All Things Considered for October 30, 2012 Hear the All Things Considered program for October 30, 2012
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Crazy Horse doesn't just redeem Neil Young's mawkish moments — it transforms them. From left, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, Neil Young and Billy Talbot are Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Julie Gardner/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Sarah Bidgood is managing editor of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. She says her parents helped her start adult life with no debt, giving her a leg up. Art Silverman/NPR hide caption
President Obama's performance in the first presidential debate cost him a lot. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Re-Election Campaign Reveals A President Looking For The Right Balance
A bloodied woman is helped by demonstrators after clashes with police in a protest against an industrial waste pipeline in Qidong, Jiangsu province, on July 28. The Chinese government devotes enormous resources to suppressing dissent, but opposition to government policies is increasingly common. Carlos Barria/Reuters/Landov hide caption
From left, Dale McKey, Karin McKey and George Secrist return home from an outing into the snow on Tuesday. Maggie Starbard/NPR hide caption
Cray employees put the finishing touches on Titan at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The supercomputer may be the world's fastest. It's designed to do 20 petaflops — or 20,000 trillion calculations — each second. It consumes enough electricity to power a small city of 9,000 people. Courtesy of Nvidia hide caption
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