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Sports
6:07 am
Mon December 10, 2012

NFL Copes With Another Tragedy

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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 6:47 am

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

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Business
6:07 am
Mon December 10, 2012

12 Days Of Tax Deductions

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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:08 am

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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS")

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Ah, 'tis the season for gift giving. And some feel Congress could give us no greater gift than a budget deal that would keep our economy from going off the fiscal cliff.

One idea to raise revenue: reduce the deductions, credits, and other benefits that taxpayers now enjoy.

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

So, in the spirit of this deficit deadline season, we are going to consider them too. It's our 12 Days of Deductions.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS")

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Technology
6:07 am
Mon December 10, 2012

Will U.S.-Made Mac Computers Start A Trend?

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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 6:56 am

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

It's been years since Apple computers were made in this country, but last week, the company's CEO, Tim Cook, announced that was about to change. He said Apple is spending about $100 million to begin manufacturing a line of Macs in the U.S. NPR's Steven Henn reports it's a tiny investment for Apple, but it could be the beginning of a trend by makers of other products.

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Politics
3:44 am
Mon December 10, 2012

How Obama's 2nd Inauguration Will Differ From 2009

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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 5:12 pm

Details are starting to come out about President Obama's inauguration next month. The co-chairs include actress Eva Longoria and some leaders of the Democratic Party and the business world. President Obama's first inauguration set all kinds of records but like most second inaugurals, this one may be less flashy than 2009.

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Superstorm Sandy: Before, During And Beyond
3:35 am
Mon December 10, 2012

Everyone Chip In, Please: Crowdfunding Sandy

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Jenny Adams in the Wayland Bar in Alphabet City, where she stored piles of relief supplies to distribute. Adams raised $10,000 through a crowdfunding website to help her neighbors affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:40 pm

Big-hearted Americans always rush to give money after a disaster. Just how much and how fast is often determined by technology. After the earthquake in Haiti, texting small donations, for example, became a new standard practice.

This time around, Hurricane Sandy has shown crowdfunding websites are a simple tool for quick-response giving. Anyone can go on these sites and ask for money to rebuild or to help their neighbors rebuild. Friends, family and strangers chip in.

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Shots - Health News
3:23 am
Mon December 10, 2012

As Childhood Strokes Increase, Surgeons Aim To Reduce Risks

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Maribel Ramos, 13, has both sickle cell disease and an abnormality of blood vessels called moyamoya. Both put her at risk of stroke, and, together, they add up to a 95 percent chance of a major stroke.
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Brain surgeons Ed Smith (left) and Sarah Jernigan operate on Maribel Ramos' brain. Monitor at upper left shows a portion of Maribel's brain, crossed by the healthy blood vessel they'll use to bring a new supply of blood to her oxygen-starved brain.
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Boston brain surgeon Ed Smith points to a tangle of delicate gray shadows on his computer screen. It's an X-ray of the blood vessels on the left side of 13-year-old Maribel Ramos' brain.

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Fine Art
3:23 am
Mon December 10, 2012

Hopper's Lonely Figures Find Some Friends In Paris

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Edward Hopper is well-known in the U.S. for paintings such as Nighthawks (1942) — pensive, lonely portraits of people sitting together yet alone. He was less well-known in France, but an exhibit of his work at the Grand Palais has drawn impressive crowds.
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Edward and Josephine Hopper met as young students in art school in New York and married in 1924. Josephine was his only female model, and posed for his 1952 work, Morning Sun.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 11:07 am

Earlier this summer, I looked for Edward Hopper's Morning Sun at its home in the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. In the painting, a woman sits on a bed with her knees up, gazing out a window. She's bare, but for a short pink slip. The iconic Hopper is a must-see, but on the day I visited, it was on loan to an exhibition in Madrid.

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Media
3:22 am
Mon December 10, 2012

'Orange County Register' Presses Hum With Optimism

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Ken Brusic, senior vice president for content, works in his office overlooking the 5 Freeway. In the past few weeks, Brusic has hired some two-dozen newsroom positions.
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Copies of The Orange County Register slide through the presses. The Register is the country's 20th most-read daily, with a circulation of about 285,000.
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Circulation numbers are up, which is good news for a paper that used to see double-digit declines.
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A worker inspects a copy of a paper fresh off the presses at The Orange County Register's facility in Santa Ana.
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The Register's parent company, Freedom Communications, filed for bankruptcy three years ago with $770 million in debt.
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Jerry Ascencio, a pressman at The Orange County Register, works in the basement of the presses.
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Bosses at the Register are determined to show that expanding — rather than shrinking — the newspaper is a good idea.
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Workers in the pressroom at The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif., where new owners are trying something unique in the industry: expanding the newsroom and putting the emphasis on print, not digital.
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Bradley McComb, a production and maintenance mechanic, inspects a machine that makes metal plates for the presses.
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Orange County Register publisher Aaron Kushner (left) and company president Eric Spitz. This summer, Kushner's Boston-based investment firm, 2100 Trust, bought Freedom Communications and the Register.
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Recent hires include critics to review food, TV and cars, a society columnist, investigative reporters and sportswriters. The paper is still looking for a movie critic, a magazine writer and more reporters.
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Copies of The Orange County Register slide through the presses. The Register is the country's 20th most-read daily, with a circulation of about 285,000.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 3:01 pm

The Orange Country Register in suburban Los Angeles is expanding its newsroom. Not only that — the owners are emphasizing print, not digital.

In the past few weeks, longtime Register editor Ken Brusic has hired some two-dozen positions: critics to review food, TV and cars, a society columnist and investigative reporters. He's still looking for a movie critic, a magazine writer and many more reporters.

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Asia
3:20 am
Mon December 10, 2012

A Tumultuous Year, Seen Through North Korean Eyes

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North Korean soldiers march during a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on April 15. It was supposed to be the year North Korea would become a "strong and prosperous" nation. That hasn't exactly been the case.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center), accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang on July 25 in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. For North Koreans, it was stunning to see the first lady at the leader's side — and holding his arm.
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Originally published on Mon December 10, 2012 7:39 pm

North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range rocket as it rounds off a tumultuous year marked by the sudden death of leader Kim Jong Il last December, the ascension of his 20-something son, and the humiliating failure of a rocket launch in April.

NPR recently interviewed five North Koreans in a northern Chinese city, gaining a rare glimpse of that eventful year through North Korean eyes. They were all visiting China legally, having left North Korea within the past few months.

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The Two-Way
7:09 pm
Sun December 9, 2012

This Is The World's Most Expensive Whisky

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Glenfiddich's Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve. The last bottle goes up for auction on Tuesday.
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Brian Kinsman, Glenfiddich malt master, says the 55-year-old whisky isn't the oldest the company has ever bottled. That title goes to a cask of 1937 Glenfiddich, bottled in 2001. But the Roberts Reserve is a close second.
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Originally published on Wed December 19, 2012 7:48 pm

Update at 10 a.m. ET, Dec. 11. We Were Wrong:

Though Glenfiddich Malt Master Brian Kinsman told Weekend All Things Considered that he thought the $94,000 paid for a bottle of his company's Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve 55 Year Old whisky was a record, it appears he was mistaken.

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