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- A Composer At The Edge Of Sound
- Tod Machover's goal is to put music into the hands of people who want to play it — or at least imagine it. He and his team at MIT helped to create Guitar Hero, and one of his latest projects helps people with disabilities write and perform music.
- Election Exclamations Around The World
- Election comments we've collected on our sound map to President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
- College Boot Camp For Veterans
- Colleges and universities across the country are seeing more and more veterans enroll. Some states, like California, have set up special classes to help the vets get oriented to an environment that can be as confusing as serving in Iraq. NPR's John McChesney visited a veterans' class at the University of California Berkeley to see if these programs are helping.
- Letters: Middle Class Squeeze
- Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners about our series on the middle class squeeze, Sylvia Poggioli's monthly feature, "Letters from Europe," and the Persian music group Niyaz.
- The Implications Of The G-20 Summit
- Host Liane Hansen speaks with David McCormick, the U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, about the G20 world economic summit.
- Russian Reaction To The G-20 Summit
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Washington this weekend to meet with the Council on Foreign Relations after the G-20 economic summit. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr attended the meeting and talks to Liane Hansen about what was discussed.
- Military's First Female Four-Star General
- The Army now has the first woman four-star general in the history of the American armed forces. Gen. Ann Dunwoody grew up in an Army family — her father served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Now, his daughter will lead the Army Materiel Command.
- Stores Try To Turn Holidays Happy
- Liane Hansen speaks with Natalie Zmuda, retail reporter for the trade publication, Advertising Age, about how retailers are changing their advertising and marketing strategies this holiday season while the economic downturn is making shoppers more fearful about their finances.
- Time To Invest In Gold?
- Liane Hansen speaks with nationally syndicated columnist Jane Bryant Quinn about her advice on investing in gold during the economic downturn.
- French Mass Of Remembrance For Sausage Makers
- Liane Hansen speaks with Saveur magazine contributor Christopher Hall about the Messe du Souvenir de la Charcuterie Francaise — the French Mass of Remembrance for Sausage Makers. Today marks the 200th celebration of the event at St. Eustache Church in Paris.
- How A-Bomb Testing Changed Our Trees
- British, American, Russian and French nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and '60s left permanent records in trees around the globe. Scientists have found chemical signatures of the explosions in the wood of old trees in many countries.
- 'Nights & Weekends'
- Host Liane Hansen talks with filmmakers and actors Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig about their new film, Nights And Weekends.
- IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound
- A mecca for classical composers looking for ways to bridge music and technology, IRCAM in Paris has been an incubator for some of the most compelling developments in contemporary classical music and acoustics of the past three decades.
- Sure Bet You'll Know
- The letters S-B stand for seat belt. They also stand for some other familiar two word phrases.
- Violence Rises In Iraq, But How Bad Is It?
- There's been a recent upsurge of bombing attacks on police patrols and civilians. But it's difficult to gauge how serious the upsurge may be, because U.S. and Iraqi sources give widely differing reports of the casualties.
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