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Since its debut in 1971, this afternoon radio newsmagazine has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Heard by more than 13 million people on over 600 radio stations each week, All Things Considered is one of the most popular programs in America. Every weekday, hosts Melissa Block, Michele Norris, Robert Siegel, and local host Terry Ward, present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special... sometimes quirky... features. Guy Raz hosts a one-hour edition of the program on Saturday and Sunday.

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NewsPoet: Robert Pinsky Writes The Day In Verse

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Robert Pinsky visits NPR headquarters in Washington D.C., on Thursday.

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Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 11:18 am

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Today at All Things Considered, we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

4:25 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Mozambique Farmland Is Prize In Land Grab Fever

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Young boys thresh soybeans by hand in Ruasse.

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The company Quifel Natural Resources is growing sunflowers near Ruasse. It's part of a land concession that covers 25,000 acres. Sunflowers are valuable for their oil.

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Workers harvest sesame, an oilseed crop, on the large farm that Quifel Natural Resources has set up in northern Mozambique.

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Caterina Alberto is one of Ruasse's most prosperous farmers.

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The Quifel Natural Resources farm near Ruasse sends tanks to draw irrigation water from the stream that also supplies the village's water.

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Vitorino Munalile walks past a field where he used to grow crops. Workers at the investor-owned farm recently plowed up the land for the farm's own use.

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Villagers in Ruasse used this land to grow corn, sugar cane and cassava. A month or two ago, tractors from the Quifel Natural Resources farm plowed it up. The villagers say that they never received any payment for the crops that they lost.

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Getting to the village of Ruasse, in northern Mozambique, involved driving 60 miles on this road. Paved roads are scarce in this country.

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Workers harvest sesame, an oilseed crop, on the large farm that Quifel Natural Resources has set up in northern Mozambique.

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Farming, like most other tasks, is done by hand in rural Mozambique.

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A herd of goats in the village of Ruasse. Notice the power lines — Ruasse is lucky to have them. Many villages in northern Mozambique don't have access to electricity.

By Daniel Charles

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 3:37 pm

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First of a two-part series. Read part 2.

In these days of financial uncertainty, the hot new investment tip is farmland.

4:03 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Walnut Meringue Cookies Sealed With A 'Kiss'

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Listener Jamie Lynn Stevenson's "lost" recipe for walnut meringue cookies was passed down from her great-grandmother Rosina Richardt.

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Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 5:35 pm

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Jamie Lynn Stevenson can still remember the smell of walnut meringue cookies wafting from her great-grandmother's kitchen. The "little piles of heaven," also known in her family as bussels, or "kisses" in German, were dense but chewy, with hints of caramelized nut flavor inside.

"I was just salivating waiting for them," Stevenson recalls. "And the great thing about these cookies is that they didn't take very long to bake!"

3:38 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Can You ID Germany's 'Forest Boy?'

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"Forest boy," who says his name is Ray.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:59 am

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7 a.m. June 15. IMPORTANT UPDATE: 'Forest Boy' Is A Hoax, Police Say.

Our original post:

Take a look at the face.

If you've got any clue as to who this young man is, police in Berlin want to know.

8:23 am

Thu June 14, 2012

Sail Into Summer With Novel Picks From Alan Cheuse

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By Alan Cheuse

Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 6:23 pm

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Head to the bookstore or pick up your Nook or Kindle or iPad, and prepare, if you will, to make some decisions about your summer reading life. My suggestions this year tend to be fine new fiction, the kind that not only flows on the page but also makes a sort of music in your mind. So, word music it is! Strike up the orchestra! It's going to be a big summer for big broad American literary voices, voices that leap from the page and linger with you, echo through your summer and perhaps even beyond.

5:39 pm

Wed June 13, 2012

Romney As Governor: Confrontation, One Big Deal

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Mitt Romney, then the governor-elect of Massachusetts, walks into the House chambers during inaugural ceremonies at the Statehouse in Boston, on Jan. 2, 2003.

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Romney shares a light moment with Senate President Robert E. Travaglini (center) and House Speaker Thomas Finneran before his State of the State address in 2004.

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Romney walks down the central staircase inside the Statehouse during a ceremony marking the end of his term as governor on Jan. 3, 2007.

By David Welna

Originally published on Tue June 19, 2012 1:30 pm

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5:32 pm

Wed June 13, 2012

New Doping Charges Filed Against Lance Armstrong

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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 7:32 pm

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

And I'm Melissa Block. There's news today that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, or USADA, has brought formal doping charges against seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. USADA is the body that fights performance-enhancing drug use in Olympic sports.

5:08 pm

Wed June 13, 2012

French First Lady Sets Country A-Twitter

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French President Francois Hollande's companion, Valerie Trierweiler (left), has sparked a political uproar in France, with a tweet in support of a candidate running against Segolene Royal (right), Hollande's former partner and the mother of his four children.

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French President Francois Hollande (right) with his companion, Valerie Trierweiler, in Tulle, southwestern France, on June 9. Hollande campaigned as a down-to-earth politician, the opposite of his scandal-prone predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.

By Eleanor Beardsley

Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 8:16 pm

Europe may be in major financial and political turmoil, but in France, it's a tweet that has the country in an uproar.

The political storm erupted Tuesday when first lady Valerie Trierweiler tweeted her support for a candidate running in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

That may sound harmless, but the candidate she encouraged is running to unseat prominent politician Segolene Royal, the former partner of President Francois Hollande and the mother of his four children.

4:32 pm

Wed June 13, 2012

Teenage Tales: Sneaking Looks In Sexy Books

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Emily M. Danforth teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence and is an editor for The Cupboard, a quarterly prose chapbook.

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Originally published on Mon June 18, 2012 5:22 pm

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Emily Danforth is the author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

I was at a garage sale with my grandmother when I found a paperback copy of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle.

I was, without much enthusiasm, rummaging through a pile of books. And then I turned over a small paperback. There, on the back, was a reviewer praising this "account of what it's like growing up lesbian ..." I flinched — such a private word to place in such prominence on a book cover.

3:48 pm

Wed June 13, 2012

Finally, A Map Of All The Microbes On Your Body

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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 7:32 pm

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Scientists Wednesday unveiled the first catalog of the bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms that populate every nook and cranny of the human body.

Researchers hope the advance marks an important step towards understanding how microbes help make humans human.

The human body contains about 100 trillion cells, but only maybe one in 10 of those cells is actually — human. The rest are from bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms.

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