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The Record
3:41 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Remembering Bert Weedon, Guitar Teacher To Rock Stars (And Many More)

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British guitarist Bert Weedon died Friday at age 91.
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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 6:39 pm

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3:41 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Murdochs, News Corp Face Big Week Of Investigations

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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 6:39 pm

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

In Britain, the allegations keep coming of illegal behavior by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Today, an investigation was announced into email hacking by Sky News. News Corp's British operations already stand accused of phone hacking, along with bribing police officers.

As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the new investigation comes just before Murdoch is scheduled to testify on the sandal.

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Shots - Health Blog
3:16 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Cancer Doc Brawley Says The U.S. Health System Is Sick

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Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 8:48 am

Journalists make for a pretty tough crowd.

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The Salt
3:15 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Are Local Salad Greens Safer Than Packaged Salad Greens?

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Miller Farms in Maryland is a family-run operation that sells its home-grown vegetables at farmers' markets and local grocery stores. Phil Miller, whose family owns the farm, says he's trying to earn a food safety certification now required by many food buyers.
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Phil Miller with this year's crop of cabbage at his farm in Clinton, Md.
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Originally published on Tue April 24, 2012 6:23 am

There were lots of comments on this blog regarding my recent stories about making salads safer. Many of those comments argued that the solution is to grow your own. Or at least buy from local farmers.

Which raises an interesting question: Are salad greens from your local farmer's market actually safer than packaged lettuce from thousands of miles away? And should the same safety rules apply to both?

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History
3:13 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Discovery Sparks Interest In Forgotten Black Scholar

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Three years ago, Rufus McDonald found historic documents in an abandoned house and took them to a rare-books dealer. The papers and books belonged to Richard T. Greener, a 19th century intellectual who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University.
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Greener's 1870 Harvard diploma was among the items found.
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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 6:39 pm

Three years ago, just moments before sledgehammers ripped through an abandoned home in Chicago, the head of a demolition crew decided to save the contents of an old steamer trunk stored in the attic.

"They were about to demolish it because they couldn't get it down the stairs," says Rufus McDonald, who gathered what was inside the steamer trunk — documents and old books — and took them to a rare-book dealer in Chicago.

"He said, 'Do you know who this is?' I said, 'Nah, who is it?' He said, 'It's Richard Theodore Greener," McDonald recalls. "I said, 'Who is he?' "

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Classics in Concert
3:11 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Hear The Opera That Won The Pulitzer

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Kevin Puts' Pulitzer-winning opera recounts a spontaneous cease-fire among Scottish, French and German troups during World War I.
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Near the beginning of the opera, it's December 23rd, 1914, and the three nationalities of soldiers in this story are lined up for a chorus — Scottish in front, French in the rear and Germans in the middle.
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Shots are fired as the French and Scottish soldiers fail miserably in their attempt to storm a German bunker.
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Father Palmer (Troy Cook, right) comforts Scottish soldier Jonathan Dale (John Robert Lindsey), who laments the loss of his brother in the battle.
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In the French bunker, the soldiers are tired and dragging. They sing the "Sleep Chorus" as snow begins to fall.
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It's Christmas Eve on the battlefield. German opera singer Nikolaus Sprink (William Burden, center) wades into no man's land with a small Christmas tree, inspiring a sudden cease-fire. He's accompanied by Scotsman Lieutenant Gordon (Gabriel Preisser, left) and German Lieutenant Horstmayer (Craig Irvin).
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Father Palmer (Troy Cook, center) reads from the Bible in a memorial service for the dead soldiers.
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Anna Sørensen (Karin Wolverton) tells the German Lieutenant Horstmayer that she and her lover, Nicholas Sprink, are prepared to defect and turn themselves into the French as prisoners of war.
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The French Lieutenant Audebert (Liam Bonner) contemplates the surprising, and welcomed, cease-fire.
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French, German and Scottish soldiers sing choruses in their native languages as they write home.
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Near the end of the opera, the German soldiers — led by A. J. Glueckert as Kronprinz, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II (far right), and Craig Irvin as Lieutenant Horstmayer (left) — prepare to be shipped off to the Russian front.
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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 5:27 pm

New York-based composer and Peabody Institute faculty member Kevin Puts has won the Pulitizer Prize for music with Silent Night, his first opera. The work received its world premiere in November at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul.

Pulitzer officials described Silent Night as "a stirring opera that recounts the true story of a spontaneous cease-fire among Scottish, French and Germans during World War I, displaying versatility of style and cutting straight to the heart."

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The Picture Show
2:17 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Are Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?

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Photographer Tanja Hollander is on a mission to make protraits of all of her Facebook friends.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:51 am

The new issue of The Atlantic asks: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? The jury's out, though signs point to maybe.

Facebook didn't necessarily make Tanja Hollander lonely, per se, but it did make her curious. It was a little over two years ago when she looked at that number representing "friends," 626 in her case, and started to analyze it.

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The Two-Way
1:57 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Six Men Ask Judge To Overturn Convictions In Notorious D.C. Murder Case

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In 1985, Chris Turner was convicted of the murder of Catherine Fuller. After spending decades in prison, Turner is now out on parole; he maintains his innocence. He is shown here in his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., about 100 yards away from what was Fuller's home.
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Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 2:29 pm

Six men wearing bright orange prison jumpsuits appeared in a D.C. courtroom today, seeking to overturn their decades-old convictions in a brutal murder by arguing the Justice Department failed to turn over critical evidence that could have helped them assert their innocence.

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1:33 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Op-Ed: Obama And Romney, Quit 'Hispandering'

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Columnist Esther Cepeda says it is "a sign of respect" when candidates reach out to Hispanics by speaking Spanish, but there ought to be substance behind the effort.
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Originally published on Tue April 24, 2012 11:19 am

Esther Cepeda recently learned a new word: "Hispandering." And, she writes in an op-ed for The Washington Post writers group, "it perfectly captures the spirit of the moment" in presidential politics.

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World
1:24 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

Egyptian Elections Complicated By Controversy

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 9:04 am

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NEAL CONAN, HOST:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. In a few weeks, Egyptians vote in a presidential election that many hoped would mark a full transition from military rule. Then the Egyptian Election Commission disqualified 10 candidates, including the two leading Islamists and the former intelligence chief.

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