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  • Host: Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
  • For two hours every weekday, hosts Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features.
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  • Genres: News
  • Location: Washington, DC
  • Language: English
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Michael Jordan Impersonator Booed At Game

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
More than 7,000 people turned up Monday to watch the NBA Development League's Utah Flash host the Dakota Wizards, most of them probably for the half-time show in which Michael Jordan would play one-on-one with former Utah Jazz star Bryon Russell. Trouble is, Jordan wasn't there.

Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain 'Highways'

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Intensive reading instruction not only helps students boost reading skills, but also improves the brain's highways that communicate information, a new study finds. This suggests that reading depends on areas of the brain that process information as well as the wiring that connects those areas.

Afghanistan Unveiled In Three Eye-Opening Accounts

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Afghanistan is not an easy country to fully grasp. Author Nadeem Aslam recommends three books that help make the United States' involvement there both before and after Sept. 11 a little easier to understand.

In Wake Of Blasts, Assessing Iraq Security

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
A series of coordinated attacks hit the Iraqi capital Tuesday, killing more than 100 people and wounding hundreds others. Retired Lt. Col. Doug Ollivant, who was in Baghdad last August during the previous coordinated bombing attacks, offers his insight.

U.S. Attempts To Restart North Korean Nuclear Talks

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
For the first time in more than a year, a senior U.S. diplomat is in North Korea. Special envoy Stephen Bosworth is trying to revive stalled nuclear talks with the isolated regime in Pyongyang. But there is no firm indication that Pyongyang is ready to return to six-party talks.

Dairy Groups Fight To Keep Chocolate Milk On Menu

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Chocolate milk has been kicked off the lunch menu at schools across the country. The dairy industry says that even though it contains more sugar than white milk, it's more nutritious than soda or other drink options. But healthful-lunch activists aren't so sure.

Lawmakers Question TSA On Security Breach

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Senators are questioning the Transportation Security Administration to find out how it accidentally posted sensitive information online from its airport screening guidelines. The TSA has placed some of its employees on administrative leave following the security lapse.

McChrystal: Strategic Partnership With Afghanistan

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
This week the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, is in Washington defending President Obama's plan for increasing the U.S. troop presence in that country. The general sat down to talk with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep.

Examining Proposal To Expand Medicare

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Senate Democrats are proposing an expansion of Medicare in their health care overhaul under which some people between the ages of 55 and 64 can buy into the federal program. Marilyn Moon, an economist and Medicare expert at the American Institutes for Research, discusses the details and what they mean for consumers.

Senate Democrats Near Deal On Health Care

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Senate Democrats may have reached a compromise that could pave the way for passage of a sweeping health care overhaul before Christmas. The package reportedly redefines the public option to allow nonprofit insurers to sell policies regulated by the government, and may include allowing baby boomers to buy into Medicare early.

San Francisco Pounds Crowded With Chihuahuas

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Animal shelters are scrambling to find homes for the pint-sized pups. A San Francisco Animal Care and Control official blames the economy and the pocket-pet phenomenon.

Escobar's Son Seeks Atonement For Father's Sins

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Pablo Escobar was once the world's most wanted man, directing an empire of drugs and murder as leader of Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. Sixteen years after his death, his victims' families haven't forgotten about him. Nor has Escobar's only son, whose story is told in a new documentary.

Sen. Hatch Writes 'Extremely Catchy' Hanukkah Song

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
The senior senator from Utah wrote Eight Days Of Hanukkah in time for the Jewish holiday that starts Friday night. He did it in collaboration with Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg who says he's pleased as punch Hatch wrote it a decade after Goldberg suggested it.

U.S. Diplomacy Makes A Call To Tech Support

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
The State Department's new adviser on innovation is looking to apply tech-world solutions to global problems. Some of the initiatives: Encouraging Mexicans to use text messaging to report drug violence and finding better ways to protect cellular phone networks in Afghanistan.

In Oslo Speech, Obama Must Sidestep Land Mines

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
The stakes are considered low for President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday. But it's still a tricky proposition for a president who just committed some 30,000 U.S. troops to battle. He'll be feted abroad, even as Americans are squeezed economically at home.

Poor Disproportionately Hit By Economic Crisis

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
In times of economic distress, bankers get bailouts and the middle class gets a stimulus. And the poor? In this recession, the social safety net that was to be the ultimate protection of the unfortunate lies in tatters.

Britain Imposes Massive Tax On Bonuses

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
The British government imposed a 50 percent tax on large year-end bonuses being paid to bankers. The ruling Labour Party is doing badly in the polls, and many observers see the tax as a populist move intended to attract votes.

Geithner Extends Bailout Until Next Fall

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is extending the controversial $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program through October of next year. In a letter to congressional leaders, Geithner said TARP is still needed to provide capital to small businesses and banks and to provide foreclosure relief to struggling homeowners.

Tea Party Activists Harness Anger To Push Message

Wed, Dec 9 Listen
Ten months after the Tea Party movement formed, organizers are trying to figure out how best to capture the angry energy that has fueled their protests. In Dallas, the local party is trying to locate like-minded, fiscally conservative people, educate them about future candidates and make sure they get to the polls.

The xx: Switching Roles In Song

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft are young Londoners who lead an extremely spare band called The xx. They touch on Kraftwerk and The Cure, but never equal their volume. For the coolest kids on the scene, The xx's members sound reassuringly vulnerable.

Debit Cards Aren't Just For Gifts This Holiday

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
More people than ever will buy their holiday presents this season with debit cards. But people are using debit and credit cards for much more than just gift purchases. Even Salvation Army bell ringers are accepting plastic this year.

Hondurans Seek Resolution Of Political Unrest

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Honduras are hoping that the recently held presidential elections will put the nation's political crisis in the past. Like many Hondurans, one man in the northern coastal town of Tela says he just wants the situation settled.

Author Urges Broad Anti-Opium Afghan Strategy

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Gretchen Peters, author of Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda,, argues that going after the poppy problem in Afghanistan has to be a fundamental part of the war effort. And that for a strategy to succeed, she says, it has to be broad in scope.

McChrystal Expresses Confidence In Afghan Plan

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress Tuesday that he's confident he now has both the strategy and resources he needs in Afghanistan. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, initially wary of a troop increase coming before a crackdown on corruption, said he's satisfied that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed the right intentions.

Big Waves Delight Surfers In Hawaii

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
On the North Shore of Oahu, massive waves are pounding the coastline and delighting surfers. A huge storm in the Pacific is creating epic conditions for the annual big wave surfing championship.

How Consumers Can Affect Climate Change

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Changes in the way Americans drive, the appliances we use, and how much we recycle can lead to a significant reduction in carbon emissions, says the co-author of an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Michael Vanderberg says change can be significant even if not everyone takes part.

U.S. Envoy To Iraq: Blasts A Setback

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Coordinated attacks in Baghdad Tuesday killed at least 125 people and wounded hundreds the worst violence in Iraq's capital in more than a month. But Ambassador Christopher Hill says that despite this outburst of violence, overall security is improving.

Coordinated Blasts Kill More Than 125 In Baghdad

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
The bombings came as officials agreed to set March 7 as the date for national elections. U.S. and Iraqi officials have expressed concerns that an increase in violence would mar the country's elections and delay a planned U.S. troop withdrawal set for 2010.

Senate Democrats Near Compromise On Health Care

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
After tough negotiations, Senate Democrats are nearing a deal on a plan for offering health insurance through the government. It may not be the so-called public option discussed for months, but it could be the thing that finally gets a health care bill through the Senate.

Amid Scandal, Tiger Woods Merchandise Loses Luster

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
In his article Tiger for Sale, on the Daily Beast, Duff McDonald explores the impact the Woods scandal is having on the golf champion's memorabilia market and on his merchandise in toy stores. McDonald says Woods action figures at some retailers were selling at 33 percent less than their regular price.

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