LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Now to a story about a big data approach to medicine with a big price tag - hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. It's called the All of Us Precision Medicine Initiative. It's an effort to gather blood samples, medical inform

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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: For New Year's Eve, the musical tradition has long been this old chestnut... (SOUNDBITE OF GUY LOMBARDO AND HIS ROYAL CANADIANS' PERFORMANCE OF AULD LANG SYNE) FRAYER: If Guy Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne is decidedly, w

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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: It's 1992. Your hair is gelled up, you're sporting high-tops, maybe still listening to Run-DMC on cassette, and that's the setting for a new coming-of-age novel that's also a look at race in America. The book, titled Green, follo

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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: When you hear the Spanish word quinceanera, you might think of poufy, pink dresses, big, boisterous family parties and a traditional rite of passage for 15-year-old Latina girls. A new HBO documentary series takes us inside the m

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 1997, a bizarre story hit the national news. Thirty-nine people in California had killed themselves by drinking poison. They were dressed identically with identical haircuts, and they were all members of the cult Heaven's Gate.

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: This month, California became the world's largest jurisdiction with broad legal access to marijuana. Adults in this state can now buy marijuana without a doctor's prescription. But as Sarah Varney reports, obstetricians here are w

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Vicente Fox made history in Mexico when he became the first president to break 71 years of one-party rule. These days, the former leader is taking aim at the U.S. president on Twitter and on air. And now Vicente Fox has als

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And time now for the Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) GARCIA-NAVARRO: This week, we're talking about gentrification. Middle-class people move in. Property values and rents rise. Things change and improve but not f

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The Future Of Benefits: A New York Program Might Provide A Model STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Americans with health or pension benefits commonly get them through their employers. So what to do now that so many people have no steady employer? We have reported

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For most children, staying healthy means staying on schedule for immunizations. That's also true in adulthood, but many people just don't get them. Turns out, this is not such a hard problem to address. Here's NPR's Patti Neighmo

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All this year, we are looking at the events of 1968 that continue to shape our world today. It was 50 years ago this week when thousands of North Vietnamese troops and their Viet Cong allies launched an audacious attack sweeping i

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Nearly 60 million emergency meals and more than 30 million gallons of water - that is what FEMA has delivered to people in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria hit in September. But now the agency is about to shut down the direct de

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