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Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block

All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block. 

During each broadcast, stories and reports come to listeners from NPR reporters and correspondents based throughout the United States and the world. The hosts interview newsmakers and contribute their own reporting.

All Things Considered has earned many of journalism's highest honors, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.

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Middle East
4:33 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Syrian Refugees Move Into Lebanon's Crowded Camps

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The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are overcrowded and run down. But Syrian refugees are moving in as they flee the fighting in their homeland.
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Originally published on Sun September 9, 2012 7:34 am

The conflict in Syria is sending a staggering number of refugees into neighboring countries. Turkey, Jordan and even Iraq are building tent cities.

But Lebanon has yet to build such camps. The country is already home to more than a dozen teeming, squalid camps for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled the war after Israel's creation in 1948, as well as their descendants.

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Author Interviews
3:49 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Getting Around To Writing 'Art Of Procrastination'

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John Perry is the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and co-host of the public radio program Philosophy Talk.
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Originally published on Mon September 10, 2012 10:12 am

At the end of July, when NPR's Robert Siegel set off on the longest vacation since his honeymoon 39 years ago, he packed a few books, including the new book The Art of Procrastination by John Perry, emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford.

After two weeks in Delaware, two weeks in Iberia and a week of work in Tampa, Fla., Siegel finally finished it Wednesday night. He says his timing is fitting: The book is 92 small, double-spaced pages.

It expands on a short confessional essay Perry wrote in 1996 called "Structured Procrastination."

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Television
3:49 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

NFL And DNC Compete For Prime Time Viewers

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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 6:09 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

People in Charlotte are watching the convention by the thousands, but people who are watching on television are doing so by the millions. Last night, the convention had some serious TV competition. NBC went with the NFL season opener, the Cowboys-Giants game, instead of Bill Clinton's speech.

How many people are watching the conventions? We turn now to Eric Deggans, who is TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times. Hi, Eric.

ERIC DEGGANS: How are you doing?

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Presidential Race
3:49 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Obama Hopes To Build On Energy of Others At DNC

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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 6:09 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

And this is President Obama's big night in Charlotte. After two days of impassioned speeches by others, making the case for his re-election, Mr. Obama takes the stage later tonight. And this hour we begin in Charlotte with NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Hi, Mara.

MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi, Robert.

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Music Reviews
2:26 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Cat Power Rips It Up, Starts Again

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Chan Marshall, better known by the name Cat Power, takes a new approach on her latest record, Sun.
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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 6:09 pm

I recently listened to the first single from the new Cat Power album with some fellow fans, and the room was deeply divided. Some thought the song was fabulous, but others were startled and upset — which I could understand, sort of. Chan Marshall's songs generally speak to pain and trauma with a hushed and intimate musical vocabulary. But this song, "Ruin," was different — not just a rock 'n' roll song, but one you might even want to dance to.

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Latin America
9:34 am
Thu September 6, 2012

Guess Who's Chopping Down The Amazon Now?

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Loggers discuss the day's plan in a camp called Puesto Viejo, or "old post."
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Tree logs are marked for shipping.
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A logger watches a machine move logs to be measured, trimmed and marked before inspection by ABT — Bolivia's agency of forests and land. They will then be transported to Ascencion de Guarayos.
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A worker measures logs. They will be trimmed if they are deemed too long for transport.
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A truck takes logs to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos in the Bolivian Amazon jungle.
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Among the eight countries that the Amazon spans, Bolivia has the highest rate of deforestation. Here, Agustin Villa cuts down timber in the Amazon jungle. The logs will be transported to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos, Santa Cruz province.
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Every year in Bolivia, a swath of forest two-thirds the size of Delaware is cleared of trees. The trees range from silk-cotton hardwoods and fig trees to ceibas — some of them 80 feet tall and decades old.
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The town of Ascencion de Guarayos is the gateway to the Amazon jungle in Santa Cruz province. Here, brass band musicians walk on the streets during a festival.
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Agustin Villa cuts down a tree in the Amazon jungle, in Santa Cruz province, Bolivia, 2012.
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Logs in the Bolivian forest are moved, measured, trimmed and tagged for inspection by ABT — the Bolivian agency of forests and land — before being transported by truck to the town of Ascencion de Guarayos.
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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 7:20 pm

Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise.

As a result, the 40 percent of Amazonia located in a moon-shaped arc of countries from Bolivia to Colombia to French Guiana faces a more serious threat than the jungle in Brazil. The culprits range from ranching to soybean farming, logging to infrastructure development projects.

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Crisis In The Housing Market
4:56 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Democratic Convention Draws Troubled Homeowners

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David Sole rode a bus from Detroit to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., to protest how the Obama administration and the nation's banks have handled the foreclosure crisis.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 6:03 pm

Charlotte, N.C., host of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, is the nation's biggest financial center outside of New York. But Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County have the highest foreclosure rates in the state, and many thousands of homeowners owe more on their homes than the properties are worth.

As thousands of Democrats converge in Charlotte for the convention, some troubled homeowners have also gathered, lamenting that the foreclosure crisis has not been sufficiently front and center in the presidential campaign.

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The Salt
4:05 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Recession Still Hurting U.S. Families Trying To Put Food On The Table

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Jacque Holland, 43, of Milwaukee picks up food at the food pantry at United Methodist Children's Services of Wisconsin.
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Originally published on Wed September 19, 2012 3:12 pm

The number of U.S. families struggling to put enough food on the table remains at record-high levels, according to new figures out today from the government. Last year, 1 in almost 7 households were what the government calls "food insecure." That's about the same level as in 2010, but still far higher than before the recession.

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The Two-Way
3:52 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Oscar Pistorius Seeks Redemption In Race To Be The World's Fastest Amputee

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In a surprise finish, Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira (left) races past South Africa's Oscar Pistorius to win a gold medal in the 200-meter race at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
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Jerome Singleton, a single amputee, will challenge Oscar Pistorius in the Paralympic 100-meter race.
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Pistorius and American Blake Leeper, seen here, share the fastest time for a double amputee in the 100-meter sprint.
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Originally published on Thu September 6, 2012 5:43 am

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Music News
3:45 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Music Is Everywhere: John Cage At 100

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John Cage during his 1966 concert at the opening of the National Arts Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 5:05 pm

OK, let's get the elephant out of the room right away. John Cage's most famous, or infamous, work is "4'33"," in which a musician walks onstage and sits at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

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