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At A Brooklyn Cemetery, A Place Of Work — And An Enduring Memorial

After Isaac Feliciano's wife was killed on Sept. 11, he kept going to work at the cemetery, where he's been for 21 years. These days it's also a return to his own "ground zero": his wife's gravesite.

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'I Was That Kid': Beirut's Zach Condon On Self-Discovery

Ten years after Gulag Orkestar, the extravagantly arrayed breakthrough album he wrote as a teenager, Condon says he's finally learning how to be subtle.

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After Sandy, Katrina And Sept. 11, This Sculptor Finds Art In Survival

Christopher Saucedo lost a brother in the twin towers, and two of his houses were flooded in the storms. He says he hopes his art shows people what it means to lose and how we manage to survive.

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Zainab Abbas, husband Ahmed Hadi Jawad and their surviving daughter, Rawan, show photos of 10-year-old Zainab and 9-year-old Haider. The two children perished after a wave swept over their boat crossing the Aegean last week — the same boat carrying 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi and his family. Alice Fordham/NPR hide caption

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