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All Things Considered is a NPR radio newsmagazine that delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. The program presents breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special -- sometimes quirky -- features.

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Middle East
5:33 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Syrian Refugees Move Into Lebanon's Crowded Camps

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The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are overcrowded and run down. But Syrian refugees are moving in as they flee the fighting in their homeland.
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Originally published on Sun September 9, 2012 8:34 am

The conflict in Syria is sending a staggering number of refugees into neighboring countries. Turkey, Jordan and even Iraq are building tent cities.

But Lebanon has yet to build such camps. The country is already home to more than a dozen teeming, squalid camps for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled the war after Israel's creation in 1948, as well as their descendants.

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Politics
4:49 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Obama More Partisan, Practical Than Four Years Ago

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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 7:09 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.

Four years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama took the stage in Denver to accept his party's presidential nomination. He spoke of overcoming partisanship and economic turmoil. Well, tonight, President Obama will do it again with four years of experience under his belt. Since taking office, he has struggled to overcome a crushing recession, a weak recovery and a deeply divided electorate.

NPR's Scott Horsley has this story on the path the president has traveled.

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Author Interviews
4:37 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Getting Around To Writing 'Art Of Procrastination'

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John Perry is the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and co-host of the public radio program Philosophy Talk.
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Originally published on Mon September 10, 2012 11:12 am

At the end of July, when NPR's Robert Siegel set off on the longest vacation since his honeymoon 39 years ago, he packed a few books, including the new book The Art of Procrastination by John Perry, emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford.

After two weeks in Delaware, two weeks in Iberia and a week of work in Tampa, Fla., Siegel finally finished it Wednesday night. He says his timing is fitting: The book is 92 small, double-spaced pages.

It expands on a short confessional essay Perry wrote in 1996 called "Structured Procrastination."

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Election 2012
4:32 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Colorado Brewery Head One Of Few CEOs At The DNC

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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 7:09 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

And I'm Audie Cornish at the Democratic National Convention.

All week the conversation here has been about jobs. But other than a primetime appearance by Costco's co-founder, big business supporters have been MIA. I did find a meeting of progressive business leaders, where I met a CEO named Kim Jordan.

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Music Reviews
3:26 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Cat Power Rips It Up, Starts Again

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Chan Marshall, better known by the name Cat Power, takes a new approach on her latest record, Sun.
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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 7:09 pm

I recently listened to the first single from the new Cat Power album with some fellow fans, and the room was deeply divided. Some thought the song was fabulous, but others were startled and upset — which I could understand, sort of. Chan Marshall's songs generally speak to pain and trauma with a hushed and intimate musical vocabulary. But this song, "Ruin," was different — not just a rock 'n' roll song, but one you might even want to dance to.

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Latin America
10:34 am
Thu September 6, 2012

Guess Who's Chopping Down The Amazon Now?

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Loggers discuss the day's plan in a camp called Puesto Viejo, or "old post."
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Tree logs are marked for shipping.
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A logger watches a machine move logs to be measured, trimmed and marked before inspection by ABT — Bolivia's agency of forests and land. They will then be transported to Ascencion de Guarayos.
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A worker measures logs. They will be trimmed if they are deemed too long for transport.
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A truck takes logs to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos in the Bolivian Amazon jungle.
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Among the eight countries that the Amazon spans, Bolivia has the highest rate of deforestation. Here, Agustin Villa cuts down timber in the Amazon jungle. The logs will be transported to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos, Santa Cruz province.
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Every year in Bolivia, a swath of forest two-thirds the size of Delaware is cleared of trees. The trees range from silk-cotton hardwoods and fig trees to ceibas — some of them 80 feet tall and decades old.
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The town of Ascencion de Guarayos is the gateway to the Amazon jungle in Santa Cruz province. Here, brass band musicians walk on the streets during a festival.
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Agustin Villa cuts down a tree in the Amazon jungle, in Santa Cruz province, Bolivia, 2012.
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Logs in the Bolivian forest are moved, measured, trimmed and tagged for inspection by ABT — the Bolivian agency of forests and land — before being transported by truck to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos.
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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 8:20 pm

Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise.

As a result, the 40 percent of Amazonia located in a moon-shaped arc of countries from Bolivia to Colombia to French Guiana faces a more serious threat than the jungle in Brazil. The culprits range from ranching to soybean farming, logging to infrastructure development projects.

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Crisis In The Housing Market
5:53 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Democratic Convention Draws Troubled Homeowners

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David Sole rode a bus from Detroit to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., to protest how the Obama administration and the nation's banks have handled the foreclosure crisis.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 7:03 pm

Charlotte, N.C., host of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, is the nation's biggest financial center outside of New York. But Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County have the highest foreclosure rates in the state, and many thousands of homeowners owe more on their homes than the properties are worth.

As thousands of Democrats converge in Charlotte for the convention, some troubled homeowners have also gathered, lamenting that the foreclosure crisis has not been sufficiently front and center in the presidential campaign.

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Music News
5:16 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Music Is Everywhere: John Cage At 100

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John Cage during his 1966 concert at the opening of the National Arts Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 6:05 pm

OK, let's get the elephant out of the room right away. John Cage's most famous, or infamous, work is "4'33"," in which a musician walks onstage and sits at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

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The Salt
5:09 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Recession Still Hurting U.S. Families Trying To Put Food On The Table

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Jacque Holland, 43, of Milwaukee picks up food at the food pantry at United Methodist Children's Services of Wisconsin.
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Originally published on Wed September 19, 2012 4:12 pm

The number of U.S. families struggling to put enough food on the table remains at record-high levels, according to new figures out today from the government. Last year, 1 in almost 7 households were what the government calls "food insecure." That's about the same level as in 2010, but still far higher than before the recession.

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Space
4:25 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

After 35 Years, Voyager Nears Edge Of Solar System

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In addition to surveying the planets, the Voyager mission also spent time studying the planets' satellites, or moons. This mosaic image, taken in 1989, shows Neptune's largest satellite, Triton. Triton has the coldest surface temperature known anywhere in the solar system.
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The two Voyager spacecraft launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Sept. 5, 1977, on a mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. This true-color image, captured by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981, shows the moons Dione (small dot at left) and Rhea (lower right) near Saturn.
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As Voyager 1 passed by Jupiter on Feb. 5, 1979, it captured this image of the planet and its Great Red Spot, as well as three of its four largest moons — Io, Europa and Callisto.
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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, seen here in an image from Voyager 1 taken on Feb. 25, 1979, is a giant, hurricane-like storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. It's been documented for at least 400 years by astronomers viewing the planet through telescopes.
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After the Voyager craft surveyed Jupiter and Saturn, NASA extended their mission and sent Voyager 2 on to Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 kept traveling outward. This image of Uranus was captured by Voyager 2 in 1986, when it was about 600,000 miles from the planet. Uranus' pale blue-green color is a result of methane in the atmosphere.
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About three years later, in 1989, Voyager 2 reached Neptune, where it captured this high-resolution color image, which shows bright cloud streaks on the planet.
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This image, also taken in 1989, was the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
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Violin with music score (Cavatina)
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The Golden Record
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Mathematical definitions
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Earth
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DNA structure
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Diagram of conception
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Diagram of continental drift
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Diagram of vertebrate evolution
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Man from Guatemala
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Schoolroom
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Children with globe
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Supermarket
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Demonstration of licking, eating and drinking
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House (Africa)
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X-ray of hand
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Street scene, Asia (Pakistan)
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Astronaut in space
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The two Voyager spacecraft launched on Aug. 20 and Sept. 5, 1977, on a mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. This true-color image, captured by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981, shows the moons Dione (small dot at left) and Rhea (lower right) near Saturn.
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This artist's drawing shows one of the Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 is hurtling toward the edge of the solar system and might be close to reaching interstellar space, researchers say.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 7:31 pm

The Voyager 1 spacecraft's 35th anniversary is proving to be unexpectedly exciting, as scientists gathered this week to examine new hints that the spacecraft is on the verge of leaving our solar system.

Voyager 1 is now more than 11 billion miles away from Earth. It blasted off in September 1977, on a mission to Jupiter and Saturn. But it also carried a Golden Record filled with music and the sounds of our planet, in case it encountered intelligent life as it moved out toward the stars.

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