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Question: Science Was A Muse To Inspire Romantic Art

In a letter dated 1800, the great Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark." John Keats' famous 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" celebrated the recent discovery of Uranus — the first new planet to be found in more than a thousand years. In fact, says author Richard Holmes, the scientific discoveries of the Romantic age inspired generations of great artists and their work. Holmes is the author of the book The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.  He says the book is constructed as a "relay race" of scientific stories that span the years between botanist Joseph Banks' voyage to Tahiti in 1769 and Charles Darwin's journey to the Galapagos in 1831. "For most people, this period really is the great Romantic period in literature, which we associate with Wordsworth and Coleridge and Shelley and Byron and Keats," Holmes tells host Guy Raz. "But it gradually became clear to me that the scientific breakthroughs in this period had a major effect on how people saw the world and the universe and also how people wrote about it." Those breakthroughs included amateur astronomer William Herschel's discovery of Uranus, the seventh planet, in 1781. But Herschel himself was an unlikely discoverer. He was a German immigrant who settled in England as a young man, a musician by training and a composer and music teacher by day. But at night, Holmes says, Herschel and his younger sister Caroline spent hours scouring the sky.  William Herschel used to rub raw onions on his hands to stave off the cold. Caroline wore layers of woolen petticoats. The key to their discoveries, Holmes tells Guy Raz, was the radical construction of their homemade telescopes.  Instead of traditional refractor telescopes, the Herschels made reflector telescopes using large mirrors cast from molten metal in their basement kitchen.  After casting the mirrors, William Herschel would have to polish them nonstop for hours on end, to keep the metal from misting over before they were placed inside the telescope. Holmes says that during one epic 16-hour polishing session, young Caroline "put food in his mouth to keep him going and read from The Arabian Nights." It's that kind of ingenuity that characterized the Romantic age of science. Another character in the book, Humphry Davy, invented the miners' lamp and measured the cubic capacity of his own lungs. He also experimented with gasses — including carbon monoxide and laughing gas — on himself. This father of modern chemistry was catapulted to fame in England, Holmes says; Lord Byron even mentioned Davy and his lifesaving lantern in his satiric poem "Don Juan." But Holmes says that Davy formed a direct friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge when the poet volunteered to take part in the chemist's experiments. "You need to imagine this extraordinary moment when the great Romantic poet, fresh from his opium experiments, fresh from writing the poem 'Kubla Khan,' goes into [Davy's] laboratory at Bristol and breathes his experimental gasses, and then gives his description of what physical and psychological effect they have on him," Holmes says. Davy's experiments with gasses were a precursor to the later discovery of anesthesia.   In his book, Holmes chronicles the adventures of early balloonists and the explorer Mungo Park in Africa. He also explores the effects of the scientific climate on Mary Shelley's cult novel Frankenstein. In the end, he makes clear that one thing the scientists and artists of the Romantic era shared was a need to both live and describe their "age of wonder." Romanticism as a cultural force is generally regarded as intensely hostile to science, its ideal of subjectivity eternally opposed to that of scientific objectivity. But I do not believe this was always the case, or that the terms are so mutually exclusive. The notion of wonder seems to be something that once united them, and can still do so.  In effect there is Romantic science in the same sense there is Romantic poetry, and often for the same enduring reasons. The first scientific revolution of the 17th century is familiarly associated with the names of Newton, Hooke, Locke and Descartes, and the almost simultaneous foundations of the Royal Society in London, and the Academie des Sciences in Paris. It existence has long been accepted, and the biographies of its leading figures are well known.   But this second revolution was something different. The first person who referred to a "second scientific revolution" was probably the poet Coleridge in his Philosophical Lectures of 1819. It was inspired primarily by a sudden series of breakthroughs in the fields of astronomy and chemistry. It was a movement that grew out of 18th century Enlightenment rationalism, but largely transformed it, by bringing a new imaginative intensity and excitement to scientific work. It was driven by a common ideal of intense, even reckless, personal com

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I spent Saturday afternoon at a meeting of the American Political Items Collectors in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, and while it is always wonderful palling around with my fellow insane button collectors, it's even better when I come away with plenty of items that will extend the life of ScuttleButton. ScuttleButton, as you know, is the once a week waste of time exercise in which each Monday I put up a      vertical display  of  buttons on this site.          Your     job is to  simply take one word      (or    concept)   per        button,  add      'em up,  and,     hopefully, you      will    arrive    at  a     famous   name  or  a familiar expression.   (And        seriously,  by familiar, I mean it's   something                  that      more than  one       person  on   Earth would        recognize.) For          years, a    correct     answer chosen  at         random would get  his  or     her    name     posted in this      column, an     incredible  honor in  itself.        Now the    stakes  are    even   higher.     Thanks   to the  efforts of   the    folks  at Talk of the Nation, that person also  hears their name mentioned on the Wednesday show (by me) and receives a Political Junkie t-shirt in the bargain.  Is this a great country or what? You can't  use the   comments box at the bottom  of  the page    for your answer.  Send   submission (plus your   name and   city/state — you   won't   win without that) to  politicaljunkie@npr.org. And,         by adding your name to    the Political                  Junkie mailing list,   you  will be among the first on your  block to                         receive notice       about the column and the puzzle.    Sign    up      at  politicaljunkie@npr.org.          Or you can make sure to get an automatic RSS feed whenever a new        Junkie   post goes up by clicking here. Good                           luck! By                      the way, I announce the        winner on      Wednesday's       Junkie segment on TOTN.  But with a new puzzle up    every Monday       afternoon, you   should      get your    answer   in    as soon as possible. Here are the buttons used and the answer to the current puzzle: At Last! — Button put out by friends of Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat who was finally elected to the House in 1976 — ten years after he first started running for the seat. Amtrak button — The U.S. passenger railroad government-owned company. 2 Clark for President buttons — Retired Gen. Wesley Clark was a Democratic presidential hopeful in 2004. Ohio Conservatives for Phil Crane President 1980 — Crane was a GOP congressman from Illinois who was the first to launch his candidacy for the 1980 nomination. So, when you combine Last + Train + 2 Clarks + Phil, you just very well may get ... Last Train to Clarksville. An early hit by the 1960s musical group The Monkees, and featured here in memory of one of its leaders, Davy Jones, who died on Feb. 29.  Truth be told, this song was not one of my favorite Monkee hits; I think "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Valerie," "Words" and "She" were much better.  And I can't believe I'm engaging myself in a conversation about songs by the Monkees.  Especially when there's so much more important stuff out there.  Like this week's Political Junkie column. Anyway, this week's ScuttleButton winner, chosen completely at random, is ... Cindy Mussavage of New Bern, N.C. Cindy gets a TOTN t-shirt.

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Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week's news: It's a Bird! It's A Plane! It's Amazon!; The Holy Doorman; Father Stealthmas.


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['Represent this short title to find a subtitle that might be right below it on NPR:', 'Gravity Never Sleeps, And Other Lessons Nations Learn From Space Programs'] == ['Represent the subtitle to find a news title on NPR with less details', 'Sputnik 1 just beeped. China\'s first satellite, launched more than a decade later, simply radioed a communist anthem back to Earth. So far, North Korea\'s first satellite appears to be less accomplished. And that shouldn\'t be a surprise. Given the history of first orbital space shots, North Korea\'s apparent struggle with its mission is fairly typical, says David Akin, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland. "You generally don\'t have high aspirations for either the longevity or the scientific return of a first satellite," he says. There are conflicting reports about whether the satellite, launched Wednesday, is safely circling Earth. U.S. officials have been quoted as saying Kwangmyongsong-3 is "tumbling out of control," while South Korea\'s Defense Ministry says it\'s too soon to tell if the craft is functioning properly. Glenn Lightsey, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas, says if the satellite is in fact tumbling as it orbits, then it\'s not going to be very useful for anything other than propaganda points. "They may not be able to point the radio antenna in a direction where they can communicate with the satellite," he says. Akin says that like a lot of small satellites, North Korea\'s probably doesn\'t have an attitude control system — either in the form of rocket thrusters or other devices that use either electromagnets or gyroscopes. Not being able to control the satellite in orbit is just one of many things that can go wrong, says Akin. Just getting into orbit is a precise maneuver. "The problem with launching a satellite is that you have to get to the right altitude, going at the right speed and in the right direction," he says. "If you miss any one of those, you\'re not going to be in the orbit you want to be in." And if North Korean mission control can\'t stop the satellite from tumbling, its low-Earth orbit could decay in weeks or months, says Lightsey. "It depends on a lot of things — how high the orbit is and the [atmospheric] drag on the satellite, which will depend on its size and mass and the shape of its orbit," he says. By all accounts, the satellite is small, says Akin, and "a lightweight satellite, kind of like a shuttlecock, is going to fall back into the atmosphere a lot sooner than a bowling ball." Not every nation\'s first satellite suffers the apparent fate of the North Korean mission. One example: the U.S. Explorer 1, launched in 1958 just months after Sputnik 1. Explorer reached a fairly high orbit and had a radiation detector aboard. It made an important discovery — the Van Allen radiation belt that surrounds the Earth and had previously been unknown. "That was sort of the jackpot, but it was kind of happy circumstance," Akin says. Sooner or later, the North Korean satellite may suffer a fiery re-entry into Earth\'s atmosphere. Small objects that plunge from space generally are destroyed long before reaching the surface. But when it\'s a big one, such as NASA\'s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) that came down last year, some debris survives. Statistically, about two-thirds of the time, this plunge occurs over water. That\'s what happened to UARS, which crashed harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean. But hitting land can mean problems. In 1978, Soviet spy satellite Kosmos 954 came down over northern Canada, spreading radioactive debris from its nuclear reactor over a large swath of wilderness tundra.'] != ['Represent this subtitle to find a title that might be right above it on NPR:', 'Stories: 1) The Science Behind Deep-Water Oil Drilling 2) Real Life Documentaries Trump Reality TV Every Day']

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A look back on the week's biggest local news stories from 91.7 WVXU.

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Question: 5 Things You Never Knew About Schumann

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All this week, we'll be focusing our lens on the music of Robert Schumann and the lasting impact of his work. Leading the conversation is pianist Jonathan Biss, who's making a 30-concert project out of this Schumann exploration all season long and who has written a series of essays on Schumann. Starting things off for us today is musicologist and Schumann expert Eric Frederick Jensen. Robert Schumann's music has never been more popular than it is now. But during his lifetime (1810-56), concerts were more likely to include pieces by Louis Spohr, Wilhelm Taubert, Ferdinand Hiller, or Julius Rietz. Not exactly household names today. So what led to Schumann's increased popularity? Definitely a change in taste, which included more of a willingness to accept music that sounded different. But there was also a concerted effort at reevaluation. Much of it focused on mental illness, a taboo topic in the 19th century. Friends and family of Schumann worked to create their own image of him, one which downplayed the role of mental illness in his life. At the opposite extreme was the public perception. It sensationalized the final years he'd spent in an asylum, and tagged any of his eccentricities as proof of his insanity. In the end, Schumann's reputation was broadly diminished, his music "tainted by his madness." In the 20th century, as letters, diaries, and reminiscences came to light — and as the public's fear and hostility towards mental illness began to fade — a more balanced and nuanced view of Schumann emerged. New biographical information appeared as well. But misconceptions die hard. What follows is a small attempt to set the record straight.  5 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT ROBERT SCHUMANN  1. Schumann became a composer because he failed as a pianist. The 1830s were the dawn of a new kind of piano virtuosity, exemplified by Chopin and Liszt. Schumann was eager to make his mark, and to try to speed up the process he constructed a weird device using a cigar box and some wire. It was intended to prop up his fingers while practicing, the idea being to strengthen them and develop independence. But instead, two fingers on his right hand were permanently injured. Schumann informed his family, who had only grudgingly given their approval to his intended career as a musician, that instead of now becoming a lawyer — which is what he promised to do if a piano career failed — he was going to focus on writing music. If there hadn't been the injury, would he have been able to make a name as a pianist? That seems unlikely. Even if he'd acquired the technique, he lacked the temperament. We get the best idea of the type of virtuosity he had in mind from one of his first compositions, the Toccata Op. 7 from 1833. It's a dazzling display, and with its rapid runs and chords, presents challenges to the best of pianists. But it's also the kind of display for its own sake that he never used again.  2. Schumann was a poet as well as a composer — and he held an exalted opinion of both. Actually, until he was about 20, he was leaning towards becoming a writer. He continued to write all his life, primarily as a music critic in the 1830s and '40s, but also writing occasional (and unpublished) poetry, plays, and short stories. One of the novelties of Schumann's music criticism was that some of it was written as if it were a short story. He developed a recurring cast of characters in the style of writers he admired — like Jean Paul Friedrich Richter and E.T.A. Hoffmann. Those same writers inspired several of his musical compositions, as he transferred to sound their literary style. The result was some of Schumann's most imaginative music, but it took a long time to find an appreciative audience. One of the most fascinating works of this type is Kreisleriana Op. 16 from 1838. The title comes from one of Hoffmann's fictional characters: Johannes Kreisler, a composer. Kreisler's temperament was bizarre, eccentric, frenzied — and much the same could be said of Schumann's musical portrait.  3. Schumann was not a talker. That could be exasperating for his friends, but not for someone who felt there was no such thing as an embarrassing silence. On one occasion a friend introduced him to the composer Félicien David. The conversation languished. "After a while," related the friend, "I was beginning to feel hot and uncomfortable, when Schumann turned and murmured to me: 'David doesn't seem to talk much.' 'No, not much,' I replied. 'I like that,' said Schumann with a gentle smile." His preference for few words helps to explain his love for quiet and fondness for walks in the countryside, enjoying the sounds of nature. Another friend recalled sharing one of those walks with Schumann. Schumann said not a word, save for "one comment, but it provided me with a glimpse into his inner nature. He spoke of the special beauty of such a summer afternoon, when all voices were silent, when nature itself was completely peaceful and quiet. He was deeply moved, and no

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Question: A Focused Look At Abdul Ghani Baradar, Who (For Now) Leads The Taliban

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Carter Malkasian, historian and former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, about Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and his talk with the CIA director.

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Dozens Killed By Suicide Bomber In Yemen. -- Pakistan Threatens To Overshadow NATO Summit. -- Eclipse Of The Sun: Did You Fall Into The Ring Of Fire's Path? -- Let's Remember Robin Gibb By Saying It: Bee Gees' Disco Years Were Great. Other stories in the news: -- "White House Visitor Logs Provide Window Into Lobbying Industry," Lobbyists Are "Regular Presence." (The Washington Post) -- "Lockerbie Bomber To Be Buried, Controversy Lives On." (Agence France Presse) -- "Strauss-Kahn Faces 'Gang Rape' Inquiry." (BBC News) -- "Chen Guangcheng's Family And Friends 'Still At Risk' In China." (The Guardian)


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Question: <i>The Brandon Teena Story</i>

David D'Arcy reports from New York on a new film and a documentary about the story of Teena Brandon. She was raped and murdered nearly six years ago after making an entire Nebraska community believe that she was a man. The movie is called Boys Don't Cry. The documentary is The Brandon Teena Story.

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Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the new movie Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya Sisterhood.


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Question: Health Care Financing Initiative Filed

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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.
The initiative asks voters to approve a financing plan to pay for the $14 billion a year reform proposal, and includes [...]

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Question: Later This Hour Martin

Later this hour Martin will be talking to members of the Juilliard String Quartet who are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. Here's a burst of that Juilliard sound, the finale from Haydn's String Quartet in D major, Op. 50, No. 6. It's also known as the "Frog" Quartet. (Sony Classical SMK 62708)

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Uncle Don's Ego; The 500 Million Dollar Man; Alexander Shamilton.


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Question: R. Eric Thomas, From ‘Deeply Shewk’ To A Viral Column

R. Eric Thomas’ life changed after he went viral on Facebook. He wrote a post comparing a photo of President Barack Obama, then Mexican-President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Marvel’s Avengers. Soon after, he became a columnist for Elle.com. Now, Thomas has released a collection of personal essays entitled “Here For It” in which he ponders celebrity in the age of the internet, influencer culture and more. He talked to The Washington Post about getting famous on the internet.
 I don’t know that it is possible to be famous online. At some point, it has to transfer into the real world where fame actually lives. Which is really disappointing for somebody like me, who’s like, “Oh, I’ve got like 35,000 followers, I should run for president!” No, I should not run for president. The idea of Twitter not being real life is, I think, really hard for some people to deal with.
 Why does he avoid writing for websites with comments sections? Does he feel safer in the city or the suburbs? We ask him for answers.

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NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich pens the weekly newsletter, Viking’s Choice. This week, host Peter O’Dowd checks in with Gotrich to see what he’s been listening to, ranging from fantasy power metal to ambient steel guitar. Music From The Segment Buggin, “Brainfreeze“ Emmanuelle Parrenin and Detlef Weinrich, “Zombie’s Passport“ Warrior Path, “His Wrath Will Fall“ Chuck Johnson, “Constellation” Dawn Richard, “Bussifame“ This article was originally published on WBUR.org.


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Question: TV Cameras In The Supreme Court? Republicans Are Divided; Barrett Says Maybe

Judge Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that she would "keep an open mind" about the prospect of admitting TV cameras to the Supreme Court — a subject that divides the panel. She gave that answer to one of the top Republicans on the committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has long supported more visibility into the high court's proceedings, including with 2015 legislation that would permit C-SPAN-like coverage of federal courts if judges chose. Grassley joked that he didn't expect the matter to be resolved "in my lifetime," but he stood by his long-held position that showing the workings of the court would help Americans better understand the judiciary. The high court has resisted that move, although it does release audio recordings of oral arguments and admits journalists and audience members. In May, the court livestreamed audio of the arguments for the first time. Another Republican on the panel, Nebraska's Ben Sasse, said on Wednesday he thought the court's current practices were appropriate.  Admitting TV coverage would lead to a lot of "nonsense," Sasse said, and although he said he agreed with Grassley that it's a good idea for the Supreme Court to reach out more to Americans, doing so with live coverage would be a "bad idea." The high court has been dubbed the apex of a "judicial monastery," and the least contemporary of the three branches of government set out by the Constitution. Sasse and Barrett talked on Tuesday about another aspect of those old practices — the reason why judges wear black robes.  Defenders of the court's current practices hail their closeness to those that would have been recognized by the framers of the Constitution or earlier generations of American leaders — and skeptics also point to the effect that TV cameras have had elsewhere in Washington. Televising White House press conferences turned them into "gotcha" theatrics, according to this school of thought, and critics have spent years discussing what they call the cheapening of the workings of the legislature by putting them on TV.  "It's probably the worst thing that has happened to the Congress," as Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, told USA Today in 2014.

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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: Heavy Winter Storm Wrecks Syrian Refugee Camps In Lebanon

Updated at 3:25 p.m. ET. Thousands of Syrian refugees have been forced from their tents in Lebanon, following days of bitter rain, snow and freezing temperatures. The winter storm, dubbed Norma by Lebanese meteorologists, has left refugees in dire need of emergency assistance, aid workers say. The storm hit Saturday and has affected at least "151 informal camps in Lebanon, which host 11,000 refugees," United Nations refugee agency spokeswoman Lisa Abou Khaled told NPR. She said at least 850 other makeshift shelter sites, which host a combined 70,000 refugees, are also at risk of being damaged from the bad winter weather. An 8-year-old Syrian girl died after falling into a river in the northern town of Minyeh, The Associated Press reported. Images of some of the camps give a glimpse of flooding and other impacts for families who fled violence in Syria to neighboring Lebanon. One video by Lebanese charity Sawa for Development and Aid shows a refugee in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley kneeling on a wooden pallet and rowing to safety using a mop. Mahmoud Said, 43, lives at the lowest level of a refugee settlement in Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border, with his wife and six children.  "My tent has been flooded now for five days. I am 10 meters [about 33 feet] from the river so all the mud, sewage, and trash from the river has come into my tent. This is not a way to live," Said said. He has difficulty moving because of back problems, he says, and is grateful to his neighbors who came to his rescue Tuesday night. They helped him throw away the little furniture he owned, which he says, were just some plastic chairs mattresses and blankets. "We have not been able to sleep. I don't know what I would've done without the help of my neighbors. They've been cooking for us and have helped us clean out one room for all my family to sleep in. We've been sharing one semi dry carpet they lent us," Said said. He says his youngest child Maha, 1 month old, is in danger from the flood. "This storm has made our tent so cold and dirty and wet and it has made my wife very sick, to the point where she isn't producing milk anymore." Mohammed Hamoud, a counselor with a local humanitarian relief group called Basmeh and Zeitooneh, was in the tent with Said to help him assess the damage. Hamoud said Said has not received medical care he needs. "He needs surgery, he has a hard time walking. Two of his other children are also sick, one of them has a speech impediment. It's just problem after problem after problem. ... A little more rain and snow and his tent would've collapsed on their heads," Hamoud said. There are more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to U.N. figures. Lebanon's government forbids official refugee camps for Syrians, so the only options they have are makeshift shelters mostly made out of scrap material. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says most of these refugees have "little or no financial resources ... and around 70 percent live below poverty line." UNHCR spokeswoman Abou Khaled says the agency and nongovernmental organizations in Lebanon have been distributing relief items to refugees affected by the storm. "We've been giving plastic sheets for damaged tents, mattresses, rubber boots and other goods because of the rain," Abou Khaled said. She said the UNHCR and its partners have also been teaming up with local municipalities to temporarily host some of the refugees in schools and mosques until they are back on their feet. Meanwhile, other families had to evacuate to different makeshift camps that were already overpopulated. Even before the storm, refugees were living in sub-standard conditions in the country, she says. In many of the camps, the tents are flimsy at best and are built on agricultural land that can easily flood. Winters are always difficult for refugees, Abou Khaled says. Temperatures in Lebanon can drop below freezing, which is why the agency tries to hand out supplies like extra blankets and heaters. But this winter has been especially bad, prompting emergency responses from humanitarian organizations, which are scrambling to find refugees a dry and warm shelter. "There were three people stuck in a tent. They were snowed in and among them were children. We had to to call the Red Crescent to save them," Abou Khaled said. Many refugees say the aid groups are not doing enough. Said says this is the second time his tent has flooded this year. He added, "You'll only believe it if you come here and witness it with your own eyes."

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- 6 Headlines That Tell The Story Of The Iowa Caucus Results. -- Teens Arrested In Mass Shooting At Seattle Homeless Camp. -- Groundhog Day 2016: Punxsutawney Phil Did Not See His Shadow. And here are more early headlines:  Obama, Speaker Ryan To Meet For Lunch, Discussion. (The Hill) Shuttle Diplomacy As Syrian Peace Talks Open. (New York Times) Syria Agrees "In Principle" To Allow Aid Into 3 Towns. (VOA) Heavy Winter Storm, Blizzard Conditions Moving Into Central U.S. (NWS) U.S. Airstrikes Destroy ISIS Radio Station In Eastern Afghanistan. (AP) Occupation Supporters Meet Angry Residents In Burns, Oregon Protest. (OPB) Puerto Rico Seeks Bond Restructuring To Ease Economic Crisis. (AP)


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Question: Feds Reject Barstow Casino Plan

Another big blow was struck late last week against the embattled plan for tribal gambling in the desert city of Barstow, as federal officials rejected the land applications of two out-of-the area tribes.
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Question: Iowa Caucuses: Report from McCain Campaign

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NPR's Audie Cornish is in New Hampshire, covering the campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

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Question: Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview

For much of the past decade, journalist Rachel Maddow has hosted her own radio and TV shows. And for much of that time, the popular MSNBC host has been thinking about how the United States uses military force — and how it starts and end wars. Maddow's new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power traces how U.S. national intelligence agencies have taken over duties that were once assigned to the military, and how this shift has increased the public disconnect from the consequences of war. "Politically, secrecy is a great excuse," Maddow tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public." That lack of accountability, says Maddow, lets America's national defense operate without public oversight or knowledge. "When things are done in secret in our name, we can be held accountable for them, even if we can't hold accountable our government for directing it," she says. "And that feels very un-American to me." Using intelligence agencies and private contractors has also increasingly disconnected the American public from the consequences of war, says Maddow. "I don't think anybody set out to make us so divorced from the wars that we wage," she says. "But all of these little tweaks — all of these little changes that we made — had the effect of letting a president wage war without political restraint and letting us wage war in a way where we didn't necessarily notice or know the names of all of those who were deployed in our name. Because a lot of them were working for companies that didn't have any obligation to report to us when their people were killed. We ended up doing stuff in a way that insulated the American public from what our military was doing to the point where we don't feel much friction when Americans go downrange." Maddow says she grew up in a household where public service and military service were both respected. Her father served in Vietnam and left the service a year before she was born. "A lot of members of my family have served, a lot of people I grew up with served," she says. "I think had it been legal for openly gay people to serve in the military in the time I might have been considering signing up. I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me." Breaking Into Media Maddow broke into the broadcasting business after graduate school, while she was living in western Massachusetts and taking on odd jobs while finishing up her doctoral dissertation. One day, her friends told her that the local morning radio show was looking for a person to read wire copy on air. She called the station, passed a test and was asked to come in for an audition. "They asked me to come in and just rip and read some AP news wire stuff, and I did it and I remember the host said to me, 'What have you been doing as your job?' And I said, 'Unloading trucks.' And he said, 'From what?' And I said, 'Bigger trucks.' And they said, 'You're hired,' " she says. "I got the joke, and I could read. So I got the job and I started the next day, and that was my first job in radio." But Maddow didn't have plans to stay in the media. She had been working as an AIDS activist for a decade and assumed she would return to activism after her dissertation was finished. "I did [radio] for exactly one year, and I needed to get my dissertation done," she says. "And I did my grad school in England, and I traveled to England to defend my dissertation and it went successfully, and that was a few weeks before 9/11. I came back, 9/11 happened and I found myself, surprisingly ... really wanting to get back on the radio." Maddow started calling local radio stations and asking if she could pick up a shift here and there. She then moved to Air America, where she hosted Unfiltered and The Rachel Maddow Show, a two-hour daily radio program. 'The Rachel Maddow Show' In 2008, Maddow started hosting The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. The nightly news show features an opening essay on a news topic, commentators discussing important news events, interviews related to news and culture, and segments highlighting stories that otherwise might go unnoticed. Maddow also often challenges guests who offer themselves as experts without having the facts to back their statements up. "People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts," she says. "It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it." But even when Maddow disagrees with a guest, she says, she makes a point to thank them and wish them good luck at the end of each segment. "If I brought somebody into the discussion, it's because I believe they are w

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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: Breastaurant Biker Brawl, H2 Oh No!. The Late Great Late Night.


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The provided query could be "['Represent the subtitle to find a news title on NPR with less details:', 'Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a likely candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said today there appears to be "credible" evidence of fraud in the 2008 Senate race between Al Franken (D) and the man he unseated, Norm Coleman (R).\xa0 That contest wasn\'t decided until June of 2009, when after countless recounts and court battles Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. MinnPost.com quotes Pawlenty at the end of an appearance today on the Fox News Channel, where he was asked about reports of nearly 1,000 convicted felons voting illegally in the 2008 election.\xa0 (The allegation initially came from a conservative group called Minnesota Majority.)  “There’s a group out here in Minnesota that’s investigated that,” Pawlenty  said. “They seem to have found credible evidence that many felons who are not  supposed to be voting actually voted in the Franken-Coleman election.” He said he suspects that any illegally voting felons might have favored  Franken, but hastened to add: "I don\'t know that." But if true, he said, "it may have flipped the election."  Michael O\'Brien, writing on The Hill\'s Blog Briefing Room, quotes Marc Elias, who handled Franken\'s legal team during the recount, as saying "that both Coleman and Franken’s attorneys brought forth all evidence in a  process that was fully litigated before Franken was declared victor":  “Sen.  Coleman was represented by some of the best lawyers there are in the country,”  Elias said Wednesday. “At the end of that process, the lead lawyer for Sen.  Coleman told the state Supreme Court that there was no evidence of persistent  fraud in the election.”  O\'Brien had a suggested explanation for Pawlenty\'s comments:  The  aspersions toward Franken’s victory could be politically motivated for Pawlenty,  a possible Republican candidate for president who will need to appeal to  conservatives actively participating in the GOP’s primaries. Franken is a figure  who’s generally reviled by many of those primary voters.']" and the positive "['Represent this short title to find a subtitle that might be right below it on NPR', 'Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty Suggests Fraud In Franken-Coleman Election Result']"

We’re going to be hearing a lot about Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker is now Acting Attorney General, filling in for Jeff Sessions, who was forced out Wednesday. And it’s likely Whitaker’s appointment will change how the White House handles the Russia investigation. As NPR reports, “Whitaker has not been a fan” of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, led by Robert Mueller:  “Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing,” Whitaker wrote in an op-ed last year before he came to work for the government. He called for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller and who has been supervising his work, to curb the investigation. Now Whitaker is in charge of the Justice Department and Rosenstein reports to him, putting Whitaker in a position to constrain the special counsel if he wishes or if he’s directed to do so by the president.  Read Matthew Whitaker’s op-ed, in which he suggests that Mueller’s investigation of President Trump is going too far by looking into Trump’s finances related to the Trump organization Sessions’ firing came a day after Democrats retook the House of Representatives in midterm elections. And the president is clearly not a fan of the prospects that he will face more thorough investigations from that chamber.
If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at the Senate level. Two can play that game! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018   That much was clear in a doozy of a press conference the president gave Wednesday. Apart from a million gifs and tweets, the press conference resulted in CNN’s Jim Acosta having his White House access limited. In other news news, Fox News host Sean Hannity faced criticism, including some from his colleagues for speaking at a rally with President Trump on the eve of the midterm elections. And new information came to light this week that Motel 6 “gave guest lists to Immigration and Customs enforcement ages,” as NPR reports.  Motel 6 has acknowledged that guest lists were given to authorities but denied that senior management was aware of the practice. As of last fall, the company said it had called for all locations to stop sharing guest lists with ICE. News of the practice first broke last September when the Phoenix New Times investigated two corporate-owned Motel 6 locations in Phoenix. One anonymous hotel clerk told the alt-weekly, “We send a report every morning to ICE — all the names of everybody that comes in … we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE.”  The chain is paying out millions in a settlement. We’ll get to this and the week’s other top stories in the News Roundup. GUESTS Eliana Johnson, White House reporter, Politico; @elianayjohnson Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington correspondent, The New York Times;  @sherylnyt Asawin Suebsaeng, White House reporter, The Daily Beast; @swin24 For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2018 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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If it's Wednesday, it's time for the Political Junkie segment on Talk of the Nation. The focus in Washington is on the interrogation policies of the Bush administration and whether officials behind that policy should be subject to prosecution. We've gotten mixed messages from the Obama administration on that one. Plus: Dick Cheney rallies the opposition to President Obama (and to the delight of the DNC), Jane Harman under the microscope, Kathleen Sebelius gets closer to the Cabinet, Norm Coleman files his appeal, and Rod Blagojevich won't be allowed to be dropped into the jungle of Costa Rica -- as much as we'd like him to be. Join host Neal Conan and me every Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for the Junkie segment on TOTN, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes. And you can win a Political Junkie T-shirt! By the way, TOTN's David Gura has put together a photo gallery of previous T-shirt winners that will constantly be updated ... though not if Tom Wieder of Ann Arbor, Mich., keeps winning. He was the first correct answer two weeks in a row! (We've got to get caller ID.) Last week's segment can be heard here. If your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD Radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).

Stories: 1) Seymour Hersh: Obama To Spotlight Syria 2) The Ghost Of Populism Walks Again — Again


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Host Rachel Martin speaks with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about disaster response in New York and New Jersey. Napolitano says restoring power is a high priority and the federal and state governments are taking steps to provide much-needed gasoline.

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Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Dozens Killed By Suicide Bomber In Yemen. -- Pakistan Threatens To Overshadow NATO Summit. -- Eclipse Of The Sun: Did You Fall Into The Ring Of Fire's Path? -- Let's Remember Robin Gibb By Saying It: Bee Gees' Disco Years Were Great. Other stories in the news: -- "White House Visitor Logs Provide Window Into Lobbying Industry," Lobbyists Are "Regular Presence." (The Washington Post) -- "Lockerbie Bomber To Be Buried, Controversy Lives On." (Agence France Presse) -- "Strauss-Kahn Faces 'Gang Rape' Inquiry." (BBC News) -- "Chen Guangcheng's Family And Friends 'Still At Risk' In China." (The Guardian)


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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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Facing the threat posed by Gustav, New Orleans is trying to balance an evacuation plan with the need to not cause panic. Mark Schleifstein, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, says models show the storm strengthening and potentially hitting New Orleans as a hurricane Monday.

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Good afternoon. Sorry for being late in our daily roundup. Here's what has been happening so far today: -- Search For Missing Jet Focuses On Objects Seen Off Australia -- Ukrainian Troops' Departure From Crimea Isn't A Simple Matter -- U.S. Adds To Sanctions On Russian Officials -- Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies -- Reprimand, $20K Fine, No Jail Time For General's Misconduct -- Jobless Claims Stay Toward Lower End Of Recent Range -- Book News: Meg Wolitzer To Publish A YA Novel Inspired By Sylvia Plath


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With schools temporarily closed and many adults recently unemployed or working from home, parents with school-age children have been thrust into a new reality. Many parents have found the transition to be stressful, but parents of children with special needs have faced a particular set of challenges. Students with autism, developmental delays, intellectual disabilities, and emotional disturbances each accounted for between 5 and 10 percent of students in the school system. Now that the dedicated team of teachers and behavioral therapist that many families depend on are no longer available, parents are having to get creative at home to ensure their children stay on track. We talk about the issues facing these families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This week the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival features high school contributors. Jennifer Steele and Laura Mandelberg are two of the writers featured in the 10th annual Young Poets Competition, co-sponsored by the festival. They read from their poems for Weekend Edition.

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A long-anticipated international convoy carrying desperately needed aid to Daraya, a besieged suburb of Damascus, was refused entry by Syrian government forces. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations said in a joint statement that the convoy was refused entry "at the last government checkpoint, despite having obtained prior clearance by all parties that it could proceed." The U.N. later released a statement saying that the mission was aborted "because the convoy was refused entry, due to the medical and nutritional supplies on board." It called the conditions imposed by government security personnel "unacceptable" and "contrary to earlier guarantees and approvals obtained by the Syrian government." Daraya is "probably the place in Syria where the greatest unmet needs exist," Jan Egeland, special adviser to the U.N. special envoy for Syria, told reporters before the convoy was turned back. NPR's Alison Meuse tells our Newscast unit that the convoy would have been "the first since Daraya fell under siege in November 2012." She says authorities only approved limited items, "including vaccines and baby formula." Here's more from Alison:  "An activist on the ground says regime forces shelled the area where people had gathered to wait for the aid, killing a man and his grown son. Footage purports to show the mangled bodies being carried away against a backdrop of absolute destruction."  The Red Cross continues to push for access. "Communities in Daraya are in need of everything, and it's tragic that even the basics we were bringing today are being delayed unnecessarily. We must be able to provide aid impartially and safely," Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC in Syria, said in a statement. She adds: "There must be minimum conditions for independent humanitarian action in Syria. Today those conditions were not met. We urge the responsible parties to grant us this access immediately." The suburb's population is "between 4,000 and 8,000 people, down from over 70,000 before the war," The Associated Press reported, citing U.N. figures. As we have reported, multiple parties to the conflict in Syria are using siege tactics as a weapon of war. The U.N. says at least 255,250 people are besieged across Syria in at least 18 locations.

Good morning - here are our early stories: Obama, Romney Trade Jokes; Critics Aim At Obama's 'Optimal' Comment. Malala Stands For First Time Since Being Shot By Taliban, Doctors Say. And these headlines: Ill. Rep. Joe Walsh Says Abortions Not Needed To Save Women's Lives. (Politico) Syrian Jets Drop Cluster Bombs On Rebel Town, Killing Civilians. (AFP) Turkey Retaliates Again After Syrian Shells Fall Into Its Territory. (Al-Arabiya) North And South Korea Trade War Threats Over Provocative Leaflets. (Korea Times) Following Alleged Rape, Curfew Imposed On All U.S. Military Personnel In Japan. (Stars and Stripes) Amtrak High Speed Train To Travel 110 MPH In Illinois Today In Midwest. (AP) Sandusky Seeks New Trial, Claims Insufficient Evidence To Convict Him. (CNN)


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Question: Fast-Moving Wildfire Destroys 80% Of Small Town In Eastern Washington State

Updated at 3 p.m. ET Almost every structure in the small farming town of Malden in eastern Washington state was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire Monday as high winds created what officials described as a firestorm. According to the Whitman County Sheriff's Office, 80% of the town's structures were destroyed. The town of about 200 people is 35 miles south of Spokane in an agricultural region known as the Palouse. "The scale of this disaster really can't be expressed in words," Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers said in a statement. "The fire will be extinguished, but a community has been changed for a lifetime. I just hope we don't find the fire took more than homes and buildings. I pray everyone got out in time." As of early Tuesday, there were no reports of injuries from the wildfire that swept through Malden. Officials said the fire was fueled by high winds of up to 45 mph, standing timber and dry fields. Deputies went door to door and used public-address systems on their patrol vehicles to tell residents to evacuate the area immediately. Within hours, most of the small town had burned to the ground. Malden lost its fire station, post office, City Hall, library and most of its homes, according to the sheriff's office. Myers said he believed all residents in the area had safely fled but couldn't be sure, according to The Spokesman-Review. "The fire was too hot and too quick to even get a count," Myers said. Malden was not alone in seeing catastrophe on Labor Day — a day Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz described as heartbreaking and surreal as a result of the intensity of wildfires and the speed with which they spread. "Today alone, almost 300,000 acres in Washington have burned," Franz said via social media channels. "Thousands of homes are without power. Many families have had to evacuate their homes and many homes have been lost." "At least 80 fires started in Washington in what officials call a historic fire event," as Spokane Public Radio reported. Authorities are still taking stock in Whitman County, where the local emergency management agency, the sheriff's office and fire officials planned to inventory buildings and attempt to contact and account for all residents on Tuesday. Most of Washington remains under red flag warnings because of the high risk of wildfires. The National Weather Service has declared part of the state and parts of western Oregon as "extremely critical" fire areas. "We're expecting east winds and extreme fire danger over the next two days," Franz said. The wind poses a double threat as it can quickly propel fires and also frustrate attempts to fight them. The Cold Springs Fire sprinted 60 miles across Okanogan and Douglas counties in just 20 hours, Spokane Public Radio reported. And the winds drove a mass of smoke and sand into the air, forcing officials to ground firefighting planes and helicopters. "Really our actions are limited to keeping people out of harm's way and working the edges of the fire as best we can," Russ Lane, a fire manager with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, told the Spokane station. In addition to Washington and Oregon, parts of California, Arizona and Nevada are seeing "critical fire-weather conditions," the National Weather Service said, citing an ongoing heat wave, dry fuels and strong winds that could gust to above 60 mph in some areas. As of Tuesday morning, at least nine large fires were burning in Washington state, Franz said. Clouds of thick smoke from the wildfires have been driven west toward Puget Sound and coastal areas, prompting a number of people to make emergency calls to the King County Sheriff's Office, as NPR member station KUOW reports.   The prevalence and health risks of smoky air are being compounded by a number of factors, from homes that lack air conditioning to officials' reluctance to open "smoke shelters" because of the coronavirus. KUOW has published a list of tips to help people reduce the amount of unhealthy smoke in their homes.  Franz and other officials are pleading with residents to avoid any activities that could cause sparks and ignite a new blaze. "We're still seeing new fire starts in every corner of the state," Franz said. She added that 90% of the wildfires in Washington's recorded history have been caused by people.

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Good morning (and our apologies for being late with this). Some of our early headlines: -- Judge Says Nidal Hasan Can Represent Himself In Fort Hood Trial -- Report: NSA Is Searching 'Vast Amounts' Of Americans' Emails -- 'Total Disgrace': Jackie Robinson Statue Defaced In Brooklyn -- 'New York Times' Is Not For Sale, Sulzberger Says -- Fannie Mae Books $10.1 Billion In Second-Quarter Profits -- 3 Winning Powerball Tickets Sold: 2 In N.J., 1 In Minnesota -- Burglars Return Loot To Group That Helps Sex Assault Victims -- Stars And Stripes: Pair Of Sumatran Tigers Born At National Zoo -- World-Record Snakehead Fish Caught In U.S. Other stories in the news: -- Wildfire In Southern California "Grows To 10,000 Acres; One Person Burned 'Head To Toe.' " (Los Angeles Times) -- 4 Killed, 4 Wounded In Dallas-area Shooting Rampage. (The Dallas Morning News) -- "Suspect's Vehicle In California Murder-abduction Case Seen In Oregon." (Reuters) -- Suicide Bomber In Quetta, Pakistan, Kills At Least 28. (BBC News)


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This week on Car Talk, from the wreckage of an old MG comes a new superhero, "Captain Destructo," ready to dope-slap stinko drivers--if he can ever get his car to run. Meanwhile, with Valentine's Day approaching, is it time for Beth to dump her boyfriend, after he unjustly accused her of damaging his Mustang? Elsewhere, Albee wants to sell his car to his mother-in-law, but may need to travel from Boston to Florida every month to change its bad spark plug. And, Roger's Toyota is emitting "Biblical" proportions of smoke after some oil changes. Is its "End Times" near? Also, should Donna leave her car running an extra 15 minutes on very cold nights to recharge the battery? What if 15 minutes turned into overnight, after her husband forgot to shut the car off? All this and more, this week on Car Talk.

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Question: Top Stories: Mass Shooting At Colo. Theater; Top Syrian Official Dies

It's Friday, and we're following these stories: Real-Life Horror: Many Killed, Dozens Wounded At Colorado Movie Theater. Syrian Intelligence Official Dies From Damascus Bombing; 4th Assad Aide To Perish. (Reuters) Syria Denies Russian Envoy's Statement That Assad Ready To Step Down. (RiaNovosti) European Finance Ministers Prepared To Offer Spain Bailout Loan. (Irish Times) Russian Police Arrest 4 In Murders Of Russian Muslim Leaders. (BBC) Non-Muslims In Saudi Arabia Must Observe Ramadan Fasting Traditions, Or Leave. (AP) South Korea Increases Readiness After North Korea Shakes Up Military Leadership. (VOA) Viacom, DirecTV Settle Fee Dispute; 17 Darkened Channels Will Be Restored. (CNET) Racial Profiling Case Against Arizona Sheriff Opens In Federal Court. (Los Angeles Times) Australia Reviews Travel Policies After Male Olympic Basketball Players Fly In Business Class While Women Take Economy. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Happy Friday! We're looking at these stories this morning: Economy Slowed Further In Second Quarter.  Derecho, the Sequel: Storm Roars Over Pennsylvania And New York. In London, The Games Are Afoot. Activists Report Heavy Fighting In Aleppo, Syria's Largest City. (VOA) Chinese Woman Accused Of Poisoning British Man Is Held Incommunicado By Chinese Police. (Washington Post) China Orders Limit To Flooding Coverage After Outraged Victims Start Compiling Private Death Tolls. (AP) Afghan Militant Attacks Against NATO Forces Rose 11% In The Past Three Months. (AP) Cyprus Officials To Charge Man With Plotting Terrorism, Had Tracked Israeli Tourists. (Cyprus Mail) Ousted Head Of Oldest Black U.S. Fraternity Seeks His Job Back In A Georgia Court. (Atlanta Journal Constitution) Bird Hits Boy In The Face On Six Flags Coaster, Causing Minor Injuries. (Asbury Park Press)


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Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights lawyer and the first black woman appointed to be a federal judge, died Wednesday in New York at age 84. Juan Williams remembers Motley.

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From one of Ted's recommended recordings, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a setting of the 121st Psalm, part of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. The recording was made in St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, the magnificent space for which Monteverdi composed his music. (Archiv 429 565-2)

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Larry Thomas reviews the new George Clooney film, Michael Clayton.

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Paul MacCready Jr., known as the "father of human-powered flight," for designing the first aircraft to make a sustained, controlled flight powered solely by a human, has died. He was 81.  Bryan Allen, a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks with Melissa Block. Allen was the pilot for MacCready's Gossamer Condor, which logged a 7 1/2-minute flight, and for his Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the English Channel. MELISSA BLOCK, host:  Paul MacCready invented flying machines and gave them wonderful names - the Gossamer Condor, the Bionic Bat. MacCready died on Tuesday. He was 81. He was an aeronautical engineer, also a pilot - he got his license when he was 16 - and he was a soaring champion on glider planes. MacCready made aviation history in 1977 when he created the first successful human-powered airplane. That was the Gossamer Condor, made out of aluminum tubing, cardboard, Mylar and piano wire. It weighed just 55 pounds, took seven minutes to go about a mile, and it was powered by a furiously pedaling pilot. The pilot was Bryan Allen.  Mr. BRYAN ALLEN (Pilot, Gossamer Condor): Just imagine a hundred-foot wingspan with very large swept wings. It's covered with a clear material that looks just kind of like Saran Wrap. It has a whole maze of very thin, very small wires. And because of all these bracing wires, it's all pretty tall, too. So the whole thing stands a couple of stories high. It was like 18 feet high and 30 feet long, and about a hundred foot wingspan.  BLOCK: Well, the name of the plane gives it away, I guess, but I've read that Paul MacCready got the idea, the thinking behind how he would design this by watching birds in flight.  Mr. ALLEN: Yeah. MacCready had a very extensive background in aeronautics and aviation and soaring and stuff like that, and had also been one of the real pioneers of the development of hang gliding in early '70s. And so, kind of combining all those with his knowledge of birds and his knowledge of theory, he was able to come to an understanding about how to build a human-powered airplane that, apparently, other people had not - it was not obvious to other people.  BLOCK: After that historic prize-winning flight in 1977, two years later, you're back in a new version - the Gossamer Albatross. Trying to get across the English Channel, 22 miles.  Mr. ALLEN: Yeah. And both the Condor and the Albatross were driven by the presence of prizes that were put up by an English industrialist named Henry Kremer. When we won the first Kremer prize in 1977, then almost immediately, another prize has put up for flying from England to France. And I think the expectation of just about everybody around the world was that it was going to take another 20 or 30 years to win that one. The reality, though, was that we just had to make a cleaner, more high-tech version of the Gossamer Condor and then instead of only being able to fly for a mile, it would be able to fly for distances of 20 or 30 miles.  BLOCK: That doesn't sound self-evident. I mean, that's a huge, that's a huge difference.  Mr. ALLEN: It's not self-evident, and that was part of MacCready's genius, was that he was able to see quite complicated things, but kind of pare them down to their essence. And most people, including myself, typically get kind of wound up in the details, and he was one of those people that could be very detail-oriented, but yet at the same time very much see the big picture and strip it down to its essence.  BLOCK: I've seen a picture of you on this flight over the English Channel and you are barely off the water. You look like you're practically skimming the surface.  Mr. ALLEN: There's an advantage in flying close to the water. You take a little less power - and this is something that a lot of sea birds will do - is actually fly very close to the water in which you call ground effect. So there's an advantage there but there's also a disadvantage on the pilot's point of view. You have to be really on top of the plane all the time.  BLOCK: Did Paul MacCready's planes - did they change aviation in some way?  Mr. ALLEN: I think they have and I think they will continue to have a pretty powerful effect on aviation. One of the crafts that Doctor MacCready's company, AeroVironment, built as a kind of a follow-on was a solar-powered airplane called the Solar Challenger, which was a completely solar-powered airplane. And spin-offs from that then actually led to a plane that just a few years ago - a plane called Helios, which was a nonmanned airplane that flew up to very near to 100,000 feet. That's actually the highest that any fixed wing aircraft has ever sustained flight.  So, a lot of the things that Paul did are, I think, pointing towards a future of sustainability and pointing towards a future of doing more with less. That was kind of a slogan of his - was to figure out how you can actually do what you want to do, but yet at the same time, do it with a lot less

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

(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: Feds Reject Barstow Casino Plan

Another big blow was struck late last week against the embattled plan for tribal gambling in the desert city of Barstow, as federal officials rejected the land applications of two out-of-the area tribes.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior rejected requests from both the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and the [...]

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San Diego County Sues to Overturn Legal Marijuana. High School Exit Exam Settlement. End Music.


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Question: NHL Cancels Games Through Oct. 24

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The National Hockey League today officially canceled games scheduled through Oct. 24 as players and management remain at odds over a new contract. We like hockey. We suspect some of you do too. But we have to wonder whether missing some of what's become a very long regular season will matter all that much to most fans. Plus, the conventional wisdom seems to be that the two sides will likely reach agreement in time to save the Jan. 1 Winter Classic game in Michigan between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs. The NBA and its players did basically the same thing last season, when they settled their contract differences in time to kick off the season on Christmas Day. So have faith, hockey fans. You probably won't have to suffer through a repeat of what happened in 2004-05, when a whole season was lost to a contract dispute. And besides: the World Series is coming up, the NFL season is in full swing and the NBA is going to start on time this year.

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Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Trayvon Martin Case: Voice Calling For Help Isn't Zimmerman's, Experts Say. -- Mega Millions Mystery: Who Won? -- Bin Laden's Wives, Daughters Sentenced To 45 Days Detention, Deportation. Other stories in the news: -- "1.5 Million Card Numbers At Risk From Hack." (CNNMoney.com) -- "Plane Carrying 43 Crashes In Siberia; 31 Dead." (The Associated Press) -- "Suu Kyi Hails 'Triumph Of The People' After Myanmar Election Win." (MSNBC.com) -- Public Policy Polling Survey Puts Romney Ahead By 7 Points In Wisconsin. (Politico) -- Kansas, Kentucky Tip Off At 9:23 ET In Men's NCAA Basketball Final. (CBSSports.com) -- "Notre Dame, Baylor To Meet For NCAA Women's Final." (The Associated Press)


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Question: Stories off the sidewalk

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For several years, StoryCorps booths have allowed ordinary people relate their own stories to be preserved in a huge and growing collection in the Library of Congress.

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From the first weekend of the Hampden-Sydney Festival in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, festival director and clarinetist Ethan Sloane joins members of the Leontovych String Quartet in the Quartet in E-flat for Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Cello by Johann Nepomuk Hummel. (Thompson Audio Services)

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Later this hour Martin talks to the author of a new biography of pianist Arthur Rubenstein. Here's a taste of the master in his prime, playing a Nocturne by one of his favorite composers, Frederic Chopin: Op. 32, No. 1 in B. (RCA 5613-2-RC)

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Question: Pets And Owners Form A Mutually Beneficial Bond

A growing field of medical research aims to pinpoint exactly why pets can make us happier and healthier. Some studies show that animal interaction can increase a person's level of oxytocin, a hormone associated with love and trust. And the animals also benefit from positive human interaction.

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Question: In Haiti, American Red Cross Exhausts Medical Supplies

The American Red Cross says its staffers in Haiti have run out of medical supplies. The Associated Press reports:  WASHINGTON (AP) - A spokesman for the American Red Cross says the aid organization has run out of medical supplies in Haiti.   Red Cross spokesman Eric Porterfield said Wednesday that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies that were available in Haiti has been distributed.   The Red Cross is sending more medical supplies to Haiti, but Porterfield says he does not know when they will arrive.   Porterfield says he doesn't know if the depletion of medical supplies is preventing victims in critical condition from being treated.  Read More >> In a press release the ARC issued Wednesday, it details some of its early disaster response:  The Red Cross is contributing an initial $1 million from the International Response Fund to support the relief operation, and has opened its warehouse in Panama to provide tarps, mosquito nets and cooking sets for approximately 5,000 families.   In addition to Red Cross staff already in Haiti, six disaster management specialists are being deployed to the disaster zone to help coordinate relief efforts. At this time, the American Red Cross is only deploying volunteers specially trained to manage international emergency operations.   There has been an outpouring of support from the public. To help, people can make an unrestricted donation to the International Response Fund at www.redcross.org or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS (1-800-733-2767). The public can also help by texting "Haiti" to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross, through an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.

Good morning, we're looking at these stories today: Assad Names New Prime Minister, Fighting Continues In Aleppo. Done In a Day: China Wraps Up Murder Trial Of Once-Prominent Politician's Wife. Gunmen Attack Egyptian Police Station In Sinai; Follows Militant Attack On Egyptian Border Post. (UPI) George Zimmerman To Seek New 'Stand Your Ground' Hearing In Case Of Shooting Of Treyvon Martin. (Central Florida News) Home Foreclosures Fell In July, But More Homes Started The Foreclosure Process. (Philadelphia Inquirer) U.S. Assists In Agent Orange Cleanup Project In Vietnam. (Reuters) Russia's Prime Minister To Publically Blame Officials Responsible For Failed Satellite Launch. (RIA Novosti) Sick American Rescued From Antarctica Research Station, Flown To New Zealand. (ABC) Homeless Miami Man Describes Cannibalistic Attack That Destroyed Parts Of His Face. (Miami Herald) Oscar Pistorious, South African 'Blade Runner', Denied Chance To Run In Olympic Relay. (BBC)


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Question: Software industry wants consumers to rat on software pirates who sell on eBay

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Software industry offers a bounty for turning in software pirates who sell their counterfit goods on eBay

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Two weeks ago, the Recording Industry Association of America announced plans to sue music fans who illegally swap copyright songs online.  But some techies are already working on programs that help people share files while evading the recording industry. Laura Sydell reports.


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Farai Chideya and producer/editor Christopher Johnson read from listeners' letters.  The two respond to feedback about our coverage of the Bush economic stimulus package, our interview with the author of Body Drama, and a recent conversation about black stereotypes in film. FARAI CHIDEYA, host:  And now it's time for your letters. Joining me now to sort through the mail is our producer and editor, Christopher Johnson. Hey, Christopher, what have we got today?  CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: Well, we got a couple letters about our guest Boyce Watkins. The Syracuse University finance professor talked about the new economic-stimulus package. Boyce explained how the plan will impact the working poor.  Mr. BOYCE WATKINS (Syracuse University): I don't think they're going to benefit that much in the long term in the areas that really matter. Basically the stimulus package is designed to do one thing: to get money in the hands of poor and middle-class people so that they will spend it and throw it right back into the economy, and we're saying rather than taking that money and spending it as they want you to, save it or invest it or do something different with your money.  JOHNSON: Robert Gable(ph) in Berkeley, California heard the interview with Boyce, and he send us this. You generally have very good commentators. However, Boyce Watkins throws in gratuitous racial references. For example, he talked about rich white folks telling poor people about the recession. Rich black folks would have probably been just as tardy in noticing the recession.  CHIDEYA: And earlier this week I spoke with Nancy Amanda Redd. The former Miss Virginia has a new book called "Body Drama." It's aimed at teenage girls working through body image issues. Jeanine Brewer(ph) in Myersville, Maryland heard our talk and she wrote us this. If Nancy Amanda Redd was truly on a mission to help women and girls with body image difficulties, she should put some of her effort toward ending the so-called beauty contest that she took part in.  JOHNSON: Also we screwed up our story last week about black stereotypes in film. Listener Kamasi Hill(ph) in Chicago caught our goof. Kamasi writes: It was stated that Michael Clarke Duncan won an Oscar 60 years after Hattie McDaniel. The truth is he was nominated, but he never won.  Now, Farai, according to the Oscar awards online database, Kamasi is right. In 2000, Michael Clarke Duncan was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in "The Green Mile," but Michael Caine won the award for his role as Dr. Wilbur Larch in "The Cider House Rules."  CHIDEYA: Well, our apologies, and thanks for catching it. And finally, earlier this week I spoke with independent reporter Bob Butler. He has done a series of reports about how climate change is affecting the West African nation of Senegal. Listener Michelle Higgins(ph) wrote in about my talk with Bob and NPR's ongoing coverage of climate change. Michelle says: In the report on global warming in Senegal, Farai wondered if people cared, if they were plugging in. I wanted her to know that at that very moment I had my map pulled out. I was marking the events being discussed as notes near Senegal on the map. Yes, we do care, and this series helps us learn more and become more connected. Keep it up.  JOHNSON: That's it for letters, but please keep your coming.  CHIDEYA: To write us, just log on to npr.org and click on contact us. Please be sure to tell us where you're writing from and how to pronounce your name, and as always, thanks, Christopher.  JOHNSON: You're welcome, Farai.

In the aftermath of catastrophic events such as a mass shooting or natural disaster, politicians often offer up their thoughts and prayers to victims. Critics then hit back, condemning the phrase as meaningless — with no real value or impact. Now a new study from economists finds that prayers might have an actual dollar value, and they may also have real consequences for charitable giving in the wake of catastrophe, but not in the way you might think. Source: Thunström, Linda and Shiri Noy, "The Value of Thoughts and Prayers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.  Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, PocketCasts and NPR One.