Sixty years ago tomorrow, a young man named Jack Aeby snapped one of history's most important photographs -- the only color picture of the first atomic bomb test. Aeby was a 21-year-old amateur photographer. He was working as a technician on the Manh

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While one of the most pressing political and social issues facing the Arab world rarely makes headlines, it is an issue that some political analysts believe could lead to the next great confrontation in the region. Rapidly expanding Arab populations

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And now a question we're all pondering: Whats on the mind of an unmarried man? Day to Day contributor Brian Unger is single, but even he doesnt have a clue, still he says the New York Times is searching for an answer. On Friday, gawker.com, a website

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Two airlines Continental and American are reporting something pretty rare in the airline industry lately--- profits. American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier announced yesterday that it had net earnings of 58 million dollars in its most recen

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At a brief joint news conference with the Prime Minister of Australia,President Bush was asked today about China.The president noted that there are many dimensions to US-China relations including economic relations.This is part of what he said: I th

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From NPR news, this is All Things Considered. I'm Michelle Noris. and I am Robert Seagull. China has been in the news a lot lately. Its economy is booming. Its military is modernizing. But some of the country's most important changes are taking plac

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On Mondays we focus on the business of techonology and today we'll hear about an effort to make money with blogs. Millions of people publish internet weblogs or blogs but among the few people who do it for profit is Jason McCabe Calacanis. A year and

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This is All Things Considered from NPR news. I'm Michelle Noris. And I am Robert Seagull, and we are going to continue now with our series on the growing sense of individualism in China. The series is called A Nation of Individuals. After decades of

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This is Morning Edition from NPR news.I am Steven Skip and I am Renee Montagne .Time now for our consumer health segment. Lots of people turn to physical exercise to get their bodies in shape. The concept of reshaping the mind is more elusive. Some

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The Chinese offshore oil corporation known as CNOOC has abandoned its bid for UNOCAL. This would have been the largest-ever purchase of an American company by a Chinese firm. CNOOC had put forth a bid that was higher than the competing bid from US o

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And now for Money Myths, a new feature from Michelle Singletary. She is Day to Days personal finance contributor, and a regular Tuesday guest. And as the title implies, Michelle will try to correct some financial myths we all may have. She spoke ear

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On Friday is the Business Report, focuses on your money or in this case, your lack of it. Most Americans simply are not saving anything. The savings rate fell to zero in June which is the lowest level since October of 2001. Now it's commonly said th

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When I travel I often read obituaries, many can and should make you sad, the 26-year-old mother of 2 who dies in a fire, the 16-year-old student who goes out with friends and gets killed in a car crash. But many others, especially during weeks like

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This is Day to Day, Im Milany Braney, in a few minutes well hear what critics are saying about this weeks movie releases, but first in the future our coat buttons will take pictures and our underwear will telephone home when we are in trouble. Thats

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Today we are going to wrap up our series A Nation of Individuals. All week weve been examining the rise of individualism in China. We've heard about an Internet entrepreneur, an AIDS activist, a village leader and an evangelical Christian. In this fi

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Commentator Gwen Macsai is the mother of 2 boys and she has no idea how to prepare her sons for the craziness of girls. My sons have a total of 4 emotional gears: happy, sad, mad and hungry. My daughters emotional landscape, on the other hand, is lik

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Desertion is the title of a new novel by Zanzibar-born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah. It opens in 1899 along the East African Coast. Alan Cheuse has a review. A white stranger, sick and wounded, staggers into a small East African town. A local shop owner

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Close to home, another natural disaster is having a major impact on parts of the Midwest, it's one of the worst droughts in decades, thousands of Illinois farmers may lose as much as a third of their crops. And the federal government is expected to d

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.....the financial world today with a deal to acquire MBNA. MBNA is the largest independent issuer of credit cards in the world. If the deal goes through, Bank of America will pay about 35 billion dollars in cash and stock and wind up with about 20%

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At 46, Steve Case has built a career full of superlatives. He founded American Online and turned it into the country's most successful internet service provider, but Case also guided one of the messiest corporate mergers in recent history when AOL jo

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