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Colorado Springs Learns To Live With Fire
For the second year in a row, Colorado Springs has been beset by wildfire. As NPR's Kirk Siegler reports, the city and its emergency response crews are doing their best to take the threat in stride.
Lebanon Feels The Pain Of Syrian War Spillover
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Michael Young, the opinion page editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, about the spillover of Syria's conflict into Lebanon.
Will America Need Boots On The Ground In Syria?
Middle East analyst Andrew Tabler talks to Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin about the U.S.'s decision this week to arm the Syrian rebels.
Economy Was Key In Iranian Election
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to learn more about new Iran's president-elect, cleric Hassan Rouhani.
Men pass through a busy market of Saidpur village in Islamabad, where the lo...
Pakistani Photographers Take A Personal Picture Of Home
Last year, National Geographic offered a photo camp for emerging Pakistani photographers to explore the tribal areas of their country.
Terence Blanchard is one of today's foremost jazz composers....
Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera Hero
The jazz composer's latest project is an opera based on the life of Emile Griffith, a gay boxer who became a world champion in the 1960s — at a price.