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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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The Very Best: A Band's Summer Escape With A Message

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Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and Swedish producer Johan Hugo met in a London thrift shop and soon became musical collaborators as The Very Best.

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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 9:45 am

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The high-tech pop intro to The Very Best's song "Kondaine" suggests a carefree summer party. There's Afropop uplift to the sound and Top 40 melodiousness to the vocal.

5:56 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Famous For His Hates: The Cool, Witty Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal arrives at the premiere of Alexander at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2004.

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Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels. His most recent book, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, was published in February.

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Chris Bram is the author of the novel Gods and Monsters.

Gore Vidal was famous for his hates: academia, presidents, whole portions of the American public and, most notably, Truman Capote. Yet he could be incredibly generous to other writer friends. He wrote beautiful, appreciative essays about Tennessee Williams and Dawn Powell.

He was a man of many facets and endless contradictions.

5:15 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Romney Adviser Defends Candidate's Statements About Palestinian Culture

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Dan Senor, senior national security aide to Mitt Romney, speaks to the press en route to Israel from London on Saturday.

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Originally published on Sun August 5, 2012 1:05 pm

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A top foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended statements the Republican presidential candidate made in Israel about the cultural differences between Israelis and Palestinians.

2:52 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Lab Findings Support Provocative Theory On Cancer 'Enemy' Within

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The white arrows in these two tumor samples point to a subset of tumor cells that are in a resting state.

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Originally published on Wed August 1, 2012 4:54 pm

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Scientists reported new evidence Wednesday that supports a provocative theory about cancer.

Three separate teams of scientists said they had, for the first time, shown that so-called cancer stem cells can be found naturally in brain tumors and early forms of skin and colon cancer.

Evidence has been mounting in recent years for the existence of these cells, which would be especially insidious. They are believed to resist standard chemotherapy and radiation and fuel the growth of tumors and relapses.

1:07 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Crustacean Adventures — Love at First Crack

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"Beware the green stuff," says Maggie Shipstead.

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Until she ate lobster, novelist Maggie Shipstead was an avowed anti-seafoodist.

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Originally published on Wed August 1, 2012 4:53 pm

Maggie Shipstead just published her first novel, Seating Arrangements.

There haven't been very many. I started late. Until I was 21, I thought I didn't like seafood. Then I got tipsy and ate a whole lobster, and my life changed.

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