'Treme' Cookbook Captures The Flavor Of A Show And A City
If you find yourself craving New Orleans food, you could go there and melt in the sweltering heat for a dose of gumbo or praline bacon. Or you could settle in on your couch, as I've been doing, and...
View ArticleBrazil's New Middle Class: A Better Life, Not An Easy One
Tens of millions of Brazilians have risen out of poverty over the past decade in one of the world's great economic success stories. The reasons are many: strong overall economic growth, fueled by...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase Agrees To Pay $5.1 Billion To Feds
JPMorgan Chase agreed pay $5.1 billion to settle litigation over mortgage assets sold during the housing bubble. The deal, announced late Friday afternoon, is to resolve claims the company misled...
View ArticleSidelined By Brain Injury, Ex-NFL Player Copes With 'Desperation'
The home of Sean Morey bears the impressive signposts of his 10-year career in the NFL: a Vince Lombardi trophy for his Super Bowl championship with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006. A hefty Super Bowl...
View ArticleMore Findings, More Questions About Value Of Mammograms
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: There's new evidence out today that's raising questions about whether women in their 40's and 50's should routinely undergo mammography to detect breast cancer. A new...
View ArticleLetters: Genetic Experiments And Hopes For Saving Voices
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Finally this hour: Your letters. We heard from Aaron Berger, a high school biology teacher in Minneapolis. He listened closely to our conversation this week about...
View ArticleFake Chef, Real Recipes — And The Food's Disgusting
Nick Preuher is no chef; he only plays one on TV. More accurately, he has pretended to be one, appearing on various local morning television shows as a prank.
View ArticleTell Your Bestie: The OED Has New Words
The Oxford English Dictionary is adding some 900 new words and phrases to its pages, with wackadoodle, bestie and DIYer among them. Melissa and Robert review some of the new entries.
View ArticleOrthotic Brace Takes Soldiers From Limping To Leaping
A deceptively simple leg brace is changing the lives of hundreds of wounded service members. Soldiers with badly injured legs who thought they'd have to live with terrible pain can walk and run again,...
View ArticleAs Texas Gets More Diverse, Educators Grab The Bull By The Horns
Texas is in the midst of a population boom and demographic sea change. It's grown faster than any other state and has more than doubled its population in just 40 years, from 11 to 26 million people.And...
View ArticleOn Base And In Town, Shooting Summons A Dread All Too Familiar
From Killeen, Texas, where Fort Hood is based, Melissa Block talks to soldiers who were on base during the shooting, as well as with Killeen's mayor. The mayor explains how the town is trying to cope.
View ArticleAnother Tragedy For A City All Too Familiar With Extreme Gun Violence
Flags are fluttering at half-staff across Killeen, Texas, after yesterday's shooting at Fort Hood. This is a city that's all too familiar with spasms of extreme gun violence: a shooting rampage at...
View ArticleIn NCAA Finals, Two Recent Champions On Unlikely Rides
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block.It's Huskies versus Wildcats as the Men's Division I college...
View ArticleDrilling Frenzy Fuels Sudden Growth In Small Texas Town
South Texas is in the midst of a massive oil boom. In just a few years, it has totally transformed once-sleepy communities along a crescent swoosh known as the Eagle Ford Shale formation and has...
View ArticleLBJ Carried Poor Texas Town With Him In Civil Rights Fight
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View ArticleNew Browser Plug-in Would Literally Annihilate This Headline
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This next story is literally about the word...UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Literally.CORNISH: ...literally. As in a literal sense or manner.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: That's also the...
View ArticleIn Answer To Palestinian Unity, Israelis Step Away From Peace Talks
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel has broken off peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. Israeli leaders say they're doing that because the Palestinian Authority...
View ArticleStanford Dumps Its Holdings In Coal, With Climate In Mind
Stanford says it will its divest holdings in coal companies over climate change concerns. It's the most prominent of the roughly one dozen colleges that have decided to sell off fossil fuel holdings.
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'The New York Times' Announces Surprise Change Of Management
The New York Times has announced that Dean Baquet, the newspaper's managing editor, will replace Jill Abramson as the executive editor. Both Abramson and Baquet were named to their current jobs in...
View ArticleTo Pay For Hepatitis C Drugs, Medicare Might Face A Steep Bill
The federal Medicare program for the elderly and disabled will cover two new drugs that can cure hepatitis C, a liver disease that can cause cancer and lead to death. The drugs are very expensive, but...
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