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Federal Prosecuters Announce Charges Against 6 Philly Cops

8:19am August 11, 2014

NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Jeremy Roebuck, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, about what the city's police commissioner calls "one of the worst cases of corruption" he has ever heard.

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UC Santa Barbara's Jay Lunden and Andrew Brinkman, a summer intern for NOAA, prepare to deploy an instrument that measures temperature and salinity throughout the water column, and collects water samples.

Underwater Meadows Might Serve As Antacid For Acid Seas

8:14am August 11, 2014

by Christopher Joyce

Marine biologists worry that certain species won't survive the shifts in sea acidity that climate change brings. But research on sea grasses along California's coast suggest marine preserves can help.

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Items Up For Sale At Unclaimed Baggage Center Reflect Trends

8:04am August 11, 2014

by Emily Ochsenschlager

It has been called the lost luggage capital of the world. Bags and suitcases that can't be reunited with their owners end up in northern Alabama at the Unclaimed Baggage Center.

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Exotic Dancers Protest Outside Church

8:04am August 11, 2014

For years, a local church held protests outside a club in central Ohio where the dancers worked. On Sunday, six dancers, dressed for work, showed up to demonstrate outside the church.

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Bulleit is one of 50 different brands a food blogger says is using whiskey from an Indiana factory.

National

Why Your 'Small-Batch' Whiskey Might Taste A Lot Like The Others

3:25pm August 09, 2014

by NPR Staff

A food blogger says dozens of distilleries are buying rye whiskey from a factory in Indiana and using it in bottles labeled "artisan."

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Unlike Some Of Their Fathers, Today's Married Men Seek A 'Full Partner'

6:57pm August 08, 2014

Audie Cornish speaks with Stephanie Coontz, professor of family studies at Evergreen State College, about how American men have changed in marriage and family life over the past 50 years.

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Runaway Toddler Slips Through White House Gate

11:15am August 08, 2014

Secret Service agents scrambled and the White House was put on lock down. A spokesman joked that they do want to interrogate the young man when he learns to talk.

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This photo comes from @dhmath64. He writes: "Me, Summer of 1959."

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Carroll, Iowa: Where The Childhood Paper Route Is Alive And Well

12:21pm August 07, 2014

by Noah Adams

Most newspapers today are delivered by adults in cars, not kids on bikes. But in Carroll, young people who want to make some money on a paper route are growing up in the right place.

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Economy

Summer Food Program Tries To Reach At-Risk Kids

8:09am August 07, 2014

by Sarah Alvarez

For millions of kids, being out of school means missing out on a free or reduced-price meal. Summer food programs try to meet the need but for every child they reach, seven more kids miss out.

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Political Adversaries Work To Reduce Alabama's Prison Population

8:09am August 07, 2014

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican State Sen. Cam Ward and Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Maria Morris about efforts to work across political lines to reduce the state prison population.

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