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Whether revealing events in small-town America or overseas, or profiling notable personalities, Weekend Edition from Northwest Public Radio & NPR News appreciates the extraordinary details that make up every story. Join Bruce Bradberry and other Northwest Public Radio hosts for this two-hour weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.

Weekend Edition Sunday combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features, appealing to the curious and eclectic. Conceived as a cross between a Sunday newspaper and CBS' Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The highlight for many listeners is the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.

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'Up Jumped Spring': The Season In Song

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Spring arrived this past week, and guest host Susan Stamberg offers this musical bouquet for the season by the great jazz singer Abbey Lincoln.

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Sun March 25, 2012

A Book Gets New Life After Movie's Buzz

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Sun March 25, 2012

The Voice That Gets You Where You Need To Go

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Carolyn Hopkins is the voice behind public service announcements at airports, subways and theme parks. She tells you a train is coming, to step away from the platform, or to please pay attention to your luggage. And she does it all from her home in northern Maine. Guest host Susan Stamberg talks with Hopkins about her work.

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5:00 am

Sun March 25, 2012

Health Care Law Heads To The High Court

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5:00 am

Sun March 25, 2012

Supreme Court Doesn't Budge On Push For Cameras

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Not one second of the six hours of arguments on the health care law will be either seen or heard in real time by anyone not at the Supreme Court. The nation's highest court has turned down requests to allow live broadcasts of this week's historic proceedings.

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Sun March 25, 2012

A Teacher's Ultimatum Drives Student's Success

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Raul Bravo had Clairene Terry as an automotive teacher in high school. Now, he is pursuing an associate degree in automotive technology.

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In high school, Raul Bravo asked himself whether it was worth getting a diploma. He saw other ways of making money to buy the best Nikes.

"At that age, I've seen many of my friends making fast money drug dealing," he says.

Now 21, Bravo is an auto mechanic in Chicago. He never thought about a career working on cars, until he met automotive teacher Clairene Terry.

Terry says counselors warned her about Bravo — he was a failing student who wasn't going to class.

3:08 am

Sun March 25, 2012

Lost Play Found: The 'Exorcism' of Eugene O'Neill

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Exorcism, an O'Neill play thought to be lost forever, was recently unearthed in manuscript form. O'Neill's second wife had sent it to a friend as a Christmas gift.

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Eugene O'Neill is the author of canonical American plays such as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night.

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"Oh, no, no," Washington Post drama critic Peter Marks wrote recently. "Not Eugene O'Neill."

Marks was reacting to an ambitious O'Neill festival underway at various theatres in Washington, D.C. To many, O'Neill remains the quintessential playwright of miserable people in miserable families leading miserable lives full of misery. And booze.

9:01 pm

Sat March 24, 2012

What Would Joan Harris Do? Eleanor Clift Remembers 'Mad' Times At Newsweek

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Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks) is one of the women of Mad Men, which returns Sunday night on AMC.

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With Sunday's long-awaited fifth-season premiere of Mad Men finally arriving, Eleanor Clift recently wrote a cover story for Newsweek about what it was like for her as a young employee at Newsweek at around the same time, in the late 1960s, that the show is set. On Sunday's Weekend Edition, she talks to Susan Stamberg about what that time was like.

5:41 pm

Sat March 24, 2012

Don't Be Lax With Your Answers

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By Will Shortz

On-Air Challenge: Every answer today is a word or phrase containing the consecutive letters A-X. You'll be given clues and anagrams to the answers.

Last Week's Challenge: Take the phrase "no sweat." Using only these seven letters, and repeating them as often as necessary, can you make a familiar four-word phrase? It's 15 letters long. What is it?

Answer: The phrase is "waste not, want not."

Winner: Alison Haskins of Oxford, Ohio

5:00 am

Sun March 18, 2012

A 'Wild,' Solitary Journey On The Pacific Crest Trail

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