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The Writer Who Couldn't Read | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
Imagine you wake up one morning and can't read. Your eyes work, but the letters on the page have turned into squiggles. They make no sense. Now meet Howard Engel, a writer of detective stories, who has this condition, but amazingly, has...
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With Brain Injuries, Soldiers Face A Battle For Care
Sgt. Victor Medina, a decorated combat veteran who fought to receive treatment at Texas' Fort Bliss after suffering a brain injury during a roadside blast in Iraq last June. Since the explosion, Medina has had trouble reading,...
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The Fight For Juarez: When Will the Killing End?
The Sinaloa drug cartel has been involved in a bloody battle with a rival cartel for control of Juarez. An NPR investigation, including an analysis of 2,600 arrest documents, found strong evidence that Mexico's drug fight is rigged. In...
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Neda Ulaby on Convenience
NPR's Neda Ulaby discusses making laundry day better with the new NPR iPad site. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Ari Shapiro on Surprise
NPR's Ari Shapiro discusses serendipitous choices on the new NPR iPad app. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Training for War
About 4,000 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division are heading to Afghanistan later this spring. The unit known as "Strike," the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, will be part of one of the war's most challenging operations: taking the southern...
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Reflections On Aging Out of Foster Care
It's a little weird and lonely having an apartment for the first time after growing up in group homes. Josh Mendoza and Katrena Wingo of Tampa, Florida offers their thoughts on living alone. This NPR audio slideshow features photos by...
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The Homeplace
There's a photo tacked over the stove in photographer Sarah Hoskins' home. It's of her and a man named Ernest Talbert, a hog butcher and a pillar of the tiny communities that used to be called the "Negro Hamlets." The clusters of homes...
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The Truth About Grass-Fed Beef: NPR's Tiny Desk KItchen
A decade ago, there were fewer than 50 grass-fed cattle operations in the U.S. Now there are thousands. Clearly people are eating this meat. Trendiness aside, NPR's Allison Aubrey asks: Is grass-fed beef more nutritional than standard,...
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Michel Martin on Clarity
NPR's Michel Martin discusses the joys of reading and the new NPR iPad app. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Neda Ulaby on her Own
NPR's Neda Ulaby discusses being in her own world with the new NPR iPad app. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Sylvia Poggioli on Exploration
NPR's Sylvia Poggioli discusses exploring the world with the new NPR iPad site. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Robert Siegel on Connecting
NPR's Robert Siegel discusses connecting with home and the new iPad app. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Meet Our Toxic Asset
Toxic assets — home mortgages packaged into complicated bonds that no one wanted to touch when the housing bubble collapsed — are starting to trade again. Planet Money wanted to figure out how this chapter of financial history will end....
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Hiromi in Studio 4B
Jazz pianist Hiromi performing 'Choux a la Creme' in NPR's Studio 4B. To hear her interview with Guy Raz and more music, go to http://n.pr/125258328
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See The Birth Of A Solar System
The Hubble Space Telescop delivers something rare to the human eye: the formation of a solar system.
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Scott Simon on Curiosity
Scott Simon discusses the curious nature of NPR listeners and the new iPad app. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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Michel Martin on Discovery
Michel Martin discusses music and the new NPR iPad site. Find out more at - http://www.npr.org/services/mobile/ipad.php
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See The Birth Of A Solar System | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
The Hubble Space Telescop delivers something rare to the human eye: the formation of a solar system.
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Lillian's Story : In Color
Lillian Yonally was one of the few women with a camera during her WASP service from May 1943 to December 1944. Her color photographs offer a rare glimpse into the short-lived program and the female pilots who were ahead of their time....
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Stimulus Snapshots: Health Care
The Belington Clinic in Belington, W.Va., sees over 6,000 patients a year in a town of about 1,600 people. With the passage of the stimulus bill, the clinic was awarded over $1 million.
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Stimulus Snapshots: Energy
Renewable energy is one of the cornerstones of the Recovery Act. But despite loan guarantees, Clipper Windpower's assembly plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, laid off workers in 2009 as orders for new turbines were pushed back.
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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Earth Guide For Aliens
A montage of sights and sounds etched into a record, then launched into space on the Voyager probe.
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A Haitian Doctor Returns To His Homeland To Help
Doctor Henri Ford is chief of surgery at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. But when the earthquake happened, he quickly arranged to return to Haiti and provide medical care.