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Melissa Block, Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish

Since its debut in 1971, All Things Considered has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday afternoon, hosts Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, and Audie Cornish bring listeners breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features. WNIJ airs a one-hour edition of the program at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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Jamaica Does Literary Fest With A Caribbean Twist

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Ethiopian novelist Maaza Mengiste reads from her latest novel on the second night of this year's Calabash festival. Mengiste says the audience at Calabash is one of a kind.

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Calabash co-founder Kwame Dawes (left) facilitates a discussion with author and sociology scholar Orlando Patterson at this year's Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica.

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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 5:23 pm

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There's a stretch of beach in the small Jamaican fishing village of Treasure Beach where booths sell poetry books right alongside jerk chicken, and local villagers mix with international literati. On a weekend in late May, some 2,000 people sit entranced as author and poet Fred D'Aguiar reads them his work from a bamboo lectern.

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Thu July 5, 2012

CEO Ruffles Lawmakers By Using Their First Names

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Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 12:56 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Think of situations where it's expected for people of any rank and station to address one another by first name: a progressive school, an AA meeting, the Israeli Army. Well, now think of places where you wouldn't be caught dead addressing or referring to authority figures with such informality. Imagine the solicitor general, at the Supreme Court, opening his argument not this way...

DONALD VERRILLI: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court.

2:09 pm

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An AIDS-Ravaged Nation Turns To Circumcision

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Joseph Ochieng, 18, gets circumcised at the Siaya General Hospital in western Kenya.

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A health worker in western Kenya talks to young men about the benefits of male circumcision.

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Outreach workers are trying to persuade local fishermen to get circumcised.

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At Osindo Beach, local fishermen come in from fishing on Lake Victoria. Some fishermen are reluctant to get circumcised because they would miss three days of work.

By Jason Beaubien

Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 5:23 pm

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The African nation of Kenya is attempting to get more than 1 million men between the ages of 15 and 49 circumcised by the end of 2013. If successful, this could be a groundbreaking effort in the fight to curb the spread of HIV.

12:58 pm

Thu July 5, 2012

Bull Fights, Bankruptcy And A Damn Dangerous Book

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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 5:23 pm

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Ben Mezrich is the author of Sex on the Moon.

Around the time I turned 12, I figured out exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up: an alcoholic.

I didn't actually know what it meant to be an alcoholic, but I knew that one day, I would drink copious amounts and dash around the streets of Paris, preferably in the company of bullfighters, bankrupts, impotent newspaper correspondents, and morbidly depressed, exotically beautiful divorcees.

11:18 am

Thu July 5, 2012

After A Forced Abortion, A Roaring Debate In China

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Feng Jianmei and her husband could not pay $6,000 in fines for violating China's one-child policy. In June, when she was seven months pregnant, local officials abducted her and forced her to have an abortion, her family says. The case has provoked widespread outrage.

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People wait to have their blood pressure checked in Shanghai in April. China's one-child policy is more than just a human rights issue; demographers warn that the low birth rate will result in a shortage of workers to drive the economy.

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A mother and child walk in Shanghai. China's one-child policy has been in place since 1979. There's now a debate about whether the policy should be eased or dropped.

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Young and old exercise at the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing in October. Experts say China's health care costs will be difficult to fund due to the population imbalance.

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Zhang Yanyun paints buildings in east China's Jiangsu province. He has three kids, but wishes he only had one because raising a child in China has become so expensive.

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A mother feeds her child in Beijing, Oct. 24, 2011. Experts say many Chinese do not want to have additional children, regardless of official policy.

By Frank Langfitt

Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 10:09 pm

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Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, a couple from northwest China's Shaanxi province, have a 6-year-old daughter. Under China's complicated birth calculus, they were barred from having another child. But they tried anyway.

"We planned this pregnancy because our parents are old, they want us to have another child," Deng, 30, explained by cellphone last month from his home in Shaanxi.

That decision led to a sequence of events that has ignited a firestorm and renewed debate over the country's one-child policy.

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