Crisis-Prone Texas Juvenile Facilities Look to Reform October 31, 2007 • The Texas Youth Commission is in what one national researcher has called "the most spectacular collapse of a juvenile corrections system in this country's history." Texas is looking to Missouri to try to reform its youth detention facilities. Crisis-Prone Texas Juvenile Facilities Look to Reform Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15822844/15817012" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Solutions Toyota's Car of the Future Had Distinctive Beginning October 31, 2007 • More than a decade ago, Toyota engineers designed the Prius, a vehicle that revolutionized the auto industry. A visit to the Toyota City factory in Japan sheds light on the car's distinctive beginnings. Toyota's Car of the Future Had Distinctive Beginning Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15789672/15807196" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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New Orleans District Attorney Resigns October 31, 2007 • Eddie Jordan, New Orleans District Attorney, cited a $3.7 million lawsuit against his office as the reason for his resignation. Reporter Gwen Filosa of the Times-Picayune details the story. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817262/15814243" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Alaska's Lone Elephant Will Move to Warmer Home October 31, 2007 • A long struggle over finding a warmer climate for Alaska's only elephant will be resolved Thursday when Maggie journeys south to her new home: the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif. The 25-year-old African elephant will be loaded into a C-17 cargo plane for the one-way trip out of Alaska. Jim Bogert, a Department of Defense civilian employee who is overseeing Maggie's transport, talks with Melissa Block. Alaska's Lone Elephant Will Move to Warmer Home Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817068/15820496" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Aviation Near-Mishaps More Common Than Thought October 31, 2007 • Aircraft near collisions, runway interference, and other aviation safety problems occur more frequently than previously recognized. NASA, which compiles such information, had been withholding the data for fear of upsetting air travelers or hurting airline profits. Aviation Near-Mishaps More Common Than Thought Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817049/15817009" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Security Firm Blackwater Under Scrutiny FBI Continues Blackwater Shooting Investigation October 31, 2007 • The FBI is investigating the weeks-old shooting incident in Iraq involving Blackwater contractors. Investigators have just returned from Iraq, where they interviewed witnesses who were at the Baghdad square when the shooting occurred. The agency has also transported to its crime lab in Virginia a number of shot-out Iraqi cars involved in the incident. FBI Continues Blackwater Shooting Investigation Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817052/15817010" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
FBI Continues Blackwater Shooting Investigation Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817052/15817010" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Opinion Technology Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early October 31, 2007 • Clocks on computers, VCRs and other reputedly "smart" devices left a lot of people confused when they automatically switched from Daylight Savings to standard time before they were supposed to. That's because Congress moved the changeover by a week. Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817040/15817006" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817040/15817006" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
News Pelosi: Lack of Progress in Iraq Eclipses Dems' Work October 31, 2007 • In an interview with Robert Siegel, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi touts Democratic accomplishments in Congress in the past 10 months, but acknowledges that the lack of action on changing the course in Iraq has eclipsed everything they have achieved this year. She also discusses the ongoing negotiations with the White House on SCHIP. Pelosi: Lack of Progress in Iraq Eclipses Dems' Work Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817046/15817008" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Pelosi: Lack of Progress in Iraq Eclipses Dems' Work Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817046/15817008" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
The Mukasey Nomination Mukasey's Torture Comments Give Panel Pause October 31, 2007 • Prospects for Senate confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general seem to be suffering because he's not giving Democrats the answer they want on waterboarding. That's the interrogation technique that makes the subject feel like he's about to drown. Mukasey's Torture Comments Give Panel Pause Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817018/15817000" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Southern Governors Convene to Solve Water Fight October 31, 2007 • Severe drought is gripping Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and the states' governors, who meet Thursday in Washington, have been engaged in a rhetorical battle over how much water the Army Corps of Engineers should be releasing downstream from reservoirs in northern Georgia. Southern Governors Convene to Solve Water Fight Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817037/15817004" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Law Stayed Executions Revive Lethal Injection Debate October 31, 2007 • The Supreme Court plan to consider in a case later this term whether a drug combination that's used in many state lethal-injection executions causes the prisoner so much pain that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned by the Constitution. Hear Nina Totenberg on All Things Considered Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817015/15815224" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Halloween Tricks And Audio Treats Philadelphia, Baltimore Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe October 31, 2007 • Philadelphia and Baltimore are locked in a dispute over which city has the better claim to Edgar Allan Poe. The writer, novelist, editor and critic is buried in Baltimore, where he died 158 years ago, but he produced much of his best work while living in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Baltimore Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817021/15817001" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Research News Smithsonian Unravels Color Photography Mystery October 31, 2007 • The Smithsonian is tackling one of the biggest mysteries in the history of photography — whether color photography was first invented by an American minister from Westkill, N.Y. His contemporaries called his work a fraud, but a new analysis suggests that the story is not that simple. Smithsonian Unravels Color Photography Mystery Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15817064/15817014" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Oil Turmoil: Pricey Fuel's Impact $100-a-Barrel Oil? Perhaps, But Don't Panic October 31, 2007 • Higher oil prices mean you'll pay more for gasoline, heating oil, airline tickets, food and other goods. But many experts say the U.S. economy is better positioned to weather an oil shock today than it was in the 1970s and '80s.
Texas Prosecutors Wait for Lethal Injection Ruling October 31, 2007 • A day after the Supreme Court halted a Mississippi execution, two prosecutors in the state with the busiest death chamber say they will not ask judges to set execution dates until the justices decide on lethal injection procedures. Hear Nina Totenberg on All Things Considered Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15810215/15815224" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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