NASA's Return to Space Wayne Hale's Insider's Guide to NASA June 30, 2006 • The general public might recognize Wayne Hale as that NASA manager on TV who talks about ice-frost ramps and the aerodynamics of foam. But for thousands of NASA workers and their friends, Hale is known for his thoughtful and lyrical emails reflecting on life at the space agency. Wayne Hale's Insider's Guide to NASA Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5522536/5522559" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Opinion Raising Dogs, and Fighting Dogs, in Georgia June 30, 2006 • Commentator Lauretta Hannon tells a story from when she was living in Savannah's East Side neighborhood about her neighbors who kept dogs for dog-fighting.
Bush, Koizumi Pay Homage to the King June 30, 2006 • President Bush accompanies Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi on a tour of Elvis Presley's home at Graceland, in Memphis, Tenn. Koizumi, a long-time fan of Elvis, is headed back to Japan as his official visit ends. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Memphis. Bush, Koizumi Pay Homage to the King Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525326/5525327" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Analysis All Things Considered Despite Unease, Democrats May Lose Out June 30, 2006 • Twelve years ago, a tidal wave of dissatisfaction with Congress brought Republicans to control of both the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. This year, unhappiness with Capitol Hill is prompting comparisons to 1994, but the minority Democrats may find it hard to take advantage. Despite Unease, Democrats May Lose Out Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525323/5525324" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Long-Gone Glove Returns to Brothers June 30, 2006 • Forty-two years after 57-year-old Patrick Reynolds of Los Angeles lost his boyhood baseball glove, he has it back. And it still has his name on it. His brother, Jeff Reynolds found it at a swap meet last week and paid $5 for it. Melissa Block talks with the Reynolds brothers by phone. Long-Gone Glove Returns to Brothers Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525314/5525315" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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The Impact of War Demonstrators Support Charged Marines June 30, 2006 • The preliminary hearing for eight servicemen charged with killing an unarmed Iraqi in Hamdania has been postponed for several weeks. Meanwhile, many U.S. civilians are voicing support for the Marines and Navy Corpsman. Some are holding weekly demonstrations outside Camp Pendleton. For historian Michal Belknap, this has echoes of the My Lai episode, when both supporters and opponents of the Vietnam War rallied behind William Calley, for very different reasons. Demonstrators Support Charged Marines Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525311/5525312" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Press Navigates a Sensitive Role June 30, 2006 • USA Today publishes a follow-up story to its May report of a secret government program for the creation of a massive data base of American's phone records with the cooperation of several telecommunications companies. In the story printed today, the paper stated that further reporting has left them unable to confirm that Bell South and Verizon cooperated with the government, as the paper reported in May. The admission comes in a week during which the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have been hammering The New York Times for publishing a story about another secret government program for surveillance of banking records. The attacks on the Times have questioned the role of the press in a time of war -- and some have suggested the prosecution of journalists under espionage laws. Press Navigates a Sensitive Role Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525320/5525321" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Politics Congress Will Consider Legalizing Tribunals June 30, 2006 • Senate Republicans say they are willing to work with the White House to give President Bush the authority to hold military tribunals for detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court blocked the Bush administration's plans for the tribunals. Congress Will Consider Legalizing Tribunals Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525302/5525303" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Army Investigates Allegations of Rape, Murder June 30, 2006 • The Army is investigating allegations that U.S. soldiers raped a woman, then killed her and three other people in March in the Iraqi town of Mahmoudiyah, south of Baghdad. The suspects are a soldier from the 101st Airborne Division and another who was recently discharged. Army Investigates Allegations of Rape, Murder Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525308/5525309" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Art & Design Art Conservators at Work: A Living Exhibit June 30, 2006 • The Smithsonian American Art Museum reopens Saturday after a 6-year renovation. One new feature is an conservation lab with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Conservators accustomed to careful, detailed and solitary work on fragile art will now have an audience. Art Conservators at Work: A Living Exhibit Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5525121/5525289" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Checking in with Art Buchwald June 30, 2006 • Renowned writer and humorist Art Buchwald is now best known for being not quite dead. In January, he decided to refuse dialysis for kidney failure and await death in a Washington hospice. Months later, he's still around and off to Martha's Vineyard. Checking in with Art Buchwald Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524921/5525018" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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StoryCorps A Dream to Teach, Born in the Philippines June 30, 2006 • Lourdes Cereno Markley was born in the Philippines. As a young woman in the 1960s, she was determined to attend college in the United States. She recently talked with her daughter, Julia, about the bold move that made it happen. A Dream to Teach, Born in the Philippines Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5521437/5521444" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Business Grand Canyon Crash of '56 Led to FAA June 30, 2006 • Fifty years ago Friday, a midair collision over the Grand Canyon killed 128 people on two commercial planes. As Daniel Kraker of member station KNAU reports, the unprecedented air disaster prompted the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration and the modern air traffic control system. Grand Canyon Crash of '56 Led to FAA Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524528/5524529" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Oil at Bottom of New Mexico Land Buy June 30, 2006 • Shares in New Mexico's Atrisco Land Trust have been held by thousands of families since the 1600s. A development company is trying to buy shares from 6,000 living heirs. But many didn't know the land might sit atop an untapped oil deposit. Oil at Bottom of New Mexico Land Buy Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524525/5524526" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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NASA's Return to Space NASA Seeks to Curb Bird Threat to Shuttle June 30, 2006 • NASA is hard at work trapping vultures near Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Space agency officials want to keep the four-to-six pound birds away from Saturday's shuttle launch. NASA Seeks to Curb Bird Threat to Shuttle Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524531/5524532" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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