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Maestro Maazel On Life After N.Y. Philharmonic
Published: 2009-07-03 00:07:54After conducting the world's most famous orchestra for seven years, Lorin Maazel gave his last performance June 27. Now, at 79, Maazel has launched a two-week festival on a Virginia farm, and he also intends to teach aspiring conductors. Maazel tells NPR what it takes to be a successful conductor.
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Young Doctors Weigh In On Health Care
Published: 2009-07-02 14:00:42Two young doctors, just finishing up their residencies, discuss the decisions behind their career choices. Nicole Loeding is going into primary care, while Brian Southern, after becoming disillusioned with primary care, has chosen pulmonary critical care.
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Doctors Say Costs, Not Care, Have Become Focus
Published: 2009-07-01 00:03:11As health care costs have soared, many physicians have struggled to manage the business end of health care and provide quality care for their patients. Two doctors, each with more than 30 years of experience, talk with NPR about the changes they've seen in health care, and where the system might be headed.
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High Court Rules For White Firefighters
Published: 2009-06-30 00:05:54The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the New Haven, Conn., fire department violated the law when it dumped the results of a firefighters promotion exam. Most of the applicants who placed high enough to qualify for promotions were white.
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Poetry From Iran, One Tweet At A Time
Published: 2009-06-29 00:03:39Persians are known for their poetry. So it is not surprising that following Iran's disputed elections, many Iranians have tweeted poetically. Meet 26-year-old Parham Baghestani, whose tweets range from the mundane to the spiritual.
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On The Appalachian, Some Hike Off The Recession
Published: 2009-06-28 00:03:11Whether recently laid off or just without any job prospects, some people have traded their resumes and interview suits for sleeping bags and hiking boots. They're on the Appalachian Trail for the next four months — and they hope that by the time they're off, the economy will have recovered.
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In Jackson's Birthplace, Shock At Icon's Death
Published: 2009-06-27 00:07:05The last few decades have not been easy on the city of Gary, Ind., just outside of Chicago. Crime and high unemployment plague the manufacturing city of less than 100-thousand. But even through the difficult times, Gary residents remained proud to live in the hometown of superstar Michael Jackson.
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Taxing Imports, One At A Time
Published: 2009-06-26 00:06:11Every time a car or a T-shirt or an apple comes into the U.S., it's taxed. But determining how much is quite complicated. Import specialists, like Bret Ewing in Seattle, use an old, enormous book to figure it out.
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One Question To Obama, One Heck Of A Backlash
Published: 2009-06-25 00:08:22When President Obama called on Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney during Tuesday's news conference, he set off criticism from mainstream news organizations. There have been charges that the question was a plant or, at the least, a departure from protocol.
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Conservatives Have 'Originalism'; Liberals Have ... ?
Published: 2009-06-24 00:01:17Conservative Supreme Court nominees espouse originalism, the theory that the Constitution's meaning remains static. With Sotomayor's nomination, liberals are looking for a way to sell their own view that interpretation must reflect the changing norms of society.
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