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5:52 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

Speakers At The Republican Convention

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Key speakers Tuesday include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ann Romney, the wife of the GOP presidential nominee.

NPR Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century
2:22 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

Parks Vie For Space In Miami's Forest Of Condos

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The skyline of the northern Brickell neighborhood in downtown Miami. Its residential population has more than doubled in the past decade.
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A site plan Brickell Green Space commissioned of the park it hopes to see built in downtown Miami. The space would include tennis courts, open fields and a jogging loop.
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Children play at the 1814 Brickell Park, a new park that features benches, a paved path and a monument made of a girder from the World Trade Center.
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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 5:52 pm

Many cities around the nation are trying to revive their downtowns, adding more apartments and condominiums — usually high-rises — to lure new residents.

But as urban dwellers grow in numbers, they need places to get outside. Yet, in many cities, like Miami, neighborhood parks can be hard to find. The Trust for Public Land ranks Miami 94 on a list of 100 cities when it comes to park acreage per 1,000 residents — just 2.8 acres per 1,000 residents, versus 4.5 in New York and 6.2 in Los Angeles.

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Music Interviews
2:16 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

Dan Deacon On Computers, College And 'Electronic Music'

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Dan Deacon's latest project combines his signature electronic sound with live musicians and instruments.
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Sports
2:12 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

Debate Pits Strasburg's Health Against Wins

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Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals pitches against the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park last week.
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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 5:52 pm

One of the biggest debates in Washington, D.C., these days has nothing to do with taxes, health care or the economy. It's about baseball and whether the Washington Nationals should end the season of their young pitching star, Stephen Strasburg, just as the team may be headed for the playoffs.

Two years ago, Strasburg's promising career was threatened when he tore a ligament in his pitching arm. He needed surgery and couldn't pitch for a year.

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The Two-Way
1:43 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

Malcolm Browne, Journalist Who Took The 'Burning Monk' Photo, Dies

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Journalist Malcome Browne took this iconic photo of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon in 1963. The monk committed suicide to protest what he called government persecution of Buddhists. Browne, who worked for the AP and later The New York Times, died Monday at age 81.
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Browne is pictured in 1965 while working as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Saigon, South Vietnam.
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Browne (left) is seen with AP photographer Horst Faas in the Saigon office, April 3, 1964.
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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 7:36 pm

Malcolm Browne was a first-rate reporter who spent decades at The New York Times, covered wars around the world and won the Pulitzer Prize for his writing about the early days of the Vietnam war.

And yet he will forever be remembered for one famous picture, the 1963 photo of a Buddhist monk who calmly set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest against the South Vietnamese government, which was being supported by the U.S.

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Politics
1:27 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

High Profile Names To Speak On RNC's First Full Day

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Originally published on Wed August 29, 2012 10:07 am

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.

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And I'm Melissa Block.

This afternoon in Tampa, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus raised a gavel.

(SOUNDBITE OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION)

REINCE PRIEBUS: This convention will come to order.

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Around the Nation
1:27 pm
Tue August 28, 2012

New Orleans Says It's Ready For Hurricane Isaac

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Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 5:52 pm

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

And I'm Audie Cornish. In New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered this news this afternoon.

MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU: Isaac has now formed into a hurricane so we are officially in the fight and the city of New Orleans is on the front lines.

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All Tech Considered
3:23 pm
Mon August 27, 2012

Online University For All Balances Big Goals, Expensive Realities

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Naylea Omayra Villanueva Sanchez says her location near the Amazon rain forest in Peru, combined with a disability, makes a traditional university education impossible.
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Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 3:54 pm

Naylea Omayra Villanueva Sanchez, 22, lives on the edge of the Amazon rain forest in Tarapoto, northern Peru.

"Where I live, there's only jungle," Villanueva Sanchez says through an interpreter. "A university education is inaccessible."

And that's true in more ways than one. Villanueva Sanchez is in a wheelchair, the result of a motorcycle accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

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Law
3:23 pm
Mon August 27, 2012

Judge Halts Ohio Law That Could Discount Votes

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A judge has given Ohio unions a preliminary injunction stopping a new state law that could endanger provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, even if the cause is poll worker error.

U.S.
2:30 pm
Mon August 27, 2012

Court Paves Way For Texas Planned Parenthood Cuts

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Abortion-rights opponents outside a Planned Parenthood of North Texas event in Fort Worth in February. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Texas can defund Planned Parenthood clinics because the organization provides abortions.
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Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 3:23 pm

Officials in Texas say they will cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood following a federal court ruling last week. The decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the state can defund the health clinics because Planned Parenthood is associated with abortion.

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