 presidential race and assesses the aspiring candidates.

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Question: Steven Waldman Tackles Religion, Politics And Palin

Beliefnet co-founder Steven Waldman has a few thoughts about Bill Maher's new film Religulous, a satirical (and highly critical) look at world religion. "Funnier than I was expecting, and more challenging" is one part of his verdict — alongside "highly offensive" and "quite slippery, in its own way." Waldman talks with Fresh Air about what the film leaves out in its critique of faith, and about the way religion is figuring in this political season, not least in the candidacy of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Waldman says that among other things, Palin's much-publicized comments about "God's plan" for the Iraq war shouldn't alarm religious moderates, or even nonbelievers.  "It doesn't bother me if someone's trying to figure out what is the right thing to do according to God's plan," Waldman says. "The mere fact of someone trying to craft a policy that they think is in sync with what they think their religion or their God would want is fine. That's absolutely what Martin Luther King Jr. did ... It's what George Washington did." More problematic, Waldman tells Fresh Air host Terry Gross, were Palin's comments about God's will and the construction of an Alaska natural gas pipeline.   "That's exactly the kind of religion and politics-mixing that the founding fathers were terrified of — and with good cause," Waldman says. "The slippery slope is when politicians claim to know what God's plan is, and try to figure out the policy in order to match it up to God's plan."  As for how Palin felt about that Kenyan minister who prayed that, among other things, God would keep her safe from witches?  "I've got about 75 questions I'd like to ask Sarah Palin about her religion," Waldman laughs. "That's not even in the Top 10." Other topics in Waldman's wide-ranging conversation with Terry Gross: The role of Joe Biden's Catholic faith in the fall campaign, and the movement of thousands of evangelical Hispanic voters — away from, not toward, the Republican party. Waldman is founder and editor in chief of Beliefnet, and former national editor at U.S. News & World Report. He's the author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America, a book about the myths and mistaken beliefs surrounding the founding of the United States.

From gobbling down nightmarish deep-fried whatevers at state fairs to sucking up to donors, the life of a national politician is full of humbling experiences. But few components of the modern political routine were stranger, more incongruous, or more embarrassing than the Political MySpace Page. With MySpace on the decline, we are likely seeing the last of these wince-inducing attempts to combine MySpace's high-schooly vibe and assaultive, more-is-more visual aesthetic with the ostensible dignity of elected office. Click through to experience the squirm-inducing weirdness that is the Political MySpace Page. Today at TNR (August 18, 2009) Creationism For Liberals: Is Religion The Most Important Source Of Morality? by Jerry A. Coyne Allowing People To Keep Their Existing Health Care Plan Is Good Politics--But Bad Policy, by Jonathan Cohn How Big Of An Impediment Will Doctors Be To Reform? by Harold Pollack The Long, Dirty History Of Power Plants That Just Won't Die, by Bradford Plumer Meet Tim Geithner's Wall St. Consigliere: Should Lee Sachs's Influence Make Us Queasy? by Noam Scheiber


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Question: Dave Douglas: 'A Call To Arts'

Dave Douglas is one of today's most celebrated jazz trumpeters, composers and, well, bloggers. And from time to time, he's also sharing some of his thoughts about music and technology with us. We're calling it Jazz In The Digital Age. We last heard from Dave when the Tiny Desk Concert of his newest band, Brass Ecstasy, was featured on YouTube's Music Tuesday series and racked up 92,000+ views in a matter of days. Win. Lately, he's been thinking about the good things that are happening in arts philanthropy these days. --Ed. ----- A Call To Arts It's good to see arts and especially jazz philanthropy back in business, thinking about what to fund and how best to fund it and not so much about how to punishing artists who use government money to smear their bodies in chocolate or worrying about just how in particular they plan to use that crucifix. There's a new director at the National Endowment for the Arts named Rocco Landesman who is more interested in putting on shows; The Doris Duke Foundation and Mary Flagler Cary are out with innovative initiatives; and the alphabets -- MTC, CMA, AMC, NYFA, NYSCA -- are all looking at ways of giving jazz and related music a place at the table. All I can say is, Thank You. Finally. At long last, we can sit down and have a decent fight over real pieces of the pie. Read More >> Helping artists and communities is more important than cracking down on profanity. I was reminded of this the other day when my drummer Nasheet Waits was sent to overweight/oversize baggage for the third time even though his cymbals are no bigger than most bags (smaller than many!) and weighs easily within the range of your average over-packed summer traveler. (I mean their bags.) The cymbals just look different. Nasheet displayed admirable poise, while I was about to explode with the kind of filth that would make Rahm Emanuel blush. It was probably just a better idea to get the cymbals on their way down through the baggage mill. Arts are important to people's lives. Vincent Chancey grew up in a foster home, and when his public school gave him a chance to play music he chose the weirdest looking instrument he could find. A French horn man was born, even though there's nothing French about that horn, and even Congress wanted to change the name to Freedom Horn a few years back. But with just that smallest push, Vincent developed an idiosyncratic personal style on the horn that led to a career with Sun Ra, Lester Bowie and Diana Krall among many others. Now if we could just get him to put the thing down. Vincent's son Bahij is headed to Yale in the fall, on a scholarship to study architecture. In 1990 I wasn't sure where I fit into a scene polarized by young lions, hardcore downtown avant-garde and a livelihood playing weddings, bar mitzvahs, jingles and brisses. That was the year I received an individual artist grant for composition from the National Endowment for the Arts (funding of individual artists was discontinued in 1996). It meant a lot, even if only that there was a societal value to the creative work that I really wanted to do. My musically inclined but somewhat conservative father was scandalized. ("My tax dollars are going to What?!?!") Are the arts controversy-free? Clearly my father didn't think so. No, the arts aren't all clean, but neither is life itself. Now there's the Internet, keeping kids aware of all that's going on around them in the world if you can get them to look away from the screen for more than a few seconds. If these initiatives have their way, when they do look away they will see arts in addition to schoolwork. It's not safe looking at a computer screen all day, or perhaps being an artist, but there are other dangers out there, like swine flu, sexting, contaminated vegetables, Octomoms, municipal rackets marketing human kidneys, not to mention Town Hall meetings. A little controversial artwork is the least of our worries. Just this summer Terence Blanchard was enlisted to open the Ottawa Jazz Festival on a moment's notice when additional funding magically appeared. It was touching that a festival in Canada's capital city turned to such an expressive American artist, whose current work very personally reflects the tragedy of post-Katrina New Orleans. For most of July I was in Europe, where support for the arts and culture is as natural as espresso after a meal. In Perugia, McCoy Tyner's trio invited Bill Frisell and Gary Bartz to join. In Rotterdam John Zorn was in residence for five days, just across the hall from B. B. King. Han Bennink had his first gig there as a leader. In the sunny south of France, on the island of Porquerolles, we missed Dave Liebman by a day, Archie Shepp by two days, and Randy Weston by three. At the Jazz in Marciac festival we were on a triple bill with Daniel Humair and David Krakauer. Maybe it's too much to ask that we could have this in the States. But maybe just a little bit? One of my heroes, Lester Bowie, died in 1999. I never knew him but

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Question: The Self-Annihilation Of N.Y. Gov. Candidate Carl Paladino

I've said this before, but for all the problems revolving around New York Gov. David Paterson and his decision to bow out of the race, one thing remains clear:  Democrats are nonetheless the clear favorites to retain the governorship.  He hasn't announced his candidacy yet, nor has he even shared his vision for the Empire State, but let's face it, Andrew Cuomo, the state attorney general, is going to win in November. That hasn't kept the Republicans from engaging in an all-out battle for their own nomination.  For the longest time, the sole GOP candidate was former Rep. Rick Lazio, already anointed by the Conservative Party.  Then, last month, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a conservative Democrat, switched parties so he could run, and was promptly backed by Republican leaders, including state chair Ed Cox.  And then there's Carl Paladino.  The wealthy Buffalo developer, who supports gun rights and opposes abortion and the recently-passed health care bill, has pledged to spend $10 million of his own money on his campaign, hinting that if he doesn't win the GOP nomination he will form an independent/Tea Party vehicle for getting on the ballot in the fall.  His "Paladino For the People" Web site is filled with references to Howard Beale's memorable rant from the 1976 movie "Network":  "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." But to what end?  Even before the latest controversy -- and I'll get to that in a minute -- there have been things in his past that he'd rather not be reminded of, including his support for Democratic candidates, such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, before he became a Republican.  But for some, it's much more than that:  the style, the bombast, the politically incorrect persona that he thrives on.  The New York Daily News' Bill Hammond completely dismisses Paladino, saying that if he "wants New Yorkers to take him seriously as a candidate for governor, he should stop acting like such a clown":  All the money in the world won't buy him back his credibility if he keeps up the cartoonish bombast. ... He does understand that "Network" was satire, right? The whole point of that 1976 classic was to skewer demagogues who go for cheap popularity by whipping up fear and anger. The character who screamed those words, Howard Beale, was a washed-up TV anchor in the throes of a mental breakdown. Yet Paladino is coopting the deranged outburst as his trademark tagline. He repeats it in practically every speech, and sometimes gets the audience to chant it with him - just like Howard Beale. ... He claims not to be a politician, but he certainly qualifies in the hypocrisy department. ... Paladino's campaign Web site included Gov. Paterson as an example of Albany corruption because he admitted being unfaithful to his wife and using drugs in the past. Then it comes out Paladino, who's married, fathered a now-10-year-old daughter with an employee of his real estate development firm. ...  There had also been a back-and-forth with several black lawmakers from Buffalo over whether or not Paladino made "racially offensive comments" in public, a characterization he strongly denies. But then came the revelation this week by the WNYmedia blog that he forwarded e-mails to his friends, e-mails widely and accurately described as racist and sexist.  Just to name a few:  A video clip of African tribesmen dancing in a village, entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal."  A photograph of President and Mrs. Obama Photoshopped as a 1970s-era pimp and prostitute.  Other e-mails included references to the "N" word, as well as photos and videos of women performing sexual acts, and yes, even one video clip of bestiality.  WNY said it all:  We don’t pass judgment on what people want to send around to their friends. Carl Paladino, private citizen, can send around all the bestiality videos he wants. Carl Paladino the politician cannot. A person can’t send viciously racist emails or graphic hardcore pornographic videos and then claim to be the Tea Party Christian values candidate. These don’t reflect values. They reflect sexual excitement, sexual perversion, and racial animus.  Even Paladino's response, to one of those persons upset upon receiving the forwarded e-mails, was as bizarre an apology as I've ever seen (quoted in part):  I apologize to you and everyone if that is offensive.  to me its just humor.  i'm not a racist and have never related obamas color to my political distaste for him. ... i'm not sensitive to ethnic humor.  dago, spic, polack whatever we hear the humor everyday.  i think the oversensitivity to black/white is wrong and in itself demeaning.  The Buffalo News' Donn Esmonde appeared dumbstruck:  Somebody needs to call Guinness World Records. I think Carl Paladino just b

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Question: 4 Years... 700,000 More Voters

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(Sorry for the long absence with all of last month¿s big political news¿ as mentioned before, the new little one in the family has kept me away from the hustle and bustle.  Look for more frequent blog entries this month! ¿JM)
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Question: Future: 'You Gotta Step Outside That Box To Reach The People'

The rise of the rapper, singer and songwriter given the name Future when he was a teenager being fostered by the legendary Dungeon Family looks meteoric from the outside. In reality, the musician has reinvented himself a couple times, pored over his predecessors' work and, he says, recorded more than 10 albums worth of songs. He spoke to Microphone Check about working with Andre 3000, the politics of features and the studio life. ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD: What up? FUTURE: What's going on? MUHAMMAD: What's good, man? FUTURE: Man, it's good, it's good. It's good to be here. My tour coming up at the end of May, the first date for the North American tour. You can get the tickets at freebandz.com, so, just to plug that right now off the rip. MUHAMMAD: Do that. FRANNIE KELLEY: What is Freebandz? FUTURE: It's my label. KELLEY: And who's on it? FUTURE: We just got producers. We have artists but we just — no, nothing's signed and sealed besides a few producers right now. KELLEY: Yeah, but they're all over the album, right? FUTURE: Yep. KELLEY: Especially Metro Boomin? FUTURE: Yeah, Metro Boomin, man that's the next, the next big producer. KELLEY: Yeah, also from Atlanta? FUTURE: Nah, he from St. Louis. He live in Atlanta now, but he's from St. Louis. KELLEY: OK. How did you guys come together? FUTURE: Man, someone introduced us. Who it was? I think Propain, he was telling me about him. He used to always try to get at me and then you know, you just can't really talk directly to me so it was someone who was picking up the phone for me at the time. He introduced us and we started just working in the studio, vibing out man, just had a crazy bond and we just bonded it through music and that's like my brother. KELLEY: What do you like about his production? FUTURE: I just like — he different. His sound — the sounds that he choose to put together — he got a real unique sound and just stand out. Man, just super — he just ambitious and he hungry. He never stop; he always working in the studio. Like you call him right now, he probably making a beat, recording someone and just trying to get better at his craft. KELLEY: He's pretty young, right? FUTURE: Yeah, he young. He what, 21? 20, 21. KELLEY: That's crazy to me. I was doing nothing when I was 21. Ali had already put out two classic albums, for example. MUHAMMAD: Yep. FUTURE: Yeah! 21, man, that's the age. But usually, back then, like, back in the day, a artist used to be probably 17, 18 when they came out. All artists used to be 16, 17 around when they come out. Now, it's like more development and now they come out probably when you like 24, 25 would be the breakout age right now. KELLEY: Is that a good thing or a negative thing? FUTURE: It just timing, I guess. MUHAMMAD: Yeah, it's just the way it is though, really. I mean, I knew what I wanted to do at 12, like I knew it. I wanted to make music. It was just, I needed the resources. But I got a 18-year-old nephew, he's like, "I don't know what I'ma do." I'm like, "Man." KELLEY: You gotta figure it out. MUHAMMAD: I just think this generation, it takes them a little bit. FUTURE: Time to catch on. MUHAMMAD: Yeah. KELLEY: Who else is on Freebandz? FUTURE: In Freeband Gang, we got Young Scooter, we got Casino, then my brothers Mexico Rann. We got Doe Boy and — Free Doe Boy — he Freeband Gang. Test out of Baltimore. It's so many of us, it's like the Wu-Tang Clan. MUHAMMAD: So why'd you say — you said the deal wasn't done or something like that? Just a moment ago, you talking about mentioning everybody on the label. FUTURE: Because I really haven't signed 'em to any paperwork. MUHAMMAD: So it's just like -- FUTURE: Loyalty. It's all about loyalty. MUHAMMAD: That's important. FUTURE: I didn't really want to be all — do the paperwork and stuff. I was like, "Man, you just gotta be loyal to me," cause I know when the money come and then when you start getting certain fame it's gonna — you either gonna stay with me or you're gonna be like, "Man, I'm doing my own thing. I'm doing my own record label." Like now, soon as you blow up, everybody want they own record label. MUHAMMAD: Yeah. FUTURE: Want they own crew. They don't want to be part of your crew no more. They like, "Hey, I want to leave." But I just want people to understand. I'm not trying to hold you, I'm not trying to bind you into nothing with me. It's just — if you want to be loyal to me, if you feel like I deserve something, you'll give it to me at your own, at your own time, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to feel like, I want to say I'm obligated to something that's yours. You feel like I deserve it, then give it to me. If not, then it is what it is. MUHAMMAD: That's a rarity. Cause usually people try to like — they find something special and it's just like they want to lock it down and hoard it. FUTURE: Yeah, and tell you what to do. But it's not me, man. I want to have bosses around me, cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to ma

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Question: Garry Wills: "What Paul Meant"

Forum in conversation with historian Garry Wills about the New Testament writings of Saint Paul.

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Question: From One Of Ted's Recommended

From one of Ted's recommended recordings, Rafael Kubelik conducts the Czech Philharmonic in a performance of "Blanik," the last of the six tone poems making up Smetana's "My Country." This performance was recorded in concert at Smetana Hall in Prague in 1990 at the first Prague Spring Festival to follow the fall of the Communist regime the previous November. (Supraphon 11 1208-2)

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Question: NFL Impasse Could Hurt Bar Food Industry

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The NFL lockout could mean there won't be a pro football game this fall. An executive at a major chicken wing supplier said that if sports fans aren't in bars, demand for wings could take a hit. As Joe Sanderson of Sanderson Farms put it: A lost season "would kill wings."

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Question: The News Roundup — International

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Despite statements to the contrary from the Arabian Peninsula, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin-Salman reportedly met secretly with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Neom. While Israel and Saudi Arabia have had a back-channel relationship for many years, this is the first time a meeting of this nature has been made public. Tensions continue to grow in Ethiopia gave the leaders of a region standing in opposition to his government 72 hours to surrender and cooperate. Now, it appears as though a tank attack on the capital city of the Tigray region is imminent. Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona passed away at the age of 60. The Boca Juniors and Napoli legend is considered by many fans and pundits to be the best player in the history of the sport. You should watch this video.
RIP Diego Maradona. No words.pic.twitter.com/oLGscwUmk7 — Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) November 25, 2020

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Question: An Adventurous Start in NYC

There's a stranger in the house. It's Marie Nelson, here, also known as the Wizard of TMM. I typically like to stay behind the scenes, but today I am responding to our web producer's desperate plea for an "on the road" blog entry.  We are broadcasting this week from the Big Apple in honor of TMM's launch on WNYC, the NPR member station in New York. We arrived in the city over the weekend, just in time for the gay pride parade and a series of flash rain storms. Let me tell you, this is a producer's worst nightmare. Our car couldn't make its way through the parade route to pick us up and as we waited outside the skies opened up, sending us running for cover into a friendly retail establishment. Quite frankly, I would have loved the opportunity for an authentic New York shop op but was shamed into action by TMM producer Monika Evstatieva, who braved the storm to track down our car. We suffered through the deadly combination of wet sticky clothing and overly efficient air conditioning as we slowly made our way to Brooklyn for our first field taping. Did I mention the driver with an off sense of direction, who ended every other sentence with "thanks be to God"? And then our fortunes changed. Michel's visit to her old neighborhood in East New York was truly special. It was both a homecoming and a reunion with her childhood friend Leslie Groves. A driveway moment if I say so myself, and I do. We followed up the trip to the BK (that's Brooklyn if you're in the know ... lol) with a stop back in Manhattan to talk with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway hit musical In the Heights. Miranda, who had just returned from a matinee performance, greeted us at the door in his crew socks, and played video games while we set up for the interview. He's a great talent who seems unaffected by his success. He was kind enough to show us the presentation envelope he got for his recent Tony win (he's still waiting for the real deal to arrive from the engravers). It's another great conversation if for no other reason than it's awesome to hear someone who talks as fast as Michel. Finally, we took a quick trip to the balmy New York bureau (that's code for no air conditioning) to file tape, edit scripts, put out calls for Desmond Tutu (we want to talk to him about the situation in Zimbabwe), write a commentary ... and so on. Life on the road is certainly not glamorous -- it is often fraught with peril -- but it just goes to show how much we love what we do. Besides, you know what they say. If I can make it there; I'll make it anywhere.

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Question: The Nature Of 'Boo!' or: What Does It Take To Really Scare The Pants Off Of You?

There are two scary-movie franchises putting out new chapters this week: Rob Zombie's Halloween II is opening against The Final Destination — which is actually the fourth movie in the

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Question: Looking Back at NPR's Coverage

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With news reports, essays and images, NPR covered the events of Sept. 11 and the weeks after. Our radio archive includes live reports, background stories and reflections by our correspondents. As Alex Chadwick observed in an essay, "Wherever you are waking up this morning, you're in a different country, in a different time." Audio Archives In the 10-day period starting Sept. 11, 2001, NPR News produced many hours of special coverage, in addition to regularly scheduled programming. The following is an audio archive of that coverage through Sept. 20, indexed by show with the most recent audio listed first. NPR's coverage since Sept. 20, 2001, can be found in the full npr.org archives.  The People Behind the stark statistics of the victims' lists are the sagas of terror, heroism and miraculous escapes. Listen to stories of the attack and the mourning, coping and recovery in the days that follow. The Scene The World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Read more about the places hit in the attack and listen to the stories from ground zero.  Speeches and Statements Listen to the key speeches and statements by President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other officials.  Images Astonishing images have filled the TV screens, pages and computer monitors across the world. View slide shows of recent days' events.  Essays Read and listen as NPR’s journalists, along with citizens and children, artists and analysts comment on the Sept. 11 attack and the events that followed.

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Question: Small Businesses Urged To Help U.S. Double Exports

The Obama administration wants to double U.S. exports by 2015, and it wants small businesses to get their share of the pie. The Export-Import Bank is taking the lead in a program that hopes to identify 5,000 small businesses and turn them into exporters.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- NTSB: Amtrak Washington Train Doing 80 MPH In 30 MPH Zone. -- U.S. Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For 'WannaCry' Ransomware Attack. -- CHARTS: See How Much Of GOP Tax Cuts Will Go To The Middle Class. And here are more early headlines: GOP Tax Bill Goes To House Floor For Vote. (Washington Post) House GOP Offers $81 Million Hurricane, Fire Disaster Aid Bill. (CNN)  McMaster Calls For Action To Block North Korea Nuclear Program. (PBS)  Atlanta Airport Returning To Normal Operations. (Atlanta Journal Constitution) Astronaut And 2 Others Dock At International Space Station. (CBS) New Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Springs A Leak. (BBC) U.N. Finds 49% Increase In Migration Numbers Since 2000. (U.N. News Centre) U.S. Calls For Relief Food To Be Delivered To Yemen. (Reuters)


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Since the start of the Syrian war, the United States has accepted 1,500 refugees — most of them this year. It could take in 8,000 next year. Many are asking why the U.S. isn't doing more.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Lawmakers Seek Federal 'Oversight' Of Workers' Comp As States Limit Benefits. -- Syria's Assad Visits Moscow To Discuss Military Plans With Putin. -- U.S. Fighter Jet Reportedly Crashes Near Air Base In England. And here are more early headlines: Obama To Visit West Virginia, Discuss Plan To Fight Drug Abuse. (Time) Amnesty International Fears For Rohingya Muslims Missing At Sea. (VOA) Slovenia Asks For E.U. Help To Deal With Thousands Of Migrants. (AFP) Mexico To Restart Investigation Into Fate Of 43 Missing Students. (BBC) Tropical Storm Patricia Forms Off Mexico's Pacific Coast. (NHC) Top U.S. Navy Officials Visit China's Aircraft Carrier To Smooth Ties. (Reuters) Singapore Church Leaders Convicted In Pop Music Fraud Scheme. (Sydney Morning Herald) Why Vultures Can Eat Rotting Carcasses And Not Get Sick. (Phys.org)


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Late word this afternoon that the initiative has been filed for funding the health care reform plan now awaiting state Senate approval, with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez as its official authors.
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Question: Another Bailout Looms, But This Time It's For Kabul

Afghanistan is rated by Transparency International as the third most corrupt country in the world. But that does not seem to be affecting U.S. aid to Afghanistan, which continues to grow. The white whale of graft is Kabul Bank, which needs a bailout that may top $900 million because of bad loans made to friends and relatives of high-ranking Afghan government officials. Of course, with little revenue of its own, an Afghan government bank bailout really means a bailout by the international community, and more money from the United States. 'A Tragedy' At a main branch in downtown Kabul, the bank appears to be doing business as usual, albeit with fewer customers than before. Tellers in shiny suits, each sitting behind a mechanical money counter, greet customers. Nothing here indicates that the bank is insolvent, or that it's at the center of Afghanistan's biggest corruption scandal. Azarakhsh Hafizi of the Afghan Chamber of Commerce says Kabul Bank gave 1.3 million Afghans the chance to take their money out of their mattresses and enter the modern world of savings accounts and even ATMs. "Kabul Bank was one of the successful [businesses] in Afghanistan," he says. Deposits from widows, soldiers and young Afghans earning a few hundred dollars a month gave the bank $1 billion in assets, which Hafizi says should have been used to invest in Afghan industries. "It was a tragedy story," he says. "For Afghan economy, the Kabul Bank was a great opportunity to run some good businesses, to finance some good businesses, like Afghan steel company, Afghan oil company, Afghan national aviation." Kabul Bank was a symbol of faith in the new Afghanistan, says Hafizi, but that trust is now in tatters. Banking Gone Bad The news first broke last fall that hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bad loans would probably not be paid back. There was a run on the bank, with long lines of angry customers, and the government stepped in. Soon after, stories about who had received the loans trickled out — some of them in U.S. Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks. Shareholders — including the brother of Afghan Vice President Mohammad Fahim and President Hamid Karzai's own brother Mahmood — appear to have lent themselves huge amounts. The question is how to get them to pay it back. A number of corruption probes are under way, including a grand jury investigation in the United States of Karzai's brother. Analysts in Kabul doubt Karzai will allow any of his few remaining political allies to be taken down, but they also wonder whether the U.S. Congress can stomach a billion-dollar bailout for Karzai's friends and relatives. It may have little choice if it wants to save the Afghan state, says Mustafa Kazem, a Kabul businessman. "As an Afghan-American and a U.S. taxpayer, my immediate response is: 'Where are my taxpayer dollars going to?' " he says. "But just as we did, I think, with the banking or the financial sector in America, I think decisions were made on who you bail out and how you intervene, to make sure something greater doesn't happen." If the banking system goes down, the Afghan government might go with it, he says. Kabul Bank and one other large bank hold 50 percent of the country's assets, and all the government payroll goes through Kabul Bank. The crisis may soon come to a head. An International Monetary Fund delegation visited Afghanistan in mid-February and returned a stern verdict, demanding prosecutions and the return of missing assets. Until the IMF gives the country a clean bill of health, many donor nations are legally prohibited from giving more money to Afghanistan. But not the United States, which is expected to underwrite the majority of any bailout.

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Question: Beaches, Bathing Suits, And Finally On The Big Screen, 'Baywatch'

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It's a beach in Florida this time — I know you care because we're all here for the plot, right? — and head lifeguard Mitch Buchannon is now The Rock not The Hoff. "Our team is the elite of the elite," Dwayne Johnson's Mitch tells his Baywatch recruits, "the heart and soul of this very beach." Also the pecs, glutes, and washboard abs of this very beach, of course. A beach that is apparently in peril, though you'd hardly guess from the less-than-rigorous lifeguard-tryouts Mitch is holding. Or from the snark he throws at Zac Efron's stuck-up Olympic swimmer, Matt Brody, who tries to get out of those tryouts. Mitch won't even utter the kid's name. "Hey, One Direction..." he snorts, then turns to returning guard Ilfenesh Hadera for support. "New Kid on the Block here is from Iowa. A lot of oceans in Iowa?" "What is this," wonders Brody, "lifeguard hazing?" And yeah, that's it in a clamshell, and it's all the film has going on for most of the first hour. Which will probably be fine with its intended audience. On TV, the series was cancelled after its first season, then became a megahit during a decade or so in syndication. Movies operate on different principles, though, and internet porn has made skimpy bathing suits less potent draws than they once were. So the screenwriters have come up with jokes to fill the time between explosions and near-drownings. Dwayne Johnson is endearing enough to keep that boy-band name thing going a lot longer than you'd think he could. Efron's decently amusing, too, mostly at playing dumb, as when Alexandra Daddario suggests he raise his gaze. "You should look at my face," she flirts. "I'm trying," he smirks, "but it's so close to your boobs." You'll note that the women are a take-charge bunch these days (not that Pamela Anderson wasn't — no emails please). No one would accuse the film's women of having personalities, but the filmmakers did decide to let them make the jokes about physicality, not be the butt of them.  "Why does she always look like she's running in slo-mo?" wonders Daddario, as she watches Kelly Rohrbach's CJ do what Anderson did before her.  "You see it too?" marvels Jon Bass' pudgy guard-in-training. It's the cinematic equivalent of air-quotes.  The guys meanwhile get the gross-out stuff — genitalia caught in a lounge chair, a trip to the morgue where the talk turns scrotal (actually, the guy-talk frequently takes that turn). And when nudity is called for, who ends up naked? Bass, natch, who doesn't realize he's in a co-ed shower.  Females empowered, males embarrassed. All played with bathing suits skimpy enough that you figure there must be a spandex shortage in Florida. Which is guilty-pleasure-ish fun for a while, until director Seth Gordon feels the need to tell an actual story, involving real estate deals and a gorgeous villain (crossover Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra) in evening gowns so clingy, low-cut, and slit up the side that she might as well be in the red suits Mitch's team is wearing.  Unlike the setup, the story founders and cramps like a tourist who swam too soon after an all-you-can-eat buffet, which is pretty much the only thing the filmmakers don't toss into the water by film's end. The plot doesn't quite sink Baywatch, but it sure slows it down. Still, as Efron shouts over a motorboat's roar, "all things considered, things coulda gone a lot worse." True that. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:  And now beaches, bathing suits and "Baywatch" - "Baywatch" on the big screen. On TV, the series turned out to be critic-proof, no doubt the movie will too. That has not kept NPR's Bob Mondello from filing this review. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: It's a beach in Florida this time. I know you care because we're all here for the plot, right? And head lifeguard Mitch Buchannon is now The Rock, not the Hoff. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BAYWATCH") DWAYNE JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) Our team is the elite of the elite, the heart and soul of this very beach. MONDELLO: Also the pecs, glutes and washboard abs of this very beach which is apparently in peril, though you'd not guess that from the less than rigorous lifeguard tryouts Mitch is holding or the snark he throws at Zac Efron's stuck-up Olympic swimmer who tries to get out of those tryouts. Mitch won't even utter the kid's name. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BAYWATCH") JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) Hey, One Direction, you here for the qualifiers? ZAC EFRON: (As Matt Brody) I'm Matt Brody. I don't have to try out. I've got two gold medals. JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) Hey, Steph. ILFENESH HADERA: (As Stephanie Holden) Hey. JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) New Kids on the Block here is from Iowa. EFRON: (As Matt Brody) Oh, man. HADERA: (As Stephanie Holden) Really? JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) Let me ask you this - a lot of oceans in Iowa? HADERA: (As Stephanie Holden) No, just ponds and lakes and cocky pretty boys. Hey, Mitch, what happened to that last pretty boy recruit we had? JOHNSON: (As Mitch Buchannon) He died. EFRON: (As Matt Brody) What

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Question: Navigating The 'Aisle Of Confusion' To Whiten Your Teeth

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Walk down the aisle of your local pharmacy or grocery store and you'll be bombarded by a dizzying array of bleaching products, from gels and strips to paint-on bleach. Cosmetic tooth bleaching is a $3.2 billion global industry, according to market analysts, and it's getting bigger fast. It's easy to see why. Strikingly white, bright smiles dominate TV and social media, and people tend to prefer the bright teeth of youth rather than those that have been yellowed by trauma or age. But if you decide that you, too, want a brighter smile, it's hard to know where to start. "I'm a dentist, but I'm also a consumer and I can certainly get confused by all the products," says Ruchi Sahota who practices in Fremont, Calif. A colleague of hers describes the tooth product aisle in stores as the "dental aisle of confusion," because there are so many options. "You can easily get bewildered standing there trying to figure out which option is the best," she says. The dilemma isn't helped by regulators. Tooth whitening products don't need approval from the Food and Drug Administration before hitting the market, because the agency considers them "cosmetic," a designation that's much more lightly regulated than drugs. And, the FDA says it has not determined that any ingredients contained in currently marketed products are unsafe. The American Dental Association does offer some guidance in choosing a bleaching product — its ADA seal of acceptance. "The seal is rooted in science," says chemist Jamie Spomer, director of the ADA's seal of acceptance program; she notes that when a manufacturer applies for the seal, an independent panel of dentists analyzes the company's data and sometimes performs studies of their own. The seal is a "symbol that an independent panel reviewed and approved the product for its safety and effectiveness," Spomer says. Many toothpastes carry the ADA seal. So far only one over-the-counter-bleaching product does — Crest 3D White Glamorous White Whitestrips. Even so, Sahota says many over-the-counter products that don't carry the seal can still be effective if used as directed. Most cause some tooth sensitivity during the bleaching process, but that goes away once the process is complete, she says. Depending on which product is used, bleaching can take anywhere from two to six weeks. And, if you're not careful, Sahota says the products can leak onto the gums, causing inflammation and "extra sensitivity" to pressure, temperature and touch. A safer but more costly option might be to buy a custom-made tray from your dentist, Sahota says. Unlike the one-size-fits-all trays sold over the counter, a dentist makes the tray "just for you" she says. The tray hugs the teeth and ensures the gel is kept where it should be and is evenly applied. The kits cost about $400; this at-home whitening process can take up to four weeks, depending on how stained the teeth are to begin with. Generally, the trays are worn for one or two hours a day. If you want an even faster route, you'll have to pay more. Bleaching in the dental office can run more than $1,000, but results are quick and more dramatic. Dentists use bleaching gels that rely on high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (up to 40 percent hydrogen peroxide, compared to a 5 to 6 percent concentration in drugstore kits and a 10 to 15 percent solution in the home-kits from dentists). So the whole process in the dentist's office can take just an hour or two to complete. And because the peroxide concentrations used there are much higher, the results can be many shades lighter than with take-home kits and over-the-counter products. An important caveat: Insurance companies consider in-office teeth whitening "cosmetic" so the procedures are almost never covered. Nonetheless, more Americans are opting for in-office whitening. In 2015, in-office bleaching procedures rose 29 percent over the year before, according to an American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry survey. And there's at least a little evidence that the whiter the smile the more attractive the person – in a 2012 study both men and women said they prefer white teeth when choosing a mate. But go to the dentist before you start bleaching, says Ada Cooper, a New York City dentist. "Tooth discoloration can be caused by cavities and other oral problems," she says. "It's more important to maintain healthy teeth." It's also important to note that not all stains are the same. Some are mostly on the surface of the teeth and come from consuming lots of dark colored liquids like coffee, tea and red wine, as well as foods with vibrant yellow spices like turmeric. The tar and nicotine from cigarettes are also huge culprits. Often surface stains can be diminished by routine brushing, flossing and biannual professional cleaning in the dentist's office. Unfortunately, there are deeper stains you just can't avoid by being careful about what you eat and drink. These come with aging and years of chewing, which causes millions of tiny cracks

Brett Favre announced yesterday that he will continue playing. But only for one more year. And if you believe that, then you also must believe that the following events will also occur, as they appear to be far more likely than his actual retirement -- as we noted in a post that ran one year ago yesterday. 1. Yale Students Welcome Snooki On Her First Day 2. Lady Gaga Unveils Line Of Tummy-Shaping Undergarments 3. New 'American Idol' Judges Are A Big Hit; Show's Problems Solved 4. J-Lo Arrested In Extensive Anti-Booty Rioting 5. Brett Favre Eaten By Coyotes 6. James Franco: 'It's Probably Time To Calm Down' 7. Kathryn Bigelow Says James Cameron Is 'Probably Right' About 3D 8. What Ever Happened To Justin Bieber? 9. Herbert Hoover Reincarnated As Large, Enthusiastic Cocker Spaniel 10. Bryn Mawr Endows Katy Perry Chair 11. Musicologists Discover 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' Speeded Up 800 Percent Sounds Like 'Yakety Sax' 12. Experts Agree: Helen Mirren Has Totally Let Herself Go 13. Bret Michaels Gets Green Party Endorsement 14. Kanye Interrupted At VMAs By Irate, Obscene Rant From Bon Iver's Justin Vernon 15. Brett Favre Shocks World By Totally Not Retiring At All 16. Starbucks Introduces Prozac-Infused "Happuccino" 17. Health Trend Continues As 'Fiber Emporium' Buys Out 436 Dying Cupcake Stores 18. Internet Reaches Consensus: 'It Turns Out It Was Mostly A Misunderstanding' 19. Public Embraces Inexpensive Pacifiers Made From Recycled Truck Tires 20. It's Official, Guv'nor: Brits Love American-Made Tea 21. Worldwide Fretting Over Jennifer Aniston's Love Life Suspended 22. Brett Favre Struck By Lightning While Playing Golf 23. Cold Fusion Discovered By Participant In ABC's 'Shark Tank' 24. Facebook Streamlines Privacy Controls With 'Just Don't Tell Anybody Anything About Me Unless I Say It's Okay' Button 25. Brett Favre Plans Stint In Minor League Baseball: What Could Go Wrong?


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Question: Some Loyal Foursquare Users Are Checking Out After Swarm Spinoff

As tech companies know well, users can be an unruly lot. And with their voices amplified on social media, they can be downright nasty when they're displeased. Such is the case for Foursquare, the location-based check-in app that boasted 50 million users worldwide. Last week, Foursquare formally spun off its core app into two — Foursquare, and a new idea called Swarm. If Swarm's app store ratings (2 out of 5 stars), the video sendups and the Twitter hashtags #hateswarm and #killswarm are any indication, users don't like it. Swarm is now supposed to be the app for check-ins. I'm not quite sure what the revamped Foursquare is supposed to be for, but it sounds like it will give me personalized recommendations of bars, restaurants and other places to go, a la Yelp. Foursquare-the-company put it this way:  "This is the beginning of the 'personalized local search' future we've been talking about since we started Foursquare. ... If you've been waiting for real local search, not just the yellow pages on your phone, stay tuned. The all new Foursquare will be here really soon."  Clearing the way for the all-new Foursquare meant pushing check-ins off to Swarm. But here's a problem: Swarm doesn't resemble Foursquare in any recognizable way, and it's missing a lot of the core features that were the very reasons dedicated users logged in. Earning mayorships for numerous check-ins? Gone. Collecting badges for various activities? Gone. Making lists of places to keep in mind for later? Gone or impossible to find. And there's the matter of battery life. The Foursquare and Swarm users who are publicly announcing they're abandoning the apps say the apps are a real drain — literally. Facebook is famously (or perhaps infamously) iterative; it just spun off messaging into a new app, Facebook Messenger. It's also rankled users almost every time it changed its news feed or profiles. But algorithmic or design changes never outright abandoned what users believed was the core purpose for the service. Foursquare, on the other hand, gutted the very reason people used it (check-ins and competing with friends) and moved it on to something else (Swarm), leaving behind a completely different experience on the main Foursquare app. In an amusing twist, Mashable points out that a Facebook product manager who worked on unbundling Messenger from Facebook wrote a Medium post called "Dear Foursquare: A Breakup Letter." You know who made a move more akin to Foursquare? Netflix. It once tried to split itself into two, Netflix for streaming videos and something called Qwikster for the DVD-by-mail service. After being called the worst product launch since New Coke, the company rolled that back faster than Garth Brooks canceled the world tour for Chris Gaines, the pop-star alter ego he tried to spin off as its own thing. We reached out to Foursquare to get a better idea of where it's going with this and have yet to hear back. Money is a motivator, most likely. "In the first two quarters of this year, we'll make more money than we did all of last year," Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley predicted at an event held in San Francisco by ReadWrite. And Foursquare Chief Operating Officer Jeff Glueck, who has insight into actual user data, told The Verge that current users are checking in more than ever. "People are using Foursquare and Swarm better," he says. "They check in more often on Swarm according to our data, and are using Foursquare more often to explore. We're seeing more Explore queries once people migrated." The company did admit to some missteps with this rollout, and as we wait for the revamped Foursquare, more and more users like Meredith Gould are quitting both apps. Gould, a Baltimore-based digital strategist whose more than 80,000 tweets indicate she's a social media lover, not hater, gave up on Swarm about a week ago. "It's such an ugly, dysfunctional, cumbersome, irrelevant, unnecessary app that sucks battery life," Gould says of Swarm. "Why bother? Why do I need two apps when I had one that provided both services?" But she misses Foursquare for what it was, especially because it served a real function in her daily life. "Checking into Foursquare was a way to keep track of my day, connect with people in my network and stay connected with them. Getting rid of Foursquare means I've lost something that was helping organize my day, and organize the way I was thinking about and sharing my day," Gould says. "What I'm interested in is, at what point are they going to recognize that the public is right and go back to what used to be normal?" She isn't alone.

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In the latest political love poem from the national media to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new edition of Esquire magazine proclaims that the governor is leading the nation into a ¿new kind of politics.¿

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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert weren't the only funny ones at The Rally  to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall Saturday. Here are  some of the signs we spotted throughout the day. God Hates Snuggies I Was Told There'd Be Cookies. We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself, And Spiders. Kitlers Against Hitler Analogies Government Doesn't Suck Real Patriots Drink Whiskey Don't Tread On Anyone That's No Moon Hyperbole Or Instant Death Slogans Are Crap I Stand 4 Good Posture I'm A Veteran. I'm An American. I Am Muslim. I Support The Right To Arm Bears Calm The F*** Down America Fear Is Illogical Just Stop Bickering And Clean This Mess Up THIS FONT IS BIG Going Out Of Business Everything 70-80 Percent Off I Am Moderately Excited For This Stand On The Right, Walk On The Left You Don't Have To Be Nice, Just Don't Be Mean Libraries Are Socialist Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet I thought Neil Young was going to be playing 1 Percent Sane, 98 Percent American, You Do The Math! Olivia Munn Fan (No ...  Really ...) Fear Gives Me A Boehner My Wife Is A Muslim And Not A Terrorist, But I'm Scared Of Her Anyway Abide CAPSLOCK IS NOT PERSUASIVE Festivas For The Rest Of Us I Heart Beck's Album Mellow Gold It Was His Best In My Opinion Senate Math 41 > 59 Yelling Rarely Works ... I Know, I'm A Mom! Don't Stomp On My Head, Bro


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Question: Letters: Cheney; Gates; 'Peanut Dude'

Listeners respond to stories about Dick Cheney's response to President Obama's national security speech, our coverage of the passing of Arnie Murphy (aka the "Peanut Dude"), and the repeated misidentification of the secretary of defense.

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Question: NPR Politics Lunchbox: Trump Picks Pence As VP; Congress Breaks For 7-Week Vacation

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NPR Politics presents the Lunchbox List: our favorite campaign news and stories curated from NPR and around the Web in digestible bites (100 words or less!). Look for it every weekday afternoon from now until the conventions. Convention Countdown The Republican National Convention is in 2 days in Cleveland. The Democratic National Convention is in 9 days in Philadelphia. Did you know? In the midst of heated debate over the RNC rules yesterday, the committee abruptly recessed, claiming printer troubles. The true reason for the break? A secret meeting among key Republican operatives, attempting to strike a deal with anti-Trump delegates.  July 15, 2016 Friday, Obama condemned the attack in Nice, France; Clinton tries to define Trump before he basks in the GOP convention spotlight; former Trump campaign manger Corey Lewandowski joins CNN after contentious media exchanges; Clinton campaigns with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine; a new study that looks at the line between racial bias and the Tea Party; and what contested conventions look like as explained by Hollywood and Sinclair Lewis. We'll be moving full steam ahead as the Republican National Convention begins Monday. We hope you enjoyed the Lunchbox as much as we did curating it for you! Special thanks to our editors for giving us (the interns!) the opportunity to produce this series. Keep following us at nprpolitics.org, on Twitter @nprpolitics and on Facebook.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Biden: McConnell Refused To Sign Bipartisan Statement On Russian Interference. -- Trump Lashes Out After Schumer Withdraws Offer On Border Wall. -- Remains Of 5 Gas Rig Workers Recovered After Explosion In Oklahoma. -- The Memo, The Bureau And The Missing Texts: Get Caught Up On The War Over The FBI. -- Google's Space Race To The Moon Ends, And Nobody Wins Lunar X Prize. -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth's Pregnancy Set To Be Another First For The Illinois Democrat. -- Gunmen Storm Afghan Office Of Save The Children. And here are more early headlines: Ex-Brazilian President Lula Waits For Corruption Appeal Verdict. (AFP) New Interim San Francisco Mayor Picked; Opponents Say Race A Factor. (SF Gate) Foreclosures Could Increase In Puerto Rico After Hurricanes. (AP) Senate Close To Voting On HHS Nominee, Alex Azar. (The Hill) "Where We Net Out At This": The Jargon At Davos. (BBC)


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Question: Budget Cuts and State Parks

A proposal to plug an estimated $16 billion budget deficit by closing dozens of state parks — including nine in the Bay Area — is raising concern. Forum talks with some of the stakeholders.

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