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'Not Fighting For Just Sarah': Rating Transplant Priorities
Sarah Murnaghan's family took up a legal fight to push the 10-year-old higher on the adult organ waitlist. In addition to trying to secure new lungs, mother Janet Murnaghan says the system needs to change.
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Three-Minute Fiction Reading: 'Beyond The Fence'
NPR's Bob Mondello reads an excerpt of one of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. He reads Beyond the Fence by Matthew Campbell of Salem, Mass.
Actors John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's The Quiet Man....
The Movie Nick Offerman Has 'Seen A Million Times'
Actor Nick Offerman could watch the John Wayne film The Quiet Man a million times. "It was my dad's favorite and it quickly became mine," he says.
Signs Point To Destructive Wildfire Season Ahead
Guest host Tess Vigeland talks with NPR's Kirk Siegler about the early wildfire season this year in the west and whether or not a new fleet of air tankers promised to the forest service will be ready in time for the worst of the season.
Week In News: Spying Suspicions Come To Light
Revelations this week that the National Security Agency has been running an extensive domestic surveillance program involving companies like Google, Facebook and Apple has caused many Americans to ask what's left of their privacy. Guest host Tess Vigeland speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
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Aquarium Sculptors Create Coral For Conservation Awareness
Colorful, fake coral gives aquarium visitors an eco-friendly glimpse inside a reef. At the National Aquarium in Baltimore, a new reef exhibit presents an artistic challenge to the coral fabrication team.