Caring Makes Us Human September 28, 2008 When a scruffy cat wandered into the prison yard at a Michigan correctional facility, Troy Chapman says, the little orange stray disrupted the tough code of prison culture. Chapman, who was convicted of murder in 1985, says the cat reminded him that everyone wants to be needed. Caring Makes Us Human Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/95088503/95144705" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Opinion Gay Fashion: The New Straight Fashion September 25, 2008 Youth Radio's Mark Anthony Waters used to hear straight guys in his inner-city neighborhood whisper about his style on the bus. Now, they're copying his look. Gay Fashion: The New Straight Fashion Listen · 3:45 3:45 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/95037171/95041556" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Wynton Marsalis Moves Jazz To 'Higher Ground' September 2, 2008 Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis says that music is the "art of the invisible" — it is memory, intention and imagination. Marsalis explains his relationship to jazz in his new book, Moving to Higher Ground, and talks about how music changed his life. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/94198246/94198236" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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In Character Charlotte A. Cavatica: Bloodthirsty, Wise And True August 4, 2008 She's a spider's spider — sophisticated, pretty (by her own account), authoritarian — and she says something profound about love and commitment. Melissa Block looks at the heroine of Charlotte's Web. Charlotte A. Cavatica: Bloodthirsty, Wise And True Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/93263496/93278560" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Loan Officer Flies To The Rescue Of Baby Ducks July 19, 2008 A story is making the e-mail rounds about a man who saved some baby ducks that had been nesting on an awning outside his office window. When they began jumping down, "Duck Hero" Joel Armstrong rushed to catch them so they wouldn't hit the sidewalk. Loan Officer Flies To The Rescue Of Baby Ducks Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/92709209/92710397" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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A Bra's Tale: Detour On A Daughter's Trip Abroad June 27, 2008 As a young woman, Betty Jenkins received a gift from her mother that was meant to attract the attention of young men. But as Jenkins tells her niece, the attention she got wasn't the kind she was expecting. The gift was an inflatable bra designed to enhance its wearer's figure. It worked well — until she got on a plane. A Bra's Tale: Detour On A Daughter's Trip Abroad Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91943477/91955571" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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A Mother's Bittersweet Memories May 30, 2008 A decision to let her son enjoy a few moments of independence and beauty ended in tragedy. But out of Rich Stark's death in a car accident, Myra Dean managed to extract small comforts. A Mother's Bittersweet Memories Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90959458/90981407" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Opinion In 'A Dog's Life,' One Student Finds Strength May 26, 2008 In essays on the 'In Character' blog, NPR audiences have been waxing thoughtful about their own favorite characters. An 11-year-old, in foster care for the past four years, says he feels a kinship with the protagonist of A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray. In 'A Dog's Life,' One Student Finds Strength Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90832166/90832125" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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French Families Adopt U.S. Graves in Normandy May 26, 2008 Eight years ago, a French couple founded an organization that adopts graves of American servicemen who died during the Normandy invasion of World War II. The volunteer group encourages French families to lay flowers on the graves when the Americans' own families can't do it. French Families Adopt U.S. Graves in Normandy Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90824280/90824254" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Slugging to Work: Anonymous Ride-Sharing May 22, 2008 If you've ever sat in rush-hour traffic, gazing longingly at the cars rushing by in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes, try doing something your parents warned you never to do: Hop in a car with a complete stranger behind the wheel. Slugging to Work: Anonymous Ride-Sharing Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90700559/90714685" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Meet NYC's Newly Crowned Subway Busker May 16, 2008 Balla Tounkara, a kora player from Mali, is the winner of the Bryant Park Project's NYC Subway Busker Poll and one of the city's newest official underground musicians. Meet NYC's Newly Crowned Subway Busker Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90506541/90506516" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Couple Frantic to Find Loved Ones in Rubble May 14, 2008 Rescuers worked frantically throughout southwestern China on Wednesday to reach the thousands of people still trapped in the rubble after Monday's devastating earthquake. But, as the day faded, so did the hope that many of the missing would be found alive. Listen to Melissa Block's story 11:43 Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90447603/90447566" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Identity May 7, 2008 Thousands of miles apart, two families noticed their toddler sons gravitated toward toys, colors and clothes generally associated with girls. Each family eventually decided to go with radically different approaches to their child's identity issues, as directed by their therapists. Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Identity Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90247842/90259905" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Dan Gottlieb, 'Learning from the Heart' Fresh Air April 29, 2008 He's helped many people through painful passages in their lives. And he's faced his own: Since a near-fatal auto accident in 1979, he's been paralyzed from the chest down. Gottlieb has had nearly three decades to come to terms with the changed circumstances of his body — but now, he fears, that body may be growing tired. Dan Gottlieb, 'Learning from the Heart' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90033157/90033714" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Radio Rookies: 'Aging Out' of Foster Care April 11, 2008 Shirley Diaz grew up in foster care. Now almost 21, she's on the verge of aging out of the system. As part of "Radio Rookies," a project at WNYC that teaches teenagers to tell radio stories in their own words, Diaz takes listeners into her world as she looks ahead to an uncertain future and back to the violent tragedy that shaped her teenage years. Radio Rookies: 'Aging Out' of Foster Care Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/89570059/89570035" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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