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Dan Deacon On Computers, College And 'Electronic Music'

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Dan Deacon's latest project combines his signature electronic sound with live musicians and instruments.

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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 8:52 pm

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4:43 pm

Tue August 28, 2012

Malcolm Browne, Journalist Who Took The 'Burning Monk' Photo, Dies

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Journalist Malcome Browne took this iconic photo of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon in 1963. The monk committed suicide to protest what he called government persecution of Buddhists. Browne, who worked for the AP and later The New York Times, died Monday at age 81.

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Browne is pictured in 1965 while working as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Saigon, South Vietnam.

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Browne (left) is seen with AP photographer Horst Faas in the Saigon office, April 3, 1964.

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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 10:36 pm

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Malcolm Browne was a first-rate reporter who spent decades at The New York Times, covered wars around the world and won the Pulitzer Prize for his writing about the early days of the Vietnam war.

And yet he will forever be remembered for one famous picture, the 1963 photo of a Buddhist monk who calmly set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest against the South Vietnamese government, which was being supported by the U.S.

4:27 pm

Tue August 28, 2012

High Profile Names To Speak On RNC's First Full Day

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Originally published on Wed August 29, 2012 1:07 pm

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This afternoon in Tampa, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus raised a gavel.

(SOUNDBITE OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION)

REINCE PRIEBUS: This convention will come to order.

4:27 pm

Tue August 28, 2012

New Orleans Says It's Ready For Hurricane Isaac

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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 8:52 pm

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And I'm Audie Cornish. In New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered this news this afternoon.

MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU: Isaac has now formed into a hurricane so we are officially in the fight and the city of New Orleans is on the front lines.

6:23 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

Online University For All Balances Big Goals, Expensive Realities

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Students work at the University of the People student computer center in Haiti. Students from 129 countries are currently enrolled with the institution.

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Naylea Omayra Villanueva Sanchez says her location near the Amazon rain forest in Peru, combined with a disability, makes a traditional university education impossible.

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Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 6:54 pm

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Naylea Omayra Villanueva Sanchez, 22, lives on the edge of the Amazon rain forest in Tarapoto, northern Peru.

"Where I live, there's only jungle," Villanueva Sanchez says through an interpreter. "A university education is inaccessible."

And that's true in more ways than one. Villanueva Sanchez is in a wheelchair, the result of a motorcycle accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

6:23 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

Judge Halts Ohio Law That Could Discount Votes

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A judge has given Ohio unions a preliminary injunction stopping a new state law that could endanger provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, even if the cause is poll worker error.

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5:30 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

Court Paves Way For Texas Planned Parenthood Cuts

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Abortion-rights opponents outside a Planned Parenthood of North Texas event in Fort Worth in February. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Texas can defund Planned Parenthood clinics because the organization provides abortions.

By Wade Goodwyn

Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 6:23 pm

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Officials in Texas say they will cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood following a federal court ruling last week. The decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the state can defund the health clinics because Planned Parenthood is associated with abortion.

5:07 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

Ben Powell: In The Footsteps Of Jazz Fiddle Royalty

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Classically trained violinist Ben Powell makes the leap to jazz in his album New Street, a tribute to the late Stephane Grappelli.

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Originally published on Fri August 31, 2012 1:37 pm

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The late Stephane Grappelli is perhaps the best-known jazz violinist in history. His collaborations with guitarist Django Reinhardt have influenced countless musicians. A comparison to Grappelli is one of the highest honors a young, rising violinist can receive.

4:36 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

'2016: Obama's America' Shows Up Strong When Most Box Office Is Weak

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A promotional poster is seen at the Rave Fairfax Corner movie theater in Fairfax, Virginia, announcing the new movie "2016: Obama's America" that opened in theaters across the US, August 24, 2012.

By Neda Ulaby

Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 3:53 pm

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The movie 2016: Obama's America just did something that's hard for any political documentary to accomplish: it took seventh place on the list of this weekend's highest grossing movies. Usually, when any documentary pulls in more than five million dollars, it's about, say, Katy Perry. But 2016 looks at the ideologies and global movements that it says helped intellectually mold the President of the United States from a critical, conservative perspective. And the ending imagines an America economically undone by four more years of an Obama presidency.

3:42 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down

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Thomas Peterffy, shown here in 2010

By David Kestenbaum

Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 3:54 pm

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First, three stories from Thomas Peterffy's life as a trader:

Story #1:

When Peterffy was a kid growing up in communist Hungary in the 1950s his buddy went to Austria and brought back a pack of Juicy Fruit gum. Peterffy bought the pack, broke the sticks of gum up into little pieces, and sold them at a profit. The principal at his school was not amused. "Where's your communist conscience?" the principal asked.

Not surprisingly, given story #1, Peterffy moved to the U.S. as a young man.

Story #2:

2:50 pm

Mon August 27, 2012

Afghan Women Fear Backsliding On Key Gains

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Soraya Paksat of Voice of Afghan Women holds a knife that was confiscated from a woman who came to visit a young relative in one of the group's shelters. The woman intended to kill the girl for fleeing an abusive father.

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A woman crosses the street in Herat, Afghanistan. Burqa-clad women stand out on the streets in Afghanistan â both because of their bright blue burqas, and because there are far fewer women in public than men.

By Sean Carberry

Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 6:23 pm

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The gains by Afghan women are seen as one of the country's most important achievements over the past decade. But as the international community draws down its military and aid presence, those hard-won gains are at risk of being lost, according to activists.

Women are still being beaten, raped and forced into early marriage at alarming rates. And women's advocacy groups say they are already seeing signs of backsliding by the government when it comes to protecting women, and fear this could accelerate in the coming years.

A 16-Year-Old's Struggle

5:08 pm

Sun August 26, 2012

Obama's Warfare: 'From Power To A Policy'

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A boy watches a group of Afghan and U.S. commandos in their up armored Humvee in Shindand Afghanistan. The special forces have become more prominent in the U.S. war effort.

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Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 5:30 pm

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It's hard to know if 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a target or collateral damage.

Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, was killed last fall at a barbeque with friends. His father, Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida supporter and also American-born, was killed in a drone strike two weeks earlier in Yemen.

The two of them, plus one more man, now make three Americans — three of thousands — who are believed to have been killed by America's top secret drone warfare program.

5:04 pm

Sun August 26, 2012

Tropical Storm Isaac Looms Over GOP Convention

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In Tampa, Fla., Republicans are closely watching the weather. Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to pass by Tampa Monday, bringing heavy rain and wind. Monday also marks the day the GOP convention was to supposed to start, but organizers decided it was safer to cancel the first day of events. Guest host Laura Sullivan speaks with NPR's Jeff Brady about the preparations.

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4:12 pm

Sun August 26, 2012

Advantage Tennis: Improving Game's Racial Disparity

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Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams compete in Wimbledon at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Donald Young is the only African-American man in the top 100 tennis players in the U.S.

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Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 5:04 pm

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Venus and Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens and Donald Young will be among those vying for Grand Slam Glory at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, which start Monday at Flushing Meadows in New York.

Those four are the only African-Americans who rank among the top 100 men's and women's players in the country at this stage. Some tennis enthusiasts say the game has got to do better than that – and they are working at the grassroots to level the playing ground.

2:44 pm

Sun August 26, 2012

'A Contest Of Wits': A Former Forger Recalls His Art

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After John F. Herring by Ken Perenyi, circa 1989.

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Ken Perenyi made millions of dollars from paintings he forged.

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Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 10:11 am

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Next time you're admiring a 19th century American master painting at a museum or auction house, take a closer look. What looks like an authentic creation complete with cracks and yellowing varnish could actually be the work of forger Ken Perenyi.

Perenyi made millions of dollars over 30 years with more than 1,000 forgeries, allowing him to jet set around the world. His highest earning work was a Martin Johnson Heade forgery that sold for more than $700,000.

2:37 pm

Sun August 26, 2012

The Movie Regina King Has 'Seen A Million Times'

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Patrick Renna as Hamilton 'Ham' Porter in 1993 sports film, The Sandlot.

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Actress Regina King

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Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 5:04 pm

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The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

For actress Regina King, whose credits include Jerry Maguire and Ray, and who currently stars on the TNT TV show Southland, the movie she could watch a million times is The Sandlot.

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