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This is All Things Considered from NPR news. I am Elizabeth Broad .And I am Rabbit Seagol. Hospitals across the country have instituted computer programs in an effort to reduce mistakes in prescribing medication. Many large employers say they'll cont
Time now for business news. There was plenty of bad news on the economic front yesterday. Stock prices slid while the cost of a barrel of oil rose by more than two dollars and forty cents. One reason for the moves was a steep drop in the value of the
China has announced it will substantially increase its military budget this year, another in a series of annual increases that will boost China's defense spending to nearly thirty billion dollars. Today's announcement comes on the eve of that country
Studies that will be released today show that fish, birds and mammals in New England have significant amounts of mercury in their bodies. The studies find the toxic metal in some unexpected habitats and they suggest that power plants in the Midwest a
As the Pentagon was briefing reporters yesterday, Pat Tillman's family was getting its own briefing at a hotel in San Jose, California. Well, My name is Mary Tillman, and I'm Pat Tillman's mother. Mary Tillman was one of those facing a number of Def
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Time now for StoryCorps. This oral history project is recording and preserving the stories of everyday Americans. Today we hear from Robert Crum. He's 83 years old and preached for years as a Methodist minister. He served congregations all over the
Welcome to This I Believe, an NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. Support for NPR Podcasts comes from Visa, offering the Visa signature card featuring concierge services for travel, din
Time again for StoryCorps. This oral history project collects stories from everyday people. Harry Herz sold tabaco pipes as a traveling salesman in the 1950s. For a week each month he would come home to his family in Newport Rhode Island. Here his d
It was woman against machine at an arm-wrestling competition yesterday in San Diego. And as soon as we say, go, go ahead. In one corner, 17-year-old Panna Felsen, a high school studentand amateur robot builder, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 120 pounds, an
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
Antony of the band Antony and the Johnsons cut his teeth in New York's after hours cabarets and backing up rocker Lou Reed.His current group has a new album called I Am a Bird Now.Music critic Jerry Dannemiller has a review. OK,right up front.The fir
The US economy continues to recover from the tech bubble burst of 2000. But there're certainly many people still left behind. Long-term unemployment which is defined as being out of work for 27 weeks is at record levels. And within that group,the per
On Mondays, our business report focuses on technology. Google has transformed itself from the little search engine that could into a major information hub, email service, software developer and more. It's already the place where most people go to fin
This is Day to Day, I am Madeline Brand. There is an old thought from jounalist AJ. Liebling that freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one, well if that's true, then tens of millions of men and women in this country now own the modern equ
Celebrities looking for income beyond record contracts, movie deals and commercial endorsements, often start their own fashion lines. Rock musicians, actors and sports stars have all thrown their hats into the ring. But commentator Rosecrans Baldwin
Not all musicians hit bottom, of course, but they do have to drive and drive and drive to get where they are going. Commentator Christian Bauman remembers a poignant journey of a few years back. I came home from the army to a bachelor apartment in ea
Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell said goodbye on Friday. Several high-profile government officials have resigned recently. And Weekend Edition essayist Al Lubrano senses a certain similarity in their exits. Government big sho
Renee Montagne: All this week we have been talking about your privacy, today we will meet a man who keeps very little private, in fact, puts his life online with a sound track. This music greets web surfers at a blog for Jonathon Coulson. There he w
Renee Montagne: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have back surgery every year at a much higher rate than any other country. Whether there are too many back surgeries is a hotly debated subject in orthopedist , NPR's Joanne Silberner examines the q