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Journey Of A Specialty Coffee Bean: From Cherry To Cup
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- Journey Of A Specialty Coffee Bean: From Cherry To Cup
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- 13 years ago
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- That tasty cup of java from your favorite gourmet coffee shop began life on a farm thousands of miles away. Farmers who cater to the specialty coffee market compete on quality. And some use the higher prices their beans fetch to reinvest in their businesses and improve conditions for workers.
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- Two Ways To Make A Dune | SKUNK BEAR
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- 13 years ago
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- As communities rebuild their dune systems after Hurricane Sandy, scientists warn that man-made dunes just aren't as sturdy as natural ones.
For the radio story, visit: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/15/170459890/after-sandy-not-all-sand-dunes-are-created-equal
Produced by Adam Cole
Senior Producers: Vikki Valentine, Ben de la Cruz
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- Inauguration Mashup: The Perfect Speech In 11 Simple Steps
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- 13 years ago
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- In the unlikely scenario that you one day find yourself delivering an inaugural address, there are a few things you should know. Our systematic and scientific analysis of past inaugural addresses has yielded 11 easy steps to the perfect speech.
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- Dear Mr. President
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- 13 years ago
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- President Obama will soon be sworn into office, and whether you voted for him or not, he's everybody's president. What do you want him to remember in his second term? http://inauguration2013.tumblr.com/
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- Between A Rumba And A Roll: Dissecting A Bartender's Beat
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The way bartenders shake their cocktails has practically evolved into their signature beats. Some shake hard, some shake over the shoulder, some shake in front. Most bartenders say the shake is essential to a perfect drink — but is it all style or is there some substance to the claim?
To learn more about the bartender's shake go here: http://n.pr/S7tFH3
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- Southword: Coming Home -- And Out -- In Arkansas
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- 13 years ago
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- Going home can stir up mixed emotions: There's the joy of catching up, nostalgia, old flames -- grudges. Even if you haven't really considered it "home" for a decade (you probably left for a good reason) -- there's something that keeps you coming back.
For Chad Griffin, it's his mom. But he also has a cause. He's is the new president of the Human Rights Campaign, a powerful gay rights group in Washington, D.C. He came out as gay in Arkansas many years ago, and now his work is to make life easier for gay youth there.
NPR teamed up with Oxford American magazine to bring you this slice of life in the south -- the latest in our ongoing series, Southword. More here: http://n.pr/Q7oQKs
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- A View From The Ground: Thailand Confronts Drug-Resistant Malaria
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- 13 years ago
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- Global deaths from malaria have dropped sharply in the past decade, thanks in part to powerful drugs called artemisinins. But on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, doctors are starting to see cracks in artemisinin's armor. The medicine is working more slowly, and sometimes not at all.
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- Herbs And Empires: A Brief History Of Malaria Drugs | SKUNK BEAR
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- 13 years ago
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- What do Jesuit priests, gin and tonics, and ancient Chinese scrolls have in common? They all show up in our animated history of malaria.
It's a story of geopolitical struggles, traditional medicine, and above all, a war of escalation between scientists and a tiny parasite. Malaria has proved to be a wily foe: Every time we think we have it backed into a corner, it somehow escapes.
Produced by
Adam Cole
Senior Producer
Ben de la Cruz
Production Assistance
Michaeleen Doucleff
Karen Farfan
Music
"Danse Macabre," Camille Saint-Saëns
Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Data
Farooq U., Mahajan, R.C. (2004) Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
Mockenhaupt, F. P. (1995) Parasitology Today
Pyae Phyo et al. (2012) The Lancet
Talisun, A.O., et. al.(2004) Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Sound Effects
freesound.org: benboncan, daikirai, digifis...
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- Princess Marty, The Party Princess
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Her highness — known outside the big dress as Mary Alice LeGrow — is a professional party princess. She uses her best princess voice and dresses up in full regalia to charm children. But life in the kingdom isn't all candy and sugarplums; it takes a lot of muscle to be a princess. Produced by Kainaz Amaria.
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- The Amazing Morphing Campaign Money Map
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- A creative cartographical approach to election spending. This animated map is based on money spent by SuperPACs and other outside groups on presidential political ads between April 10th and October 10th 2012.
Note: In a previous version of this video, the final map was labeled with the money spent per thousand potential voters - not per voter. That error has been corrected in this version. Of course, the relative proportions remain the same.
Produced by Adam Cole
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- Sandy's Rainstorm
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Watch as Sandy dumps large amounts of water across the Northeast over the past few days. Based on estimates published hourly by the National Digital Forecast Database.
Produced by Adam Cole
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- Human-Powered Helicopter: Straight Up Difficult | SKUNK BEAR
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- youtube.com/skunkbear
Read the full story here:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/14/160670295/flight-club-human-powered-helicopter
http://skunkbear.tumblr.com
It's difficult to build a working four-rotor helicopter that spans 100 feet and only weighs 80 pounds. It's even harder when your engine is a 0.7-horsepower person. But one team of engineering students is trying to do just that.
Produced by
Maggie Starbard
Correspondent
Adam Cole
Senior Editor
Ben De La Cruz
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- In Nigerian Gold Rush, Lead Poisons Thousands Of Children
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Across a swath of northern Nigeria, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding, as lead from illegal gold mines sickens thousands of children.
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- How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Smokey the Bear was supposed to prevent fires. But scientists now say the fire-prevention campaign is one of the main causes of today's devastating mega-fires. Photos by David Gilkey, video by Ben de la Cruz, Christopher Joyce, John W. Poole and Vikki Valentine.
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- Coffee Is The New Wine. Here's How You Taste It
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Specialty roasters increasingly are working directly with coffee growers around the world to produce coffees as varied in taste as wines. At Artifact Coffee in Baltimore they're teaching their clientele to appreciate the subtle characteristics of brews by bringing cupping, an age-old ritual once limited to coffee insiders, to the coffee-sipping masses.
Learn more at NPR:
http://n.pr/R4NHyw
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- Changing the Image of AIDS
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- 14 years ago
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- Photographer David Binder began documenting stories about AIDS in the late 1980s and became well known for humanizing the epidemic for various publications, including Life magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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- NPR's 'What's Your Big Idea?' Contest
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- 14 years ago
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- Do you have a good idea? Something that could change the world? NPR wants to know. Our new "What's Your Big Idea?" video contest will showcase the big ideas of people ages 13 to 25. It's all part of our exploration of the process of innovation and invention. So, what's your big idea?
Get the contest details here:
http://www.npr.org/bigidea
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- Meet Al Black: Former Florida Prison Painter
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Al Black is one of 26 artists known as The Highwaymen that were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2004. But it was decades ago that, if you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1, you might have encountered them selling their lushly painted oil landscapes from their cars. Since then, their reputation has grown, but so has something else: Tension on their native turf in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The story of Al Black is exceptional: Drug addiction led to prison -- where he was given permission to paint his landscapes on the walls. Now out of jail, he gives a tour of where he once painted.
This video is part of "Southword," an ongoing multimedia collaboration between NPR and Oxford American magazine. (Video by Dave Anderson)
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- Water In The Time Of Cholera: Haiti's Most Urgent Health Problem
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Life for most Haitians is a constant struggle for clean water. And now that cholera has invaded Haiti, safe drinking water has become Haiti's most urgent public health problem. The disease has killed more than 7,000 people since late 2010.
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- Tiny Desk Kitchen: The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Thiamine mononitrate, disodium inosinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride. In this episode of Tiny Desk Kitchen we explore why so many hard-to-pronounce ingredients ended up in a school burger.
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- Catching Up With Flu | SKUNK BEAR
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When sick people search the Web for remedies or tweet about their symptoms, they're sending an early warning signal about disease outbreaks. Now scientists and public health officials are listening in.
Credit: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard
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- Pop-Up Politics: Mitt Romney's Iowa Stump Speech
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- 14 years ago
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- Watch Mitt Romney give a stump speech with a little more context. As VH1 did with music videos, we added pop-up bubbles and animation to excerpted segments of standard Iowa speeches from top GOP candidates — embellishments that we hope will give you a better sense of the candidates and how they're selling themselves to voters. Part of an ongoing series. See more on NPR.org: http://n.pr/tzn3SX
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- Pop-Up Politics: Ron Paul's Iowa Stump Speech
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Watch Ron Paul give a stump speech with a little more context. As VH1 did with music videos, we added pop-up bubbles and animation to excerpted segments of standard Iowa speeches from top GOP candidates — embellishments that we hope will give you a better sense of the candidates and how they're selling themselves to voters. Part of an ongoing series. See more on NPR.org: http://n.pr/tzn3SX
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- Pop-Up Politics: Newt Gingrich's Iowa Stump Speech
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Watch Newt Gingrich give a stump speech with a little more context. As VH1 did with music videos, we added pop-up bubbles and animation to excerpted segments of standard Iowa speeches from top GOP candidates — embellishments that we hope will give you a better sense of the candidates and how they're selling themselves to voters. Part of an ongoing series. See more on NPR.org: http://n.pr/tzn3SX
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- The Slammer: Mug-Shot Tabloids Spread Across The South
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The tabloid — with names such as "Cellmates," "Jailbirds," "Just Busted" — shows mug shots of those arrested every week in different cities around the country. In Arkansas, The Slammer sells 7,000 copies a week. But law enforcement says it doesn't help solve cases — it's just voyeuristic.
This video is part of "Southword," an ongoing multimedia collaboration between NPR and Oxford American magazine.
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- To Save Wildlife, Namibia's Farmers Take Control
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- It's as though the U.S. government said to the people who live around Yellowstone National Park, "You know what? All those wild animals in the park — the grizzlies, the bison, the wolves — they belong to you."
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- Poisoned Places: Tonawanda, N.Y.
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- 14 years ago
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- It's difficult to definitively link any one person's illness to air pollution from a particular plant. But the concerns about the health effects of Tonawanda Coke's toxic pollution rallied a small group of people in Tonawanda — most of them sick — to force complacent regulators to clean up their air. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/10/142189390/tonawanda-provides-lessons-for-fighting-toxic-air
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- 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? | SKUNK BEAR
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Subscribe to NPR! http://bit.ly/NPRsubscribe
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West.
As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, the rates of fertility — and population growth — have started to slow down, though the population will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
U.N. forecasts suggest the world population could hit a peak of 10.1 billion by 2100 before beginning to decline. But exact numbers are hard to come by — just small variations in fertility rates could mean a population of 15 billion by the end of the century.
Produced by Adam Cole
Cinematography by Maggie Starbard
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- Tiny Desk Kitchen: What The Heck Is A Pawpaw?
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- The pawpaw is a tropical-type fruit native to North America with a long and almost forgotten history. Thomas Jefferson once prized it, and now scientists are looking at whether the pawpaw can claim some health benefits, along with cachet. NPR's Tiny Desk Kitchen goes on the hunt for this tasty treat.
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- Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun | SKUNK BEAR | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 15 years ago
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- Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes upsetting.
Credit: Adam Cole, Robert Krulwich, Maggie Starbard/NPR
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- The Astronaut's Guide To Life In Space
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- 15 years ago
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- NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. The footage, which we edited, arrived on VHS. We don't know much about it, except that it's playful in tone, so we decided to have some fun with it, too. Here's an "instructional video" on survival in space, in case we ever decide to resurrect the program.
Credit: Emily Bogle & Mito Habe-Evans/NPR
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- Vintage NASA Footage: An Underwater Space Odyssey
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- 15 years ago
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- Dive into the Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator with 1970s astronauts as they train for zero gravity. We put some ambient music to vintage video footage from NASA to create an 'immersive' experience.
(Video footage: NASA/National Archives, Music: Nicholas Szczepanik/Streamline)
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- A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The Decades
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- 15 years ago
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- Over three decades, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour flew more than 100 missions. NPR takes a look back at some of the momentous video that came out of NASA's space shuttle program.
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- Chili-Cheese And Sweet Tea: Candidates "Call It" At The Beacon
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- 15 years ago
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- South Carolina's "first in the South" primary has a track record of picking the Republican presidential nominee. So you can bet the GOP contenders visit early and often. No matter who the candidate, it wouldn't be a campaign without a visit to The Beacon Drive-In in Spartansburg. Candidates including Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have lined up to order a chili-cheeseburger from blind counterman J.C. Stroble -- a Beacon fixture for more than half a century.
This video is part of "Southword," an ongoing multimedia collaboration between NPR and Oxford American magazine.
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- Expert Grilling: Barbecue, Peaches And Spicy Corn
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- 15 years ago
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- Grill master Steven Raichlen shares a few tips and techniques in anticipation of July Fourth festivities.
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- Behind The Scenes And 'Back To The Future' With Photographer Irina Werning
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- 15 years ago
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- What started as a personal project has become an Internet sensation: In the series, "Back To The Future," adults recreate their own childhood photos. And almost overnight, photographer Irina Werning has gone from shooting friends and family to NFL superstar Chris Cooley.
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- Sensorium: Dinner With A Side Of Memory
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- 15 years ago
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- A supper club extravaganza staged in Washington, D.C., this spring enlisted all the senses — and some actors and musicians, too — to enhance diners' experience and memory of the food.
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- Southword: Living Large In Mississippi
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- 15 years ago
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- What makes bad food so good? NPR's Debbie Elliott and Dave Anderson, filmmaker for Oxford American, team up to explore issues of appetite and health in Holmes County, the most obese county in Mississippi. It's the first of an ongoing spotlight on the South called Southword. (Video by Dave Anderson Photography/Oxford American)
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- Voices From Afghanistan: Combat Post Chakrh
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- 15 years ago
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- Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division has seen some of the fiercest combat of the war in the past six months while fighting for control of the central bazaar in Charkh, Afghanistan.
With about 140 soldiers, it has racked up 50 Purple Hearts in grenade and mortar attacks, ambushes and straight-ahead gun fights. The company has lost five soldiers.
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- The Golden Gate Bridge's Accidental Color
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- 15 years ago
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- The orange hue of the Golden Gate Bridge was an accident of history. San Francisco owes the iconic color of its bridge to Irving Morrow, the consulting architect, who noticed the striking reddish-orange hue of the primer coat, and lobbied to have it made permanent.
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- Nashville: Up From Prostitution
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- 15 years ago
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- Prostitution is ubiquitous. For those involved, life can be an unending cycle of abuse, addiction and arrest. But one rehabilitation program in Nashville, Tenn. seems to be turning many of those lives around. It's called Magdalene.
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- Lifting The Veil
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- 15 years ago
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- http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135413427/lifting-the-veil
For centuries, Islamic scholars have said that Muslim women must cover their hair. But many Muslim women don't. There are about 1 million Muslim women in America; 43 percent of them wear headscarves all the time, according to the Pew Research Center. About 48 percent — or half a million women — don't cover their hair, the survey found. The split between women who've covered and women who've never done so has existed for decades. But now a generation of women is taking off the headscarf, or hijab. Although the scarf is a public, sometimes even political symbol, women say the choice to unveil is highly private, emotional and religious.
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- 'Suicide By Cop' Leads Soldier On Chase Of His Life
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- 15 years ago
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- In the fall of 2010, NPR and ProPublica published an investigation about five soldiers who suffered traumatic brain injuries from the same explosion in Iraq. The report also explored the cognitive and emotional problems they've been having ever since. Twelve days later, one of the soldiers, Brock Savelkoul, piled an armload of guns and semi-automatic weapons into his pickup and led police on a high-speed chase across North Dakota.
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- From Lens To Photo: Sally Mann Captures Her Love
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- 15 years ago
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- Sally Mann, considered one of the most influential photographers of her time, has recently focused her work on her husband of 40 years, Larry. About 15 years ago, Larry was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Mann photographed him in a project called "Proud Flesh." "He's really brave," she says. (Photos by Sally Mann; Produced by Bilal Qureshi and Claire O'Neill/NPR)
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- A Sinking Nation
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- 15 years ago
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- Kiribati is a nation made up of 33 tiny islands, scattered across an area of the Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Alaska. The average height of the islands is approximately 6.5 feet. Land is scarce and drinking water can be in short supply. There's nowhere to retreat.
At the most recent round of United Nations climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, Kiribati President Anote Tong said the rising sea could "ultimately lead to the demise of island countries like Kiribati," within 50 years.
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- Wrongfully Convicted: Flawed Autopsies Send Two Innocent Men To Jail
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Two Mississippi men spent a combined 30 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. They were separately charged with sexually assaulting and murdering two 3-year-old girls — in two separate crimes — two years apart. The pathologist who conducted both autopsies said he suspected the girls had been bitten. They were innocent.
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- Paris Underground
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- 15 years ago
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- Paris, City of Light, really is a tale of two cities. One of them is above ground, with its beloved Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. That's the city the world sees. And then there's the city very few us will ever see -- an underground Paris, the 'souterrain.' NPR's Jacki Lyden and National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez teamed up to see what lies below. (Photographs by Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic)
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- Tilt-Shift, Stop-Motion Squatting In Hillside Haiti
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- 15 years ago
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- A few miles outside Port-au-Prince is a government-established camp for displaced people — Camp Corail, the only "official" camp in Haiti. Rows and rows of neatly spaced tents provide shelter for thousands of people. But just past Corail, a more "organic" community has sprouted. Nearly 100,000 squatters have taken things into their own hands and taken to the hills.
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- Robert Krulwich: Why Can't We Walk Straight? | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Try as you might, you can't walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you're walking straight, but as NPR's Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
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- The Dirty Truth About That Other Jersey Shore
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- The Full Story, here: http://www.npr.org/2010/11/08/131167397/the-dirty-truth-about-that-other-jersey-shore
