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 Transcript 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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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 Transcript 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 Transcript 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 Transcript 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 Transcript 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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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.
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 Transcript 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 Transcript 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 Transcript 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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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 Transcript 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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Movies 'The War Tapes': Soldiers Tell Their Own Iraq Stories June 30, 2006 • Three National Guardsmen chronicle their one-year deployment in Iraq in the new documentary The War Tapes. Sgt. Zach Bazzi, one of the featured soldiers, and producer and editor Steve James discuss the making of the film. 'The War Tapes': Soldiers Tell Their Own Iraq Stories Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524323/5524871" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Science The FDA Turns 100 June 30, 2006 • One hundred years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drugs Act into law. That laid the groundwork for the nation's oldest consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA Turns 100 Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5524912/5524913" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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The Question of Torture Interrogator Questions Stressful Techniques June 30, 2006 • Former Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis talks with Steve Inskeep about the tactics he used on Iraqi detainees, such as isolating them for weeks at a time. Lagouranis says that, overall, very little intelligence was gained through stressful interrogation tactics. Interrogator Questions Stressful Techniques Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5523727/5523728" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Politics Schwarzenegger Back on Track with Budget June 30, 2006 • After suffering political defeats, and watching his popularity plummet, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be in the midst of a comeback. The mostly-Democratic state legislature is adopting a bold new budget that gives the Republican Schwarzenegger most of what he wants. Ina Jaffe reports. Schwarzenegger Back on Track with Budget Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5523730/5523731" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Congress Readies to Give President More Power June 30, 2006 • While some in Congress were please to see the Supreme Court curb President Bush's authority with its Guantanamo ruling, others on Capitol Hill have already set to crafting legislation that would allow the president to handle the detainees as he sees fit. Congress Readies to Give President More Power Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5523745/5523746" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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