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Carli Lloyd takes a corner kick during a 2010 international friendly match between the U.S. and Mexico in Sandy, Utah.

How Carli Lloyd Became A Soccer Star 'When Nobody Was Watching'

12:21pm September 29, 2016

by NPR Staff

Lloyd's journey to success was long and hard-fought. In her new memoir, she describes how she nearly quit playing soccer and reveals painful details about her strained relationship with her parents.

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James Marsden plays a tourist and Evan Rachel Wood is a rancher's daughter in the HBO series Westworld, which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.

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Old West Gunslinging Meets Futuristic Androids In HBO's 'Westworld'

12:12pm September 29, 2016

by John Powers

HBO's latest series is a high-tech theme park, whose visitors get to live out their wildest dreams of being in the Old West. Critic John Powers calls Westworld an "unexpectedly resonant show."

Curious George — who was originally named Fifi — turns 75 this year. Despite some dated themes (we're looking at you, Man with the Yellow Hat) George is now a multimillion-dollar franchise. Margaret Rey says she and her husband had no idea what Curiou

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Curious George Celebrates 75 Years Of Monkey Business

8:05am September 29, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

George has had many close calls, but did you know he once outran the Nazis? Despite some dated themes (we're looking at you, Man with the Yellow Hat) George is now a multimillion-dollar franchise.

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Hardboiled Historical Noir With A Heart In 'By Gaslight'

7:00am September 29, 2016

by Jean Zimmerman

Steven Price's hefty new novel stars William Pinkerton, whose father founded the famous detective agency that bears his name, plus a colorful cast of Victorian ne'er-do-wells. And a severed head.

Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.

When Mrs. Eisele Took Manhattan: Big City Failed To Awe Minnesota Journalist

11:21pm September 28, 2016

by Kitty Eisele

In 1936, Country Home magazine sent its "rural correspondent of the year" Susan Eisele on a trip to NYC. With a 6-week-old in tow, she soaked up the city and hit it off with hard-bitten newspapermen.

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Agnes Nixon, 'Queen Of Modern Daytime Drama,' Dies at 93

8:47pm September 28, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Soap opera pioneer Agnes Nixon created All My Children and One Life to Live. She was known for exploring challenging and taboo social issues through daytime television.

Award-Winning Campaign To Eliminate Prostitution Takes A Dark Approach

5:30pm September 28, 2016

Riccardo Fregoso, executive creative director of McCann Paris, discusses the firm's Clio Award-winning ad called "The Girls of Paradise," which draws potential johns in for a rude surprise.

Pepe The Frog's Long, Strange Journey — From Internet Meme To Hate Symbol

4:21pm September 28, 2016

by Rose Friedman

The Anti-Defamation League lists a number of symbols used by hate groups. Now among them is a cartoon frog named Pepe — but how did this odd image come to be associated with hate speech?

A photo taken from the Brooklyn Bridge shows the Manhattan skyline, circa 1955.

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'Eyes On The Street' Details Jane Jacobs' Efforts To Put Cities First

1:57pm September 28, 2016

by Maureen Corrigan

Robert Kanigel's new biography recounts the life of Jacobs, a Greenwich Village public intellectual who championed street life and community. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a powerful work.

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'Cloudbound' Is Stunning, But Doesn't Quite Soar

1:55pm September 28, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

Fran Wilde built a glorious world of living bone towers and wing-gliding people in last year's Updraft. Her new Cloudbound has stunning skyscapes but lacks some of the first book's emotional heft.