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Question: The Star Of Bethlehem And The Magi: Myth Or Reality?

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Trying to relate biblical narrative to actual historical events is a complex field of scholarship that attracts interest both from inside and outside academia. The purpose here is multifaceted, from the believer historian or astronomer who wants to prove that there is a connection, to the nonbeliever who wants to disprove any such thing. In the middle, there are those who want to investigate the historical and, often, the astronomical data in search of phenomena or events that justify a biblical mention. Chief among such events is the appearance, as mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, of the Star of Bethlehem illuminating the skies to the birth of young Jesus and guiding the Three Wise Men from the East toward his birthplace. A recent book, The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, edited by astronomer Peter Barthel and theologian George van Kooten, collects interdisciplinary perspectives from experts on the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and modern astronomy. The book is the proceedings of an international conference that took place in 2014 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Largely, the articles are a response to a previous study by astronomer Michael Molnar, published in his 1999 book The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi, where he claims that the star was an actual astronomical event, namely the appearance of Jupiter in conjunction with the sun, the moon, and Saturn in the constellation of Aries — which modern celestial mechanics calculations show occurred on April 17 in the year B.C. 6. According to Molnar, astrologers would interpret such celestial event as a major portent, signaling a sort of royal birth. Couple that with the expectation of a Messiah born from the house of David, and the connection between a celestial event and the actual birth was justified. According to Molnar, the Three Wise Men were actually (Persian? Arabian?) astrologers well-versed in the motion of the skies and, hence, keen to see such powerful astrological sign vindicated in reality. Barthel and Kooten summarize the results of their conference into four questions: What? (the astronomical phenomena); When? (the chronology of events); How? (the role of astronomy and astrology); Why? (the evangelist's motivation). On the nature of the astronomical phenomena, there was complete agreement with Molnar, qualified agreement and radical disagreement. On the "when," most agreed that Jesus's birth took place between B.C. 7 and B.C. 5. On the "how," there was mostly disagreement as to the intentions and interpretations of astrologers from different regions in the Middle East. One particular difficulty was to justify the appearance of only three "wise men," given the supposed power of the celestial portent. Why not a multitude? As for the "why," Matthew was the one evangelist that considered celestial portents seriously, as they indeed colored his narrative throughout. For example, for the end of time prophecy he would write (Matthew 24:29): "the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heaven will be shaken." Matthew saw prophecy mirrored in the skies. Although opinions diverge, it seems that celestial events did occur around the birth of Jesus. The problem is that they often do, some more spectacular than others. To the extent that they provide context to a religious narrative, there is a confluence between myth-building and expectation, the skies being the realm of God and thus sacred, sending us signals of what is to come. If nothing else, the Star of Bethlehem tells us of a time when looking up to the skies in awe and wonder was part of people's lives, something few of us relate to nowadays. Christmas offers the perfect context for us to rekindle this ancient connection.  Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and writer — and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is the director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, co-founder of 13.7 and an active promoter of science to the general public. His latest book is The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. You can keep up with Marcelo on Facebook and Twitter: @mgleiser

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Question: Obama: U.S. Still On Road To 2011 Iraq Exit

Following a meeting with the visiting Iraqi head of state, President Barack Obama expressed confidence that the U.S. is still on track to remove all its troops from Iraq by 2011. The visit of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to the White House represented the two men's first meeting since Obama became president. It came less than a month after the U.S. military largely removed its combat troops from inside Iraqi cities and towns, a major step towards eventually withdrawing from the country entirely. Obama cited the progress made by Iraqis and their U.S. ally despite continuing efforts to destabilize the country with bombing attacks.  But what we've seen is, is that the violence levels have remained low, the cooperation between U.S. forces and Iraqi forces has remained high, and we have every confidence that we will continue to work together cooperatively and make adjustments, where necessary, to assure that as we move into the national elections, that Iraq continues on the progress of stability, and that Iraqi security forces are continually ramping up their capabilities, so that ultimately we are going to be able to fulfill our commitment to pull out our troops entirely and interact with Iraq as a full sovereign country that it is.  Read More >> For his part, al-Maliki said:  And those who thought that the Iraqi forces, if the American forces can leave, will be incapable of imposing peace and security, these people proved to be wrong.

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The major news of the morning, as we've reported, is the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan today and the tsunami warning that stretches east to Hawaii and the Pacific coast of the continental U.S. We'll be following that story as the day continues. Other stories making headlines include: -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Court Battles, Recalls Likely After Passage Of Collective Bargaining Bill. -- The New York Times: "Obama Seeks A Course Of Pragmatism In The Middle East." -- BBC News: European Union Leaders Say Gadhafi Must Go. -- The Guardian: "Libyan Troops Enter Ras Lanuf." -- The Wall Street Journal: "U.S. Families Slice Debt To Lowest In 6 Years." -- Politico: "GOP's 2012 Playbook: Budget Cuts Blaze Trail." -- NPR.org: "Tears, No New Fears At Muslim Radicals Hearing."


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Question: How We Process Mass Shootings

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Officials are still looking for clues of a motive behind Tuesday’s mass shooting that left at 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California. The suspected attackers were identified by police as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27. Both were killed last night in a gun battle with police. As authorities work to uncover the story of the killing and the motivation behind it, everyday Americans are struggling to process the violence – especially as mass shootings become more common. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Dr. Jonathan Metzl, a sociologist and psychiatrist who studies mass shootings, for a look at how people come to terms with such attacks and grapple with biases as they search for an explanation. Guest

Jonathan Metzl, M.D., professor of sociology and psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.. He tweets @JonathanMetzl.

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Question: Friday News Roundup - Domestic

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Two hearings and a slew of media controversies dominated the headlines this week. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began his confirmation process on Tuesday. And while he stated in opening remarks that “the Supreme Court must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution,” subsequent court activity suggested otherwise. From Time:  Kavanaugh’s invocation of the lofty ideals of teamwork in partnership marked a stark contrast to the stunning partisanship and rancor that dominated the first day of his hearings. Even as the nominee stuck to the script that has successfully guided predecessors from both parties to the nation’s highest court, Democratic senators were prepared to show just how much they think the norms have been broken. […] Tensions in the hearing room, already high among the senators on the dais, were amplified by near-constant interruptions by protesters from the seats reserved for spectators in the back. As the committee bickered up front, dozens of protesters were removed throughout the day for standing up and yelling during the proceedings. “Kavanaugh is a danger to the future of America!” one protester cried. “My daughter deserves the right to choose!”  We discussed the ongoing hearing with a panel of experts earlier this week. You can hear that conversation here. On Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress about disinformation, privacy, censorship, and election interference on their platforms. Google, in its absence from the hearings, garnered a lot of attention. Here’s a breakdown of the key moments from the hearings, courtesy of Politico. And here’s our conversation about them from earlier this week. Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward rocked the White House and beyond on Tuesday after excerpts from his new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, leaked to reporters. In line with other tell-all books like Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury or Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Unhinged, Woodward depicts a White House in turmoil. President Trump’s response? “It’s just another bad book. He’s had a lot of credibility problems.” A day later, The New York Times published a shocking op-ed by an anonymous “senior administration official.” The writer lambasts President Trump and reveals that “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” The president immediately retaliated:
Does the so-called “Senior Administration Official” really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018   Meanwhile, the guessing game has exploded, and many White House staffers have publicly denied their authorship. We discussed the op-ed earlier this week. To hear that conversation, click here. Finally, The New Yorker drummed up controversy after rescinding Steven Bannon’s invitation to headline its upcoming festival. Editor David Remnick explained his decision in a statement:
A statement from David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, explaining his decision to no longer include Steve Bannon in the 2018 New Yorker Festival. pic.twitter.com/opayiw5GQ2 — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 3, 2018   And Steve Bannon shared his take:
In a statement to CNBC, Bannon slammed The New Yorker’s decision: “In what I would call a defining moment, David Remnick showed he was gutless when confronted by the howling online mob.” https://t.co/TDSrIw8fId pic.twitter.com/FfXBjMxER4 — CNBC (@CNBC) September 4, 2018   We’ll get into all of this, and much more, on the Friday News Roundup. *Text by Kathryn Fink*. GUESTS Ron Elving, Senior editor and correspondent, NPR; @nprrelving Anita Kumar, White House correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers; @anitakumar01 Josh Kraushaar, Political editor, National Journal; @HotlineJosh For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2018 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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Question: As Workers' Comp Varies From State To State, Workers Pay The Price

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At the time of their accidents, Jeremy Lewis was 27, Josh Potter 25. The men lived within 75 miles of each other. Both were married with two children about the same age. Both even had tattoos of their children's names. Their injuries, suffered on the job at Southern industrial plants, were remarkably similar, too. Each man lost a portion of his left arm in a machinery accident. After that, though, their paths couldn't have diverged more sharply: Lewis received $45,000 in workers' compensation for the loss of his arm. Potter was awarded benefits that could surpass $740,000 over his lifetime. The reason: Lewis lived and worked in Alabama, which has the nation's lowest workers' comp benefits for amputations. Potter had the comparative good fortune of losing his arm across the border in Georgia, which is far more generous when it comes to such catastrophic injuries. This disparity grimly illustrates the geographic lottery that governs compensation for workplace injuries in America. Congress allows each state to determine its own benefits, with no federal minimums, so workers who live across state lines from each other can experience entirely different outcomes for identical injuries. Nearly every state has what's known as a "schedule of benefits" that divides up the body like an Angus beef chart. Workers are awarded a portion of their wages up to the state maximum for the specified number of weeks assigned to each body part. But depending on those numbers, the final amounts can vary widely. The loss of an arm, for example, is worth up to $48,840 in Alabama, $193,950 in Ohio and $439,858 in Illinois. The big toe ranges from $6,090 in California to $90,401.88 in Oregon. Some states even put a value on the loss of a testicle. While these benefit tables are just one part of a larger workers' comp system, they provide a vivid picture of the wildly divergent, sometimes nonsensical patchwork of laws that enrages employers and employees alike. "What's the difference? You lose your leg, it don't matter where you lose it," said Eric Bennett, whose insurer says he's only entitled to the Alabama max of $44,000 for the leg he lost at a fertilizer mill. "It should be the same. A leg is a leg." The calculus of such losses can be dehumanizing. One worker at a Jasper, Ala., sawmill lost her thumb and every finger save her pinkie when her hand was dragged through the rusty gears of a scrap wood conveyor. But instead of paying the larger sum for her entire hand, the mill's insurer has offered her only the benefits for each individual finger. Given their profound impact on people's lives, how much compensation workers get for traumatic injuries seems like it would be the product of years of study, combining medical wisdom and economic analysis. But in reality, the amounts are often the result of political expediency, sometimes based on bargains struck decades ago. Such decisions are part of greater rollback in protections for injured workers nationwide. Over the past decade, a ProPublica and NPR investigation found, state after state has slashed workers' comp benefits, driven by calls from employers and insurers to lower costs. In fact, employers are now paying the lowest rates for workers' comp than at any time since the 1970s. Nonetheless, dozens of legislatures have changed their workers' comp laws, often citing the need to compete with neighboring states and be more attractive to business. The changes have forced injured workers' families and taxpayers "to subsidize the vast majority of the lost income and medical care costs generated by these conditions," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a report issued Wednesday that echoed several of ProPublica and NPR's findings. Alabama's amputation benefit, long among the nation's stingiest, sent Lewis into just the kind of downward spiral workers' comp was intended to prevent. "I mean, I done lost everything I owned," said Lewis. "I lost my house, three brand new vehicles. There wasn't no way that that amount of money was going to replace what I'd lost." After foreclosure, Lewis and his family moved from their three-bedroom stucco home in a new development in Albertville to a rundown singlewide trailer on the outskirts of town. On the other side of the Alabama-Georgia border, Potter has been able to maintain some semblance of his former life. The Georgia maximum for a lost arm is $118,125, more than double that of Alabama. More importantly, workers who lose a limb in Georgia are entitled to two-thirds of their wages until they return to work or, if they can't, for as long as they live. While Potter's hardly getting rich off workers' comp, the $285 a week he receives has prevented his family from going under. "I'm lucky," he said, upon hearing what happened to Lewis. "As of right now, we've lost one vehicle and one's falling apart. But we're making it work. 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Question: 'We Should All Know How To Feed Ourselves': LA Gardener On Finding Freedom Through Growing Fresh Foo

Growing up and raising his children in South Central Los Angeles, gardener Ron Finley knows what it’s like to drive nearly an hour through traffic to buy a fresh apple or tomato. The region is one of this country’s many food deserts, areas where residents have little to no access to healthy, affordable food. Through the Ron Finley Project and his MasterClass, Finley aims to help people grow their own food and fall in love with the soil. “We need to know where our food comes from. That’s to me where the freedom part comes in,” he says. “This is something no one can ever, ever, ever take from you. It’s a life skill, and we all should know how to feed ourselves.” Prior to finding his love of gardening, Finley worked as a fashion designer and personal trainer. Now, he hopes to inspire others to pursue gardening. “If it’s not going to be your passion, if you’re not going to change the standards, don’t do it,” he says. “I’m here to show people how to be creative. This is like an art form for me and that’s how I treat it.” The coronavirus pandemic is showing people the importance of food and the difficulties of buying it in certain situations, he says. He thinks children should learn to grow to produce in school. Children may watch bean sprouts germinate and grow in the windowsill at school, but he says it’s easy for grown-ups to forget this half lesson. But he hopes to fill the gap of what schools don’t teach students: how to turn biology lessons into a meal. “I want everybody to have the full lesson,” he says. “I want everybody to have the opportunity to get their hands on the soil.” Finley calls places like South Central LA “food prisons.” He believes in the saying “beauty in, beauty out”: Putting healthy foods into neighborhoods will spark beauty, but letting people go hungry and suffer from curable diseases will not. “There’s not a food shortage. There’s a distribution problem that’s by design,” he says. Don’t let the idea of starting a garden intimidate you, he says. Just like soil, humans are made of carbon, and turn to soil when we die, he says. Think of the cushy, spongy soil in the forest, he suggests. That’s how the soil in your garden should feel — without any tilling or additives. “You want your garden to have that kind of lonely, luxurious, sexy soil,” he says. “There are no mistakes. There are only lessons.” When people think of gardens, they often think of large plots of land. Finley says a deep wooden shoebox or a wine crate lined with cardboard or weed cloth can grow assorted vegetables such as lettuce or squash. Squash travels, he says, so vines may pop up all over your lawn from one small box. It’s okay to start small — even with just a tin can. When he learned how to make compost, Finley says it changed his life. Though his first batch went rotten, properly combining green and dead leaves to make compost taught him that “nothing ever dies.” Just because something worked for one person doesn’t mean it will for everyone, he says, so be creative and explore new possibilities. “Once you get in the garden, you realize that almost everything is possible,” he says.  Cristina Kim produced this story and edited it for broadcast with Tinku Ray. Allison Hagan adapted it for the web. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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Question: Joint Chiefs Of Staff Members On Quarantine After Coast Guard Officer Tests Positive

Almost all members of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top military officials, are quarantining at home after a senior Coast Guard officer tested positive for the coronavirus.

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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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Question: For Some, Roots Of Cologne Attacks May Run Deeper Than We Think

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On New Year's Eve, a mob of young men assaulted and harassed dozens of women outside a busy train station in the German city of Cologne. Authorities and eyewitnesses differ on what motivated these attacks, but most accounts agree that many of those involved appeared to be North African or Arab. In the course of the investigation so far, 31 suspects have been taken in for questioning, more than half of whom were asylum-seekers. That has set off a national debate in Germany, which has taken the form of street demonstrations and protests on social and traditional media. The question at the heart of the conversation is whether the influx of refugees and migrants is changing Germany in unacceptable ways. But some, including writer and feminist activist Anne Wizorek, assert that the matter has roots that run much deeper than the newcomers. "The problem of sexism and sexual violence, especially against women, has already been there and has nothing to do with any people who come here as refugees or are growing up as people of color in general," Wizorek tells NPR's Michel Martin. Wizorek, together with Stefanie Lohaus, penned a recent article in Vice arguing that the sexual assaults point to a much larger problem in the country: "In fact, Germany's rape culture is deeply rooted in our collective psyche," they write. "We have to address this problem finally," Wizorek tells Martin. "Because right now, we're only focusing on sexism and sexual assault when it is perpetrated by men of color, and that sets a wrong focus on the problem that we actually have to talk about."  Interview Highlights On what happened in Cologne on New Year's Eve Women have been touched and sometimes their clothes been torn apart. And they have been insulted and they have been surrounded by this group of men, attacking them. So this is of course a very gruesome situation. We just feel powerless, and just hope that it's all over, basically, very soon. On the way Germany's political leadership has responded Heiko Maas, the minister of justice, was one of the first ones to respond to this and say that this is a kind of violence that will not be tolerated, of course. And now he's also pushed to get the law changed that is addressing sexual violence and sexual assault. But I think the most important one was of course issued by Angela Merkel, our chancellor. She now wants to see if it's possible to send the people who came here as asylum-seekers and who commit crimes like this back to their home countries, which of course is something that causes another debate on whether or not we should take this incident and change a whole law and a whole situation for so many more people. On #Aufschrei, a hashtag meaning "Outcry," which she initiated on Twitter #Aufschrei was an ad hoc campaign, so it wasn't really planned. We were just in this situation on Twitter where one of my friends started sharing her own experience with sexual assault and I just wanted to have something to make us all able to vent about this. So I suggested the hashtag. And then we started tweeting about everything from sexual remarks at the working place, from being stalked, from men following us home, touching us on public transport. People were also sharing their stories about how they have been raped by friends and family. So, already under the hashtag you saw the whole range of sexism and sexual violence happening. On why she believes public harassment is getting media attention now  Let's just say it's very astonishing to see the people who — back then when #Aufschrei was big in the media and people talked about it — that a lot of people also tried to downplay the problems. They were saying, "Well, but we've gotten so far and we have gender equity in Germany right now, we have a female chancellor, so what do you want?" All that kind of argument was going on. And those people are the ones who are now talking a lot about what has happened in Cologne. So they are using these stories and these experiences of the people who have been attacked in Cologne to only push forward with their racist agenda against migrants and refugees in Germany. And I think that's a huge problem. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:  Another big story we're watching today is out of Germany. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Cologne today and clashed with police, triggered by a series of sexual assaults and robberies that happened on New Year's Eve. (SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTORS: (Chanting in foreign language). MARTIN: Authorities and eyewitnesses differ on what motivated these attacks. Some believe they were part of an organized pickpocket ring using the attacks as a diversion. Others say the men were drunk. But most of those involved appeared to be North African or Arab. Thirty-one suspects have been taken in for questioning. More than half were asylum-seekers, and all of that has set off a debate over whether the influx of refugees and migrants is changing Germany in unacceptable ways. Some of tha

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Question: Golfer Removes His Pants (For A Legitimate Reason)

Golfer Justin Rose was playing at a golf tournament in Louisiana and his ball went into the water. He took off his pants and shoes and stepped into the water to hit it out.

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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The blues came early to Patty Larkin. "I remember being small and standing underneath the keyboard while someone was playing barrelhouse blues and I felt like I had just seen God; it was a great sound to me," she notes for a Web site bio. And since those childhood experiences singing with her grandmothers and listening to them play the piano, Larkin has become a master acoustic guitarist, a talented multi-instrumentalist, and an articulate songstress. She conveys an ambitious spectrum of moods in her music, from deep soul and longing to crackling humor and irony, all wrapped in smoky, lyrical vocals. Larkin's tender, yet insistent acoustic guitar dominates her recently released album Red=Luck. It's a mix of different musical styles and textures, from celtic and folk to rock and blues. Larkin collaborates with such diverse musicians as folk-rocker Jonatha Brooke, Australian slide-guitar wizard Jeff Lang, and members of the Celtic band Solas. She wrote the songs on Cape Cod, where she keeps a recording studio. During a recent performance in NPR's Studio 4A, Larkin tells NPR's Bob Edwards that "Red=Luck came out of a trip to China I was about to take... my first cross-cultural experience outside of the womb of the United States.... The color red was considered good fortune and luck." Larkin earned a degree in English literature from the University of Oregon, but she tells Edwards that she knew afterward that she wanted to focus on music, so went on to graduate from Boston's Berklee College of Music, and to years of training with guitar teachers. "I felt like it was a really good base, to be as broad as I could," she says of that experience. And her mother is a painter, which adds to Larkin's rich grounding in the fine arts. It may also be a secret to her capacity — identified by filmmaker Sidney Pollack, who used her music in the film Random Hearts — for writing "visually." That quality comes through in songs such as "The Cranes," written immediately after she watched sandhill cranes filling the sky on their 7,000-mile annual migration from Nebraska to Siberia, and "Inside Your Painting," which offers this vivid tableau: "The sky is vermillion, the sun is sienna... another chartreuse day...The landscape is shimmering, outside of Vienna, doing the tour jete." Vermillion, sienna, chartreuse... and the blues. "A palette of colors unknown to the Crayola," is how Edwards describes Patty Larkin's spectrum. And Red=Luck.

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Question: As Interest In Horse Racing Declines, Track Turns To Other Options

With public interest in horse racing declining, the parent company of the Kentucky Derby has evolved into an entertainment enterprise built on gambling and social gaming platforms.


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Question: Shemekia Copeland On Mountain Stage

As Larry Groce mentions in his introduction, the daughter of Blues Music Hall of Fame member Johnny Copeland is anything but predictable. Her albums have been produced by the likes of Dr. John and Steve Cropper. For 2015's Outskirts of Love, Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers manned the board. Copeland's powerful performance on Outskirts of Love was acknowledged with the 2016 Blues Music Award for best contemporary blues female artist and garnered her third Grammy nomination of her career in the category of best blues album. Along with her dynamic band that includes Willie Scandlyn on guitar, Kevin Jenkins on bass, Robin Gould on drums, Arthur Neilson on guitar, Copeland delivered this air-tight set to the audience in Marietta, Ohio at the freshly renovated Peoples Bank Theatre last spring. Her musical reinvention continues with her upcoming ninth album America's Child, due out August 3 from Alligator Records. Recorded in Nashville with producer Will Kimbrough, the record ventures further into the Americana realm. America's Child features new songs by Mary Gauthier, John Han, Oliver Wood and Kevin Gordon, among others. The album also includes reinterpretations of songs by The Kinks, John Prine, and her father Johnny Copeland. Guests features include Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Cropper, Emmylou Harris and more. SET LIST: "Outskirts of Love" "Crossbone Beach" "The Battle Is Over (But the War Goes On)" "Married to the Blues" "Devil's Hand"

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Question: Judge To Decide Whether Bill Cosby Criminal Case Proceeds To Trial

Bill Cosby's first hearing in a criminal case resumed Wednesday with a decision expected on whether the sexual assault charges will be thrown out or proceed to trial.

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Louisville Player's Surgery A Success; Leg Break Shouldn't End His Career -- Texas On 'High Alert' After District Attorney's Killing -- It's Almost Cicada Time! Help Radiolab Track #Swarmageddon -- Book News: Shakespeare Was A Tax Evader And Food Hoarder, Researchers Say -- If Something Smells Funny, Remember What Day It Is Other stories making headlines: -- "South Korea Vows Fast Response To North; U.S. Deploys Stealth Jets." (Reuters) -- "Drug Maker Novartis Loses India Patent Battle." (The Associated Press) -- In Southwestern Virginia, "3 Dead, Dozens Hospitalized" After Dense Fog Causes Multi-Vehicle Pileup. (The Roanoke Times) -- Prosecutors Weigh Pursuing Death Penalty In Colorado Theater Killings; James Holmes Has Offered Guilty Plea For Life Sentence. (The Denver Post) -- Atlanta Educators Indicted In Cheating Scandal To Turn Themselves In. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Play Ball! Major League Baseball Season Gets Going. (MLB.com)


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Question: Homeland Security Blamed for Waste, Mismanagement

The Department of Homeland Security has wasted money on no-bid contracts and inadequate management of the contractors, according to congressional investigators. Their report's individual complaints have been discussed publicly before, but the document unifies them. DHS officials says the agency is working to correct the problems.

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Criminal Charges in HP Spying Scandal. CDC Study Shows Health Effects of Perchlorate. End Music.


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Question: MIT Media Lab Director Resigns Over Reported Epstein Ties

Joichi Ito has resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab after a New Yorker article detailed the lengths to which the Lab concealed funds received from Jeffrey Epstein.

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Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Actress Angelina Jolie Shares Story Of Her Double Mastectomy. -- Russian Security Service Claims To Have Uncovered CIA Agent. -- Afghan Taxes Weigh Heavily On U.S. Contractors, Report Says. -- Book News: Amazon Debuts Its Virtual Currency. Other stories of the morning: -- "IRS Officials In Washington Were Involved In Targeting Of Conservative Groups." (The Washington Post) -- Associated Press Blasts Justice Department's Search Of Reporters' Phone Records. (Morning Edition) -- Cleveland Kidnappings Suspect Was Previously Accused, But Not Formally Charged, With Abusing Common-Law Wife And Threatening Neighbors. (The Plain Dealer) -- New Orleans Police Identify One Suspect In Mother's Day Shooting That Injured 19. (The Times-Picayune) -- "Comfort Women" Were "Necessary" During World War II, Prominent Japanese Politician Says. (BBC News)


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Question: Letters from Listeners

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NPR's Brian Naylor reads from listener comments.

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Wedding Announcements from Kasper Hauser's upcoming book Weddings of the Times.


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Question: Friday Comedy: Michael Colyar

In this week's comedy segment, NPR's Tavis Smiley gets some laughs from comedian Michael Colyar. Known as a conscious comic, Colyar uses themes from his real life experience such as his addiction to crack and his opinions on safe sex, to deliver an act that's both entertaining and thought-provoking.

Comedy from Bryan Coffee's stage show The Weekly Armenian.


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Question: Soprano Renée Fleming

Soprano Renée Fleming talks with NPR's Fred Child about Haunted Heart, her new jazz recording with pianist Fred Hersch and guitarist Bill Frisell. Fleming talks about the CD with NPR's Fred Child. And then we hear a critic's opinion from Anne Midgette, who reviews concerts and recordings for The New York Times.

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Rachel Gawell, 15, performs Mark Summers' "Julie-O."


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Question: NPR Listeners Pick the Year's Best CDs

Tens of thousands of listeners voted in the All Songs Considered poll for the year's best CDs. It was tight for much of the race. Radiohead and Arcade Fire ran neck-and-neck for first place. But in the end, Radiohead's In Rainbows pulled ahead as an overwhelming winner for the most popular album in 2007. There were also some surprises: some of the year's most anticipated CDs (like Rilo Kiley's Under the Blacklight), or most popular albums (like Lily Allen's Alright, Still) barely made the top 25. Meanwhile, smaller acts like Andrew Bird wound up in the top ten. The 25 CDs NPR listeners loved most this year are listed below. Thanks to all who voted and for helping make it a great year at All Songs Considered.

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Stories: 1) When 10 Won't Do: David Edelstein's Top 13 Films 2) In Case You Missed It: Events And Trends Of 2009 3) Ken Tucker's Top 10 Recordings Of 2009


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Question: Letters from Listeners

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We recently featured a performance of a piece of serious orchestral concert music inspired by tunes from Frank Zappa. Listeners have responded in droves. Today we look into the inbox to find out what they thought.


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The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

The Alf Files, Naked Faces, and Hunky Homers.


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Question: Nigeria Moves To Clean Up Lead Pollution From Gold Mines

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Finally, the Nigerian government is fulfilling its promise to help thousands of kids, who have been exposed to toxic levels of lead. After months of delay and red tape, the government has released $4 million to clean up lead in soil near illegal gold mines in northern Nigeria. "We had a glass of champagne after the announcement," says Ivan Gayton, who directs Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria. "But it's not done yet. This is only the beginning of the work." For nearly a year now, Gayton and his medical team have wanted to treat roughly 1,500 children in the town of Bagega for lead poisoning. But the doctors didn't have a safe place to set up clinics. Gayton also says it would have been useless to try to clear lead out of kids' systems only to send them back to a contaminated village. The release of the funds will allow soil remediation to begin around Bagega, and then kids will have a safe place to return to after treatment. Gayton says the contamination levels at Bagega are particularly high. "It may be one of the worst lead contamination sites in the world," he tells Shots. Lead poisoning in northern Nigeria has already killed more than 400 children and sickened thousands more. About a decade ago, as the international price of gold rose toward record highs, villagers started mining gold from local rock formations. Unfortunately, the gold deposits in this part of Nigeria run alongside veins of lead. As miners crush the ore to process it, they release toxic lead dust into the air. Some children showed up at health clinics with blood lead levels above 400, or 40 times higher than what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is a cause for concern. The lead poisoning has caused cognitive and developmental delays in children. In severe cases, kids were going into convulsions and even dying. An Idaho-based company remediated the soil in several villages in the state of Zamfara, but the money to clean up Bagega had been tied up in the Nigerian bureaucracy for more than a year. Doctors Without Borders physicians have been treating only the most severe cases of lead poisoning from Bagega, saying that more widespread treatment would be futile if the patients immediately return to a contaminated environment. Gayton says the release of the remediation money is a major step forward for helping these kids. But the long delay has exacted a heavy toll. "By now the most vulnerable children are already dead," he says.

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Question: It's ScuttleButton Time!

Anyone who has seen the "The Artist" knows how much people talked about the ScuttleButton puzzle throughout the movie.  What they didn't say was how to play the game. Every Monday on this site I put up a      vertical display  of  buttons.       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's the answer to last week's puzzle: last week's puzzle, where you'll see what I was talking about regarding buttons in a horizontal line: Return Crimean Tatars to Crimea -- Gramm President — Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1996. MIA ? Missing Or Prisoner — This late 1960s-era button focused on those "Missing In Action" American soldiers who didn't return home from Southeast Asia. Re-elect Ward Democratic District Leader AND Frank Ward Senate buttons — I believe the first Ward button is from Queens, N.Y., perhaps the 1960s.  Don't know who Frank Ward is. So, when you combine Gramm + Mia + Wards, you just very well may get ... Grammy Awards.  The entertainment ceremony broadcast from Los Angeles last week where Adele was celebrated and Whitney Houston was remembered. And now you see why I couldn't accept "Grammy Award" as a correct answer.  Dozens of people, unfortunately, gave that as the solution. But not Russ Wyllie of Mountain View, Calif. And that's why Russ, the randomly selected winner, gets a TOTN t-shirt.

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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Question: Nunez: Dems Will Fix Budget Solo, If Needed

With the clock ticking for legislators to resolve the current year fiscal crisis, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez vowed today to do it without Republicans if necessary.
In comments to the Sacramento Press Club, the Los Angeles Democrat emphasized that he hopes to find common ground with GOP lawmakers on how to resolve the $3.3 billion shortfall [...]

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: Art Critic Michael Kimmelman

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The show rebroadcasts a discussion on art and life with New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. Kimmelman is the author of "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere," and "The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa."

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Question: As Kansas City Booms And Sprawls, Trying Not To Forget Those In Between

This summer, NPR reporters are returning to their hometowns to see how they've changed. Sarah McCammon grew up in Kansas City – on the Missouri side of the state line.  Like a lot of places, Kansas City is experiencing a couple of major trends – suburban sprawl and, more recently, a downtown revitalization. My two siblings who still live there are a pretty good example of this. My brother, Dan Fowler, is in his late 20s, works for a tech startup and, like many of his friends, lives in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Growing up, he remembers driving through downtown "hurriedly" en route to other places, but a lot has changed. "I just remember it as being the run-down place that nobody really goes, but now I'm living here, and I really wouldn't live anywhere else," he said. There's been a lot of public and private investment in the downtown since I left in 1999: a new streetcar, restaurants and bars, a thriving arts district and recently-converted condos, like my brother's, which overlooks the Central Business District with the Missouri River in the distance. The Kansas City metropolitan area – which straddles the Kansas-Missouri state line – is spread out. It's built on what was once a prairie, with more freeway miles per capita than any other major metro area. For a major city, the traffic is relatively light, and you can drive out south to the Kansas suburbs in half an hour or so. There, farmland has been slowly turning into subdivisions, office parks, and shopping centers for many years. For example, the popular Kansas City suburb of Overland Park has grown from nearly 82,000 people in 1980, the year before I was born, to almost 190,000 people today - far outpacing the rate of growth for the state of Kansas as a whole. My sister, Mary Hodges, and her husband are in their 30s, with a growing family. They recently bought a house in the Kansas suburbs. "Both of us work on this side of town, and a majority of our friends now live on this side of town," she said, "because they were looking for the same thing we were — the good school districts." But my memories of Kansas City center around neither downtown nor the suburbs. Most of my early years were spent in neighborhoods in between – like Grandview, Hickman Mills, and Raytown – full of modest ranch-style homes and strip malls. I went to a private religious school – Blue Ridge Christian – based in a church on the edge of Raytown. Larry Becker, a teacher whose family helped found the school, grew up in Raytown when it was a predominantly white, middle-class suburb of Kansas City. He still lives in the area. Since Becker's childhood, the city has grown up around Raytown, and poverty risen has steadily over the past couple of decades; the poverty rate for Raytown has more than doubled since 2000, according to U.S. Census data. Becker said the Christian school struggled to survive in a place where many families can't afford private school tuition. "We were on the south edge of Kansas City and it was mainly upper-middle-class families that were utilizing the school there; now we're probably more middle-class to lower-middle-class families," he said. I've known Becker's daughter, Sarah Helmering, since we were in preschool. We went for a drive through the old neighborhood, to what used to be a major Kansas City shopping destination a couple of miles from the school – Bannister Mall. Our families, and lots of others, shopped there in the 1980s and '90s; but because of a struggling economy, and declining interest in traditional malls, it was leveled several years ago. "It certainly is a different landscape than what was here when we were growing up," Helmering said as she pulled onto Interstate 435, which runs through the area. "It still, every time I drive by this area, still is so strange to me to look over into this area and not see Bannister Mall." The site is now home to a giant corporate campus for Cerner Corp., a growing, Kansas-City based health information technology company. "We're in continual need for office space, and when this property became available – given its central location within Kansas City – it was a perfect opportunity for us," Chief Operating Officer Mike Nill said. Our Christian school recently moved out of the neighborhood after enrollment plummeted. The church, also facing declining numbers, is also preparing to move. That's creating an opening for another congregation, closer to the city's urban core, which is raising money to buy the property. On a recent Sunday morning at Grace Baptist Church of Greater Kansas City, Rev. Aaron Lavender led the congregation in singing the old hymn, "There is Power in the Blood." Lavender said he's had a friendship with the leaders of Blue Ridge Bible Church for many years. When he learned about the opportunity to buy the property in the Raytown area – which is becoming increasingly black and Hispanic – he saw it as a "prime location" for his church, which is running out space for its youth programs and other

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- U.S. Families Stunned By Russia's Ban On Adoptions. -- Remembering Gen. Schwarzkopf, 'Military Hero Of His Generation'. -- Secretary Clinton Due Back At Work Next Week, 'Foreign Policy' Reports. And the other major story of the day, as we reported late Thursday: -- White House To Host Congressional Leaders Friday For Fiscal Deadline Talks. Meanwhile, other stories making headlines include: -- At Least 17 Deaths Blamed On Winter Storm That Crossed Much Of Nation. (The Associated Press) -- Former President George H.W. Bush Remains In Hospital, But Would Urge Folks To "Put The Harps Back In The Closet," Spokeswoman Says. (Houston Chronicle) -- Shooting Appears To Be Chicago's 500th Homicide This Year. (Chicago Tribune)


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Question: Michigan Woman Win $5 Million Lottery Prize

The woman was prompted to check her ticket after she scrolled through her social media feed and saw an article about the winning ticket coming from the same shop where she bought her ticket.

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Reports: Police Pursued Manslaughter Charge In Trayvon Martin's Death. -- Gingrich Slashes Staff, Pins Hopes On GOP Delegates Turning To Him. -- JetBlue Freak Out: Passenger Had To Put Panicked Pilot 'In A Choke Hold'. -- It's Day 3 For Health Care Cases At The Supreme Court. -- Tibetan Exile Dies From Burns Suffered In Self-Immolation. Other stories making news: -- "Magic Johnson-led Group Is Picked As Dodgers' Next Owner." (Los Angeles Times) -- Colorado Wildfires "Claim Elderly Couple, Torch 4,500 Acres." (The Denver Post) -- "Mega Millions Rockets To Record $476 Million." (Philadelphia Inquirer) -- "Durable Goods Orders Rebound In January." (The Associated Press) -- Women's Final Four In Basketball Are All No. 1 Seeds. (The Associated Press)


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Question: 5 Essential Ravi Shankar Recordings, From 'West Meets East' To 'West Eats Meat'

In certain circles, the echoes of the late sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar's talent are everywhere — and not just in the places you might expect. There's his daughter and sitar protegee Anoushka Shankar, who's followed in her father's fusion footsteps, as well as his daughter Norah Jones, who grew up without her father in a relationship only publicly acknowledged when Jones was on the brink of adulthood. (Shankar had a complicated personal life that is touched upon glancingly in his autobiography Raga Mala, published in 1997 when he turned 75.) But his influence comes through in more surprising places as well, from the name that fan and onetime Shankar student John Coltrane gave his son, to the way that the sound of the sitar seeped into who knows how many pop productions in the decades that followed and Shankar's first encounter with George Harrison in 1966. (As I write this, I have sitting next to me Shankar's 1968 book My Music, My Life, which boasts a "complete" manual for the mechanics of playing the sitar and introduction to raga theory that is all of 55 pages long.) Moreover, lots of folks around the world won't know other Indian instruments like a bansuri flute or a sarod or a sarangi, but they can instantly identify the sitar's sound — and that's entirely thanks to Ravi Shankar. Twenty years ago, when I first fell entirely accidentally into the world of South Asian music — which then became a long-standing passion of mine — the only Indian musician's name I knew was his. Back then, I couldn't possibly have foreseen having had the chance of working with him for a short time about a decade later, when I was asked to put together a retrospective compilation of some of his most notable experimental work. He was a warm and gracious presence, and seemed intrigued by how I had stumbled into Indian classical music. "But you're Greek!" he exclaimed. Well, yes — but as for so many others, I was lucky enough to have experienced his music as a portal into this whole other world. Shankar became the world's foremost ambassador of Indian music and culture, but he couldn't be all things to all people. There have been many other astoundingly talented sitarists who were either contemporaries of Shankar or younger, among them Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan and his son Shujaat Husain Khan, but none of them ever became household names the way Shankar did. He was a spokesperson for the North Indian tradition, which only tells half the story of Indian classical music. And critics and connoisseurs sometimes derided the way that Shankar reshaped centuries-old tradition into easily digestable bites — turning ragas that traditionally would unfurl over the course of an hour or much more into ditties — ragettes, maybe? — that alaap to jhala lasted maybe 10 minutes in all. Yet no other artist caught the fire of popular imagination the way that Shankar managed, or knew how to connect to Western audiences the way he did. After all, this was someone who moved to Paris at age 10 and when he was about 13 saw Cab Calloway play the Cotton Club in Harlem, and whose artistic family was admired by such world-class aesthetes as James Joyce and Anna Pavlova. Perhaps no one else was as willing to continue to evangelize about Indian classical music throughout his life. Even well into his 80s, Shankar patiently gave performances and explanations that traced the basic outlines of Indian classical theory — which many master musicians of any style would find far beneath them. And Shankar passionately explored all kinds of musical streams with an amazing group of collaborators, creating a global network of kindred spirits that bore tremendous riches.

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Question: Humanitarian Groups: Libya's Coast Guard Is Interfering With Migrant Rescues

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Rachel Martin talks to Marcella Kraay of Doctors Without Borders about the dozens of migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe this week. The Libyan Coast Guard is accused of robbing migrants.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Latest On Paris Attacks: French War Planes Keep Pounding ISIS In Syria. -- Advocate: States Can't Shut Doors On Refugees. -- Russian Officials Say Plane Crash Was A Terrorist Act. And here are more early stories: Dozens Arrested In Minnesota After Deadly Police Shooting Of Black Man. (CBS) In Philippines, Obama Promises Maritime Aid To Asia-Pacific Allies. (VOA) Baby Is Last Ebola Patient To Recover, Be Released In Guinea. (BBC) Hundreds Of New U.N. Peacekeepers May Go To C.A.R. Ahead Of Pope's Visit. (AP) Exiled Yemeni President Returns As Anti-Rebel Offensive Continues. (AFP) Several Migrants Killed Off Greece When Boat Capsizes. (AP) From Blizzards To Flooding: Strong U.S. Storms Possible Today. (NWS)


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Question: Nick Lowe Performs 'Lay It On Me Baby' From His West London Home

There are few nicknames in rock and roll better than our guest's: the Jesus of Cool. Nick Lowe has been a prolific songwriter for more than 50 years, penning classics like "What's So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding" and "Cruel to Be Kind," but in the 1970s he was known for his work as a producer at upstart label Stiff Records (where he was tagged with another A-plus nickname, Basher). In this session, we get to dive into those years, finding out what life was like producing for his longtime friend Elvis Costello, and the magic of recording the song "Allison." Nick Lowe will also talk about his latest EP, Lay It On Me Baby, recorded with his longtime house band, Los Straitjackets. But first, recorded in his west London house, we start with an acoustic performance of "Lay It On Me Baby."

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Question: Wildfires Ignite Worries for Colorado Woman

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Large wildfires in Montana, Idaho and elsewhere in the West are blackening forests and forcing residents from their homes. On an isolated mesa in Colorado, commentator Michelle Nijhuis wonders whether to pack her suitcases. ROBERT SIEGEL, host:  Today, large wild fires in Montana, Idaho and elsewhere in the West are blackening forests and forcing residents from their homes. On an isolated mesa in Colorado, commentator Michelle Nijhuis is wondering whether to pack her suitcases.  Ms. MICHELLE NIJHUIS (Commentator; Journalist): Today, as I walk the Western Colorado Mesa where I live, thunder clouds gather in the West, rumbling with afternoon storms. For me, the heavy clouds were in a fire. I know that right now, dozens of wildfire stretch over more than a million acres of the Rocky Mountains, threatening homes and neighborhoods I know well. I'm all too aware that one bolt of lightening could make it my turn.  My fear of fire always starts growing in the spring, when green weeds unfold around the house. By summer, the grass is dry, the days are heavy and hot, and a persistent haze of smoke makes distant fires feel much too close.  My neighbor doesn't reassure me, yup, he'll occasionally say by way of greeting, this place is going to burn this year. He's skinny, profane and excitable, and I'm never sure if he's just cultivating an explosive image, or if he really might blow someday.  On summer nights, I walk with my husband along the irrigation canal, its water too far from our house for comfort. We look across the valley of the hillside that burned 10 years ago; a fire that left two friends with nothing, but the Volkswagen bus they escaped in.  As we walk home, our neighbor's car sometimes rattles by. I see his silhouette salute us and I scanned the mesa for smoke.  My husband and I live in the desert because we are romantics, because we are cheapskates, because we like the coyotes and the wild turkeys. Fire was here long before we arrived, and for a while it was just an obstruction, part of the pioneer allure of the place. But in eight years, I've heard enough stories and seen enough smoke to become possessive. I don't want to give up our hollow on the hilltop, our tidy two-room house. I don't want to see it in ashes. My neighbor, who looks to be itching for drama, suddenly seems luckier, freer than my husband or me.  We chopped down the spindly juniper trees that grow thickly near our house, widening our circle of safety. But destruction still seems all but inevitable. When lightning strikes, I stand on a picnic table with binoculars, looking for curls of smoke. Maybe our luck will hold until early September. Then, when frosty undertones appear in the heat, I'll finally start to relax, not this year, I'll think. This year was someone else's disaster.  Sometimes, during an idle afternoon, I'll lie in the hammock and think about moving away. But I'll also know that winter's coming and it will soon be safe for another eight months. So, I'll stay planted in the hammock, my foot braced on an uncertain juniper, listening for the last of the summer thunder.  SIEGEL: Journalist Michelle Nijhuis writes about science and the environment from her home in Western Colorado.

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"['', 'What\'s in a great name? If you\'re one of the minds behind Name of the Year, it\'s anything from Atticus Disney to Neptune Pringle III. NOTY, which began in the early 1980s on an unnamed Ivy League campus, aims "to discover, verify, nominate, elect and disseminate great names." And this year\'s first-round match-ups look like some of the competition\'s all-time best. (You know, if you keep track of that sort of thing.) La\'Peaches Pitt vs. Cruise Citation Mangle. Delorean Blow vs. Basil Smotherman Jr. Philanderer Moor vs. Dr. Loveday Conquest. These are names that belong on stage with George Clinton and P-Funk, not slumming as bridesmaids or college professors for lame-named folks. That\'s the subtle brilliance of NOTY. You figure you have to suspend disbelief to enjoy it — all of the names, especially beauties like Joe Shortsleeve, just can\'t be real. But, wonderfully enough, they belong to actual, living people. Sure, some of the names are legally enhanced. Colonel Many-Bears Grinder, a Bronze Star recipient in the National Guard, says she changed hers after a nickname stuck. (Which is a whole barrel of awesome.) Authenticity aside, I\'m very, very happy to know that a person out there — a decorated soldier to boot — wants to be called Many-Bears. Although, it\'s not all sunshine and happiness in the world of NOTY. The blog claims that "no malice is intended" in the contest, but isn\'t that kind of the point? It might be a stretch to call it malicious, but NOTY is certainly driven by mocking schoolyard humor. Is it okay to laugh when you say Courvoisier Winetavius Richardson, even though the man behind the name actually exists? I\'m not sure, but I\'m can\'t help myself. We laugh at these names simply because they sound funny; it\'s immature, but inescapable. At age 6 or 60, it\'s tough to keep a straight face when you meet a person who introduces himself as Dr. Taco B.M. Monster or Monsterville Horton IV. Look at that last one, which happens to be my dark horse favorite to win this year\'s NOTY title. The guy is the fourth generation Monsterville Horton — isn\'t just a name anymore, it\'s a family legacy. Isn\'t that worth celebrating?']" == "['Represent this text to find its subtitle about the same news but with slightly more depth', "What's In The Name Of The Year? Ask Monsterville, Because He Knows"]"

Salinas Valley Suspected Source of Contaminated Spinach. Santa Ana Winds Fuel Ventura County Fire. Ballot Measure Campaign Spending. Northwest States Agree to Manage Ocean Jointly. End Music.


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When Elisa Della-Piana shows up at a firehouse door not looking her best, she experiences the scorn endured routinely by people living on the street

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Stories: 1) Blackwater: Private Army In The News Again 2) What's The Word? How English Evolved This Decade


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Question: Trump's Vision: Uniting 'Under One God' Vs. Religious Freedom

Donald Trump has been repeating the phrase "One people under one God." Critics say it could be interpreted as running counter to the American tradition of religious freedom.

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Carl reads three quotes from the week's news: A Surprising Revelation About the GOP Front-Runner; The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Clean Undies; Palin vs. Couric Round 2.


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Question: Responding to Your Letters

Farai Chideya and producer/editor Christopher Johnson read from listener letters.  Today they read e-mail about a recent interview with gospel star Kirk Franklin and a tribute to the late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

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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.


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Question: Gazans Skeptical Obama Will Bring Mideast Change

In the Gaza Strip, where a tenuous cease-fire is holding, many Palestinians voiced skepticism Tuesday that the new Obama administration would mean a real change in U.S. policy in the Middle East. Hamas is acting triumphant after three weeks of intense Israeli attacks. But for many civilians the devastation across the territory hardly says "victory."  At a well-attended rally through the devastated streets of Gaza City on Tuesday, the ruling Hamas movement reasserted its authority and declared victory. On the sidelines of the rally, Hamas spokesman Fouzi Barhoum told reporters President Obama must change U.S. policy toward Hamas and the Palestinians after what he called "the terrorism" of the Bush administration.  "Obama must take a lesson from all these crimes and mistakes committed by the American administration against the civilian people inside Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and Palestine," he said.  Few people in Gaza seemed to care about the inauguration of Barack Obama. One Gazan returning to his ravaged home was asked if he knew what was happening in Washington. He shook his head "no" and walked on.  Many ordinary civilians struggling to rebuild shattered lives sneered at Hamas' assertion of "victory." Water and power problems are extensive. Hospitals are still clogged with the wounded. The UN estimates that some 50,000 homes in the territory were damaged or destroyed in the Israeli attacks.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Gaza on Tuesday, called the destruction "shocking and heartbreaking." He also said the Israeli shelling of several U.N.-run schools and an attack that set fire to the U.N.'s main warehouse were disgraceful.  "It is an outrageous and totally unacceptable attack against the United Nations," he said. "I have protested many times and I protest again today in the strongest terms."  Ban pledged that the U.N. will do all it can to mobilize international aid to help rebuild devastated homes and lives here.

Good Friday morning - here are our early stories: Strong Earthquake Strikes Japan, Triggering Small Tsunami. And here are more early headlines: Skittish Investors Waiting For Latest Unemployment Rate News. (MarketWatch) Egyptian Opposition Refuses To Hold Talks With President Morsi. (BBC) Hamas Political Leader Visits Gaza For Visit After Conflict With Israel. (Bloomberg) Syria Situation Is 'Accelerating', Warns Clinton. (CNN) Hurricane Kills More Than 500 In Philippines, Just As Many Missing. (VOA) George Zimmerman Sues NBC For 'Yellow Journalism' In Martin Shooting Coverage. (Orlando Sentinel) Report: U.S. Seeks To Ease Rules On Brain Injury And Veterans' Benefits. (New York Times) NHL Contract Talks Break Down Again; No Pro Hockey On Horizon. (ESPN) Whale Carcass Rotting In Malibu Emits 'Severe' Stench For Residents. (Los Angeles Times)


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If you've ever wanted to volunteer at the Cincinnati Zoo, listen to this week's Field Notes with Thane Maynard as he talks with long-time volunteer Russ Rosen about next weekend's training program.

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Question: The Mike Todd Party: Cronkite Recalls a TV Low

Over a long career, former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite has been at the center of some of broadcasting’s most sublime and memorable moments. But 46 years ago, Cronkite was conscripted into a program that --  even by today’s standards of decadence -- has stood for more than four decades as one of television’s most memorably vulgar events: the 1957 Mike Todd party at Madison Square Garden. On the first anniversary of the release of his film Around the World in 80 Days, producer Mike Todd and his wife Elizabeth Taylor invited 18,000 of their "close friends" to a Madison Square Garden extravaganza. Boasting a long list of celebrities, an enormous cake and music from Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, Todd conned the CBS program Playhouse 90 into covering the spectacle live.  But when the crowd got out of control, a bland publicity stunt turned into a giant food fight. Cronkite recalls the disastrous night.

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Stories: 1) The 'Big Fan' Team: Patton Oswalt, Robert Siegel 2) The Subhumans' Timeless Hardcore Punk


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Question: Friday News Roundup - International

The World Health Organization declared an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a global health emergency. More than 1,600 people are dead. From The Guardian:  “This is perhaps the most complicated epidemic the world has ever had to face, yet still the response in the DRC remains overstretched and underfunded,” said Dr Josie Golding, epidemics lead at Wellcome. “A step-up in the response, led by the DRC and with full international support, is critical if we are to bring the epidemic to an end. This must include enhanced diplomatic, public health, security and logistic efforts as well as releasing much needed financial resources.”  And in Sudan, the military and civilian activists reached a deal to share power. But questions still remain about how power will be divided and transferred. NPR reports:  The deal establishes a joint civilian-military sovereign council to govern Sudan during a three-year transition period before elections. The council will be made up of five civilians, five people from the military, and an 11th person to be chosen by the council. A military leader will head the council for the first 21 months, and then a civilian leader will lead it for the following 18 months.  In Europe, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the new president of the European Union Commission, the first woman to hold the position. To take on the new role, she resigned as Germany’s defense minister. Der Spiegel identifies her as a center-right politician. One of her biggest challenges will be trying to lead the EU through Brexit. And Christine Lagarde resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund this week. She is currently in the nomination process to lead the European Central Bank. A recent video showed Lagarde reacting to a comment made by the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, while in conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emanuel Macron. The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, was arrested in the United States based on “accusations he received $20 million as part of a bribery scandal that has engulfed the region,” according to The New York Times. More from The Times:  The charges are related to Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction giant that admitted in 2016 to paying $800 million in bribes to secure large infrastructure contracts throughout the region. The scandal has been particularly explosive in Peru: One president resigned as a result, while an ex-president committed suicide this year as the police were coming to arrest him on corruption charges.  And the United States is planning to send hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia amid high tensions in the region. This move comes as Iran says it has seized another foreign oil tanker in the Gulf region. The Revolutionary Guard says the foreign tanker, the origin of which has not yet been identified, was smuggling fuel. Twelve people were on board. We wrap up a busy week in global news. GUESTS Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst; vice president and director of the international security program at New America; author of “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists”; @peterbergencnn Indira Lakshmanan, Executive editor, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; columnist, The Boston Globe;  @Indira_L David Lawler, World news editor, Axios; @davidlawler10 For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2019 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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Question: EU Court Orders France To Compensate Somali Pirates

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered France to pay up to 7,000 euros in compensation to each of nine Somali pirates who were detained after hijacking two French yachts in the Gulf of Aden in 2008. Some of the pirates seized the 290-foot luxury yacht Le Ponant in the Gulf of Aden, taking hostage 30 people, including 22 French nationals. Others were involved in hijacking the second vessel, a 50-foot sailboat. French commandos retook both vessels in separate raids, months apart, after ransoms amounting to about $2 million were paid in each incident. The ECHR ruled Thursday that under the European Convention on Human Rights, the pirates — who were held for several days before being transferred to France — should have been brought before a French judge "without delay." The convention's Article 5.3 "was not designed to give the authorities the opportunity to intensify their investigations for the purpose of bringing formal charges against the suspects," a court statement said. France 24 says:  "France was ordered to pay between €5,000 and €2,000 [$6,100 and $2,500] to each pirate for 'moral damages,' plus amounts varying from €3,000 to €9,000 [$3,700 and $11,200] to cover legal costs. "In the ruling, published in French, the court nevertheless acknowledged that there were 'completely exceptional circumstances' to justify a lengthy detention before seeing a judge, noting that the original arrests took place 'more than 6,000 kilometres [4,000 miles] from French territory.' "  At the time of the arrest of the nine Somalis, piracy off the Horn of Africa was a growing problem. A U.S.-led crackdown in recent years has resulted in a steep drop in incidents in the region.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- European Leaders: Trust Is At Stake Over Alleged U.S. Spying. -- Norway Says It Can't Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons. And here are more early headlines: Sebelius Criticizes Her Detractors, Says Health Care Website Will Improve. (AP) France Orders Large Anti-Terrorism Sweep In Mali. (France24) FDA Moves For Tighter Control Over Painkillers. (The Hill) International Court Rules Kenyan Official Must Attend His Trial. (VOA) Thailand's Buddhist Patriarch Dies At 100. (UPI) Italian Police Arrest Ring Of Corrupt Morticians. (Reuters)


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A Church Divided: Episcopalians Split Over Gay and Lesbian Clergy -- Questions over the ordination of gays and lesbians have Episcopalians in the Central Valley voting on whether to break away from the national church. Also, a new exhibit in San Francisco explores the nature of listening, from eavesdropping to music appreciation.

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


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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.

Old rockers come back for more wild times on the grapevine.


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Question: Tough Economy Doesn't Help U.S. 'Innovation Gap'

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have declared that science and technology are essential to America's security and success. Judy Estrin, author of  Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy, explains the importance of scientific innovation. IRA FLATOW, host:  Up next, innovation in America.  The federal investment in basic and applied research is projected to fall.  That's to go down for the fifth year in a row now under the new budget according to the American Association for the advancement of science.  The National Academies says it's deeply concerned that the scientific and technological building blocks critical to our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength.  This summer, Bell Labs, the famous Bell Laboratories, credited with the invention of the transistor, the home to six Nobel Prize winners, shuttered its basic research department.  Is Bell Labs a bell weather for the future of science in this country?  Here to talk about how to encourage science and innovation is Judy Estrin.  Judy is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the former chief technology officer at Cisco.  And the author of the new book "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy."  Welcome to the program.  Ms. JUDY ESTRIN (Author):  Hi.  Thank you.  FLATOW:  Thank you.  Let's talk about the gap.  What do you mean by an innovation gap?  Ms. ESTRIN:  So, when I talk about an innovation gap many people have said to me, am I referring to a gap between the United States and other counties?  And actually, I'm not, because I think that we should not think of innovation as a zero-sum game or a competition with other countries.  We want the whole world to be innovative. But what we don't want is for everybody else to be innovative and for us to fall short.  And so, the gap that I'm referring to is the gap between where we are now and where we were once as well as where we are now and where we could be, where we should be and where we have the potential to be.  FLATOW:  1-800-989-8255 if you'd like to talk about innovation on Talk of the Nation Science Friday from NPR News.  When you say from where we are now, where we are now from where we were once, why did that gap develop?  Ms. ESTRIN:  Well, I think there are number of reasons. But when I say once, I think back to the couple of decades or the decade after World War II when the country was really inspired to respect science, get involved in science and both the research communities as well as the development environment - in terms of developing corporations developing products - the beginning of Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship.  All of those forces were aligned and the leaders of the country were energized and inspired the country to get involved in science and technology and driving innovation throughout the country.    As the decades progressed, and it began in the 70s when we started to decrease our investment in basic research and basic science, we started allocating research funds to certain fields and not others.  In the corporate arena in the 70s and 80s, the focus was on efficiency and productivity.  And as you focus more and more on being efficient, you often take out all of the room in your company for surprises for - and that's where innovation often happens.  And then as we accelerated into the Internet bubble, even Silicon Valley became more about chasing money and less about really innovating and coming up with new technologies to change the world.    And then when the bubble burst, we had the bursting of the bubble, the discovery of all of the corporate scandals and the tragedy of 9/11 which created essentially - the three together created an environment in which people became very, very risk averse.  And the leadership of the country as well as leaders throughout the business world reacted by really pulling in, as opposed to reacting the way the leaders did after World War II to Sputnik and rallying the country.  FLATOW:  This is Talk of the Nation Science Friday from NPR News talking about innovation with Judy Estrin as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, former chief technology officer at Cisco and the author of a new book "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy."  How much of innovation depends on an individual's idea?  In other words, corporate leader Steve Jobs or somebody like that who says I'm going to take the rains, and how much does it depend on government forcing people to be innovative?  Ms. ESTRIN:  Well, I think that - first of all there are multiple types of innovation and there is incremental innovation which is just making something - continuously trying to improve on something which can happen top down in large companies as well as small companies.  But at the innovation, I think that we're really talking is more disruptive, breakthrough innovation that comes from first, basic science and then

Stories: 1) Our Confusing Economy, Explained 2) Parsing Obama's 'National Conversation'


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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is delaying a decision on whether to sign a key security deal with the U.S. that would allow American troops to stay in the region. Former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, who now serves as the Chair of the Center for American Progress, talks to Steve Inskeep about what could happen if the deal isn't signed before 2014.

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: My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico

Guest: Marcus Eriksen, Director of Research and Education for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and an active member of Veterans for Peace

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Question: Swine Flu Simulation Predicts 1,700 Cases By June

Professor's Computer Simulations Show Worst-Case Swine Flu Scenario from Northwestern News on Vimeo. By Frank James How many swine flu cases will the U.S. have in the next four weeks? No one really knows. But computer modeling permits an educated guess and that's where a group of Northwestern University researchers comes in. Based on computer simulations they've run, under a worst-case scenario in which authorities do very little to intervene, we reach 1,700 victims in four weeks. Here's how a Northwestern press release explains it: Associate Professor Dirk Brockmann (http://rocs.northwestern.edu/) and his research group have found that the major areas projected to have incidents in the worst-case scenario include California, Texas and Florida. Worst-case scenario means that no measures have been taken to combat the spread of disease. These numbers would, of course, be lessened by preventive measures already under way.   Under the worst-case scenario, more than 100 cases are projected for the Chicago area. The affected locations largely correspond to major transportation hubs in the country. The researchers also will be running simulations on the possible time course of the spread of swine flu in Europe.   Brockmann says their swine flu results are in excellent agreement to those of a research group at Indiana University led by Alex Vespignani that is using a different method.  Read More >>  "The Indiana group uses a different computational approach, and the agreement of our results is promising and an indicator of reliability in both methods," says Brockmann, associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/).   Brockmann and his doctoral students Christian Thiemann, Rafael Brune and Alejandro Morales-Gallardo are constantly updating the simulation, taking into account new information on confirmed cases and more precise information on transmissibility and disease-specific parameters.   Brockmann has extensive experience modeling the spread of disease. His high-performance computer clusters can be used to simulate an infectious disease that spreads among 300 million people.   "We can, on a very realistic scale, try to model an epidemic that has the same size as a real epidemic," he says. In order to understand how disease travels, Brockmann also must understand human transportation networks.  Of course, the number of actual cases should be less than the Brockmann team's worst-case scenario since measures, including some fairly aggressive ones like school closings and even some mandatory isolation of suspected cases, are occurring in various jurisdictions. Even if the Brockmann team's worst-case scenario materializes, the nation's healthcare system should be able to cope with that level of new cases though there could conceivably be local problems in places with not enough health providers. That means we should reach the summer, when the swine flu virus like other influenza viruses, is expected to go to ground without straining available healthcare resources. The big and worrisome question, which Brockmann likely can't simulate very well since there are too many unknowns, is what happens next fall when flu viruses always make their return in the northern hemisphere, especially after this H1N1 virus has once again reassembled its genetic material, adding new genetic information from other viruses?

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Commuter Train Derails, Plunges Into Creek East Of San Francisco. -- National Portrait Gallery Honors Nancy Reagan; Funeral Is Friday. -- Survivor Of Boston Marathon Bombing Dies In Car Crash In Dubai. And here are more early headlines: Turkey Agrees To Take Back Future Migrants In Europe For More Aid. (Reuters) Syrian Rebels Undecided About Next Round Of Peace Talks. (Wall Street Journal) Four States Hold Presidential Contests Today. (USA Today) On 2nd Anniversary Of MH370's Disappearance, No Further Clues. (BBC) South Korea Imposes New Sanctions On North Korea. (Washington Post) National Weather Service Warns Of Storms, Flooding In The South. (NWS) Study Finds Pedestrian Deaths Apparently Surged In 2015. (ABC) Alabama Brinks Worker Admits Stealing $200,000 - In Quarters. (Al.com)


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Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Inhabiting the Ball the third album by Chicago singer-songwriter Jim Roll. It features collaborations with novelists Rick Moody and Denis Johnson.