Welcome to This I believe, an NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. I believe in honor, faith and service I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I believe in freedom of s

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It is Monday morning which means it is time for another installment of This I Believe. And today our essay comes from an NPR listener in Herndon Virginia. 26-year-old Angelina Michetti is a contracting officer for the federal government, but her beli

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From NPR news, this is All Things Considered, I'm Robert Siegel. I'm Melissa Block and I'm gonna try to keep this next intro short so we can hit the post, fit in the web back, and avoid busting the segment. And you may not be able to decipher that ra

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News, news, the heck with news, let's go outdoors, Alaska, which really is the great outdoors, but getting cold these days, the birds migrating to the lower 48, and that's why producer Martyn Stewart went in June, he was going to record birds. He set

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And let's catch up on some other business news this morning, a couple of bitter business rivals have tried to become a little more compatible. Microsoft has reached an agreement that will allow its Windows Operating system, with which so many of us a

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I believe in honor, faith and service. I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in empathy. I believe in truth. I believe in the ingredients of love. This I believe. Each Monday we bring your

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If you are feeling stressed out, you're not alone. This country is full of people who feel overwhelmed by too much to do and too little time to do it. Commentator Andrew Lam counts himself among the stressed of America and recently he found out that

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Here is a signal that China may be assuming a larger role in global politics. The World Health Organization is set to name Doctor Margaret Chan as Director General, and she is the nominee of China. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports. Doctor Margaret Chan is

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Back now with Day to Day I'm Madeleine Brand The software company Sun Microsystems announced a new strategy today. After ten years of fiercely guarding its Java technology, Sun now plans to give it away. Marketplace's Amy Scott joins me now. First of

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Welcome to This I Believe, an NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. I believe in honor, faith and service. I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I believe in freedom of

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Im Allison Aubrey. When it comes to the brain and nutrition, theres lots of evidence to suggest that eating breakfast really can help kids succeed in the classroom. The reason is pretty straightforward. After a fasting all night, developing brains ne

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Steve Inskeep: Each Friday morning, we bring you another installment of StoryCorps, the oral history project that travels the country, collecting the stories of everyday people. They interview each other. Excerpts are archived at the Library of Cong

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This is Valentines Day and this morning, we have a few words about love and money. According to research from a major credit card company, the average man spends about $130 on his sweetheart. Women, spend about half that. For people who want to spend

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This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Even in this era of Madden Football and Grand Theft Auto of Gameboys and PlayStations , you can still read an account of Hezbollah's raid across the Israeli border as Nasrallah's gambit

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And it's time for another of your stories, courtesy of StoryCorps. StoryCorps is the oral history project that collects interviews from all over America. My name is Sandi Cote Whitaker. My age is 59. My name is Bobbi Cote Whitaker, I'm 58 years old.

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Time now for Storycorps, the project that's collecting an oral history of America, stories about you, your friends, your family can be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Excerpts are played here on morning edition.

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Time now for business news. The World Cup begins tomorrow in Germany. Team rivalries in soccer or football, as it's known in the rest of the world, are intense. Equally intense is the soccer competition between the world's two biggest producers of sp

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Running a series called African American Lives. Its hosted by historian Henry Lewis Gates, and profiles prominent African Americans who trace their lineage back to Africa using DNA analysis. Commentator John McWhorter says he doesn't need a DNA mout

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Diesel fuel in the US and the fumes from diesel engines are about to get a whole lot cleaner. As of today, the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring much of the diesel in the country to have 97% less sulfur in it. It's the start of a project

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Here is another audio portrait of the American life from StoryCors. This oral history project is traveling the country collecting stories of work, family and generations past and present. John L. Black Sr. worked for nearly 30 years in the boiler roo

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