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10:58 am
Mon October 29, 2012

Listeners In Hurricane's Path Report On Sandy

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Originally published on Mon October 29, 2012 11:54 am

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The Two-Way
10:51 am
Mon October 29, 2012

Tracking Hurricane Sandy: Handy Maps And Apps

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Originally published on Mon October 29, 2012 11:35 am

Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the East Coast of the U.S., bringing sustained wind, heavy rain, and flooding that's forcing roads, bridges and mass transit systems to close from New York City to Washington. We're following the storm's progress and its impacts here on The Two-Way .

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It's All Politics
10:50 am
Mon October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Throws A Wrench Into Early Voting

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Early voters fill out ballots in Miami. Voting experts say Hurricane Sandy isn't likely to cause major disruptions — but that it would have been a far different matter had Florida taken a direct hit from the storm.
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Originally published on Mon October 29, 2012 12:57 pm

As Hurricane Sandy continues its slow progress toward the East Coast, thoughts of voting aren't uppermost in most people's minds. Nevertheless, state and local officials are scrambling to accommodate early voters as best they can.

Depending on how the storm ultimately plays out, Sandy isn't expected to have much effect on the outcome of the presidential race. Most of the states in its path are not considered competitive.

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The Two-Way
10:06 am
Mon October 29, 2012

PHOTO: Despite Sandy, Soldiers Stand Guard At Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier

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Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeps guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Hurricane Sandy at Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
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Soldiers of the 3rd Inf Reg. continue to stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, despite the worsening weather conditions surrounding Hurricane Sandy.
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Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), maintains his vigil during Hurricane Sandy while guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
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Originally published on Mon October 29, 2012 10:24 am

Update at 1:16 p.m. ET. Not Taken During Sandy:

The Old Guard reports on Twitter that the photograph we posted of soldiers standing guard over the the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was taken in September. It was not taken during Sandy, as the First Army Division East, said in its Facebook page.

Here is one taken today, according to the Old Guard:

Our Original Post Continues:

This is perhaps one of the more stunning pictures we've come across today:

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Political Junkie
9:41 am
Mon October 29, 2012

Republicans On Path To Retaining Control Of The House

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A bicyclist rides through the plaza on the east side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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McGovern was elected to the House in 1956, the Senate in 1962, and was the Dem prez nominee in 1972.
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Among the most vulnerable House incumbents are Jim Matheson (D-Utah), Charlie Bass (R-N.H.), John Tierney (D-Mass.) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.).
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Originally published on Sun November 4, 2012 9:34 am

The 2010 elections, in which Republicans had a net gain of 63 seats in the House, was one for the record books. It was the most impressive showing by the GOP since 1938, when their net House pick up was 80 seats, and the best showing by any party in the House since 1948, when the Democrats added 75 seats. The sweep of two years ago more than wiped out the gains made by the Democrats in the House of 2006 (31 seats) and 2008 (20 more).

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Music
9:36 am
Mon October 29, 2012

The Fresh Air Interview: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

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Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 6:53 pm

This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 24, 2010.

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Shots - Health News
9:29 am
Mon October 29, 2012

Take A Listen To The Shots Podcast

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In Washington's Columbia Heights neighborhood, Claire Robertson, a grad student, talks with Scott Hensley about retail health clinics.
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Originally published on Fri November 2, 2012 2:34 pm

  • Listen to the Podcast

We're always looking for new angles on health news. And now we're trying a new angle on Shots: a podcast.

This is an experiment, so I should ask for your informed consent. Are you prepared for some unorthodox audio from an ink-stained wretch still working on the transition to online journalism from print? If so, click away.

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The Two-Way
9:01 am
Mon October 29, 2012

The Science Of Why Sandy Is Such A Dangerous Storm

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A Dare County utility worker checks on conditions along a flooded Ride Lane in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 8:33 am

Here are a few reasons government forecasters at the National Hurricane Center and emergency management officials are so concerned about Sandy:

1. Sandy is one of the largest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. Sandy's winds cover an area of more than 1,000 miles in diameter. That's enormous by hurricane standards. So instead of affecting an area a couple of hundred miles across, Sandy will cut a huge swath. That means many millions of people are probably going to be exposed to high winds, heavy rains, and, for those on the coast, powerful storm surge.

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China: Change Or Crisis
8:34 am
Mon October 29, 2012

China's New Leaders Inherit Country At A Crossroads

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"The Defense of Yan'an" re-enacts a 1947 battle to protect Mao Zedong's Communist stronghold during the Chinese Civil War from the Nationalists, who fled to Taiwan.
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A new attraction at Yan'an is a blockbuster stage show called "Nursery School of the Red Capital." It tells the story of an orphanage the Communist Party set up in Yan'an, and it cost $5.5 million to produce.
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Tourists can dress up and take part in "The Defense of Yan'an," a re-enactment of a 1947 Chinese Civil War battle to protect the revolutionary base from the Nationalists, who fled to Taiwan.
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Other tourists wear the mustard-colored uniforms of the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Communists' opponents in the country's civil war.
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Traditional Shaanxi folk dances also lighten the mood during "The Defense of Yan'an," which ends with a rendition of "Socialism is Good" that the audience joins.
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"The Defense of Yan'an" is a whizbang performance that includes lots of fighting, an antique tank and a plane zooming down a zip wire.
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When a Chairman Mao lookalike appears (on left), the crowd of tourists applauds loudly.
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The former revolutionary stronghold of China's Mao Zedong has become a tourist spot exalting the communist cause. This "Red Army" is actually a team of top Chinese salespeople from Amway, the U.S.-based direct sales company. They have earned a three-day trip to Yan'an, the "Revolutionary Holy Land," as a reward for hitting sales targets.
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A statue of Mao — who spent 13 years in Yan'an building up support for the communist revolution — stands in front of the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which cost $80 million to build and opened in 2009.
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At the Yan'an Revolutionary Museum's huge gift shop, a bevy of Mao statues await the party faithful. Tourist numbers in Yan'an have tripled in five years, exceeding 20 million in 2011.
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A tourist with a passing resemblance to Chairman Mao put another visitor in a stress position known as the "airplane," which was often used on "class enemies" during the mass upheaval of China's Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976.
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A tourist models communist chic.
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As a tribute to Mao, enthusiastic tourists have thrown cigarettes onto the bed in his former cave dwelling.
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Guo Haiyun, 46, and his wife in their cave home, not far from the revolutionary stronghold of Yan'an. He says he probably only has two or three yuan in cash at home, while he has taken out bank debts he can't return to pay for his daughter's university education.
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He Fang, 90, is a former revolutionary who wonders where the Communist Party went wrong. "Our purpose was to achieve freedom and democracy," he says. "But now there is neither freedom nor democracy."
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Guo limps across the yard of his cave home, which has no running water. He says he is a big supporter of the Communist Party, but admits he envies city folk, who "live and eat and do everything better than us" country folk.
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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 7:53 am

China is about to get new leaders for the first time in a decade, and it comes at a sensitive moment for the world's most populous nation. Economic growth, which surged for decades, has slowed. Demands for political reform have increased and the Communist Party has been hit by scandal. In a series of stories this week, NPR is examining the multiple challenges facing China. In our first story, Louisa Lim looks at how the Chinese view the Communist Party in the place where it took shape.

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China: Change Or Crisis
8:31 am
Mon October 29, 2012

At 79, Ex-Party Official Lambastes Chinese Leaders

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Once a top Communist Party figure, 79-year-old Bao Tong was kicked out after he sympathized with the student protesters in 1989.
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The frail 79-year-old in a pale brown shirt with close-cropped hair sitting at a fast-food restaurant table looks absolutely unremarkable. But Bao Tong has a lightness in his eyes, a confidence that speaks of a man whose conscience is clear, a man with nothing to fear.

"I have become my own person," he says. "When I was a Communist Party member, I had to follow party discipline. When they threw me out of the party, my brain was set free."

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