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| TODAY: News, Art & Culture |
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Long-Time Obama Aide Named Senior Advisor
One key person helping President-elect Obama fill the top jobs in his administration will continue to work with him in the White House. Transition co-chair Valerie Jarrett has been named a senior White House advisor.
Obama's Cabinet Takes Shape
President-elect Obama announced his choices to lead the Commerce, Treasury and State Departments Friday. One of his picks returns a Clinton to the executive branch.
Journalists Marked For Death In Mexican Town
Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. In the border city of Juarez, journalists are continually targeted for reporting crime stories. Many news organizations are scaling back their coverage because of the danger.
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Arts & Culture
Artist Provides Booths For Prayer
They look just like telephone booths, but they are decorated with hands folded in prayer, and there's a place to kneel. The prayer booths are an art installation designed to spark dialogue on prayer in the public sphere. There are prayer booths in Jackson, Tennessee, in Ceder Rapids Iowa — and now on a bustling Manhattan street in New York City.
Tracking Jewish History Through Vinyl Albums
In a new book, authors Roger Bennett and Josh Kun detail American Jewish history through vinyl albums. They are trying to answer questions such as, "Who are we?" and "What are we inheriting?" in what Bennett calls the "beginning of a journey."
'Twilight' Madness At The Midnight Movie
Fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books lined up Thursday night to get an early look at the new big-screen adaptation — bringing with them lawn chairs, sleeping bags and cheerleader-style chants in honor of the story's heroes.
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Senate Candidates Saturate Oregon Airwaves
If you’ve turned on your TV lately, you can’t miss a slew of political ads. If you live in Oregon, the airwaves are saturated with an especially nasty slugfest. Democrat Jeff Merkley is trying to unseat Republican Gordon Smith in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the nation. Correspondent Chris Lehman has more.
Measure 59: Tax Fairness or Impending Disaster?
Supporters of Measure 59 on this year’s Oregon ballot say it will end a practice of double taxation. Opponents mock it as tax fairness ... for millionaires. Both sides agree it will mean the state will lose more than a billion dollars of revenue. Correspondent Chris Lehman reports.
Measure 54: School Project on the Ballot
Nearly every public high school student has to take a civics class to graduate. That’s where you learn how government works. Some students at a Portland high school put their new-found knowledge into action. The result is Measure 54 on this year’s Oregon ballot. Correspondent Chris Lehman explains.
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Jefferson Monthly
In Search of the
As we grapple with a gyrating economy, hear daily and dire news of planet Earth and immerse ourselves in a contentious election of the next president, it’s a time of radical ferment, sudden change and deeply held, often polarized opinions...
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Localism
Tuned In
November 2008
We all know that the world tends to operate cyclically — whether in weather patterns or popular fads...
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Climbing The Mountains
Tuned In
October 2008
I have long said that the Creator must not have been thinking about radio when the mountains that surround us were raised...
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 Today's stories on THE WORLD can be found on PRI's The World website
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360 explores art's creative influence and transformative power in everyday life.
Hosted by novelist and journalist Kurt Andersen, the series is a lively forum
for the arts and culture that challenges listeners' perceptions of the world.
Through richly textured stories and insightful conversation about everything
from opera to comic books, PRI's Studio 360 presents ideas that are provocative,
moving, and always engaging.
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