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Deceptive Cadence
1:04 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Around The Classical Internet: May 25, 2012

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Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb in Tokyo in May 2011.
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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:33 pm

  • Hey, did you hear about what went down between the Metropolitan Opera and Opera News this week?

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The Record
1:03 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Afghan Whigs: Songs Of Love Gone Wrong, Done Right

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Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night.
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Science
1:00 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Tick Talk: Lyme Disease Under The Microscope

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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:17 pm

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JOHN DANKOSKY, HOST:

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky, in for Ira Flatow. You've probably already encountered them this year, buried deep in your pet's fur, maybe on your own skin - yes, ticks. These bloodsuckers are often no bigger than a poppy seed, but they can wreak havoc with your health and your pet's.

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Shots - Health Blog
12:58 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector

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The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.

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Science
12:53 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Breaking Out Of A Web Of Fear

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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:16 pm

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JOHN DANKOSKY, HOST:

So if tiny ticks carrying Lyme disease weren't scary enough for you, how about something even creepier and crawlier? What happens when you see a spider in the sink? Do you panic? Do you shriek? Do you call in someone else to squash it?

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It's All Politics
12:42 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Inhale To The Chief: More Details Of Obama's Pot-Smoking Youth Revealed

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A Punahou School yearbook class photo from 1976 that includes the 9th grader who would grow up to become President Obama, but not before he smoked a lot of pot first.
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Originally published on Tue May 29, 2012 3:37 pm

The first sneak peak a few weeks back inside journalist David Maraniss' highly anticipated biography of President Obama served up glimpses of the president as a young man in romantic relationships, with information gleaned from early girlfriends.

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Humans
12:38 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Humans, The World's 'Superomnivores'

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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:16 pm

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JOHN DANKOSKY, HOST:

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky. Are you a fan of crunchy, crispy foods? Well, I am. In fact...

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEWING)

DANKOSKY: Do you hear that? Yeah, that's a potato chip. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Now, no matter where you are in the world, you'll probably find that that crunch is popular with the locals. Think about it: tortilla chips, crispy chicken, fried calamari, biscotti, tempura, falafel, pekora - mmm, pekora.

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The Two-Way
12:38 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

'Football To Fight Against War': South Sudan Joins FIFA

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After decades of war, football signals hope. In this photo, South Sudanese soldiers travel by truck near the frontline with Sudan on April 24.
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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 12:43 pm

For South Sudan, 2011 was monumental. After decades of war, South Sudan became its own nation.

But as NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has told us, that process of emerging from a conflict with its northern neighbor that left it poor and isolated, has been fraught with more fighting.

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The Picture Show
12:37 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

A Civil War In The Olive Garden Parking Lot

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In his series The State of the Union, Gregg Segal creates a contrast between an idealized Civil War era, as embodied by re-enactors, and contemporary life.
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Robert Lee Hodge on picket near the Old Telegraph Road and Confederate camps outside Fredericksburg, Va.
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Jeffro Moye, Kirkwood Hall and Hodge near Massaponax Church on the Old Telegraph Road, in Spotsylvania County, Va. This area, a major crossroads of the Civil War, saw more than 100,000 casualties during the war.
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Federal Zouave Prillaman brushes his teeth where there was once a winter encampment of the Army of the Potomac, in Stafford County, Va. Several Union Zouave regiments, which wore colorful, French North African-influenced uniforms, camped here.
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Prillaman on the Cedar Creek battlefield in Strasburg, Va. The fight at Cedar Creek on Oct. 19, 1864, was influential in getting Abraham Lincoln re-elected.
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Jerry Hornbaker in Helen Chapman's backyard on the Gettysburg battlefield.
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Pope on the Nashville battlefield. The interstate is right on top of what was the Southerners' first battle line.
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Confederate re-enactors at Spring Hill, Tenn.
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Hodge hitches a ride in Winchester, Va. Winchester changed hands 72 times during the Civil War — 13 times in just one day. Three major battles were fought in the town.
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Hodge, Jerry Hornbaker and Tim Cole advance through the Gettysburg Cemetery. During the Battle of Gettysburg, this area, called Cemetery Hill, was crowded with thousands of Union troops, artillery pieces, wagons, mules, horses, teamsters, mounted officers, and orderlies trying to shift troops from a weakening Union line.
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Ben Hawley, 54th Massachusetts, at Pickett's Buffet, Gettysburg, Pa. The 54th Massachusetts infantry, a unit of black Union soldiers, was portrayed in the film Glory. The mural behind Hawley depicts the collapse of the Confederacy.
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Juston Pope and Patrick Landrum on the site of the Cotton Gin Park at Franklin, Tenn. Until recently, roughly 1 percent of the Franklin battlefield was protected
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Confederate re-enactors at Germanna Heights apartments. On May 4, 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched his 120,000-man federal invasion here, in central Virginia.
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Brent Feito and Lars Prillaman walk through a place where Union campsites were established during the winter of 1862-63, in Stafford County, Va.
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Prillaman and Feito outside a Honda dealership on what was a Federal campsite near Fredericksburg, Va.
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Confederate horseman Todd Kern on the (Second) Kernstown battlefield, Va.
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Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 1:59 pm

Think about where you are, this very moment — and imagine all that has happened there before now.

When I was in college in Tennessee, for example, my neighborhood was nicknamed "The Fort," because that's exactly what it was during the Civil War. How weird to think that where soldiers once fired cannons, students today are doing keg stands. And actually, I wouldn't have been shocked to see Civil War soldiers milling around the neighborhood; re-enactments were — and are — huge in the area.

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The Two-Way
12:35 pm
Fri May 25, 2012

Cleared Of Rape Conviction, California Man Remains 'Unbroken'

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A tear of relief: Brian Banks after his rape conviction was dismissed Thursday.
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Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 4:24 pm

  • Brian Banks on Southern California Public Radio

Five years in prison. Then five years of probation and wearing an electronic monitoring device. The shame of being a registered sex offender. Not being able to get a job. His dream of playing in the NFL destroyed, possibly forever.

Brian Banks, now 26, has gone through all that.

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