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Poetry
10:16 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Donald Hall: A Poet's View 'Out The Window'

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Donald Hall stands in the barn of the 200-year-old Wilmot farm that has been in his family for four generations. His latest poetry collection is called The Back Chamber.
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Originally published on Wed February 8, 2012 9:57 am

Poet Donald Hall spends much of his time in his blue armchair, looking at the landscape out his window. The 83-year-old former poet laureate has lived for years on the same New Hampshire farm that his grandparents used to own, and still writes in the room he slept in as a child.

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
10:15 am
Wed February 8, 2012

An Alien World Within Our Own

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The Lake Vostok drilling site in 2001.
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Lake Vostok is the largest of 145 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. It sits more than two miles beneath the continent's icy surface.
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By Marcelo Gleiser

Originally published on Wed February 8, 2012 9:23 am

Outer space is not the only frontier. There is also inner space, pockets of unexplored regions within our own Earth. Granted, they are becoming very scarce, at least those that are accessible by foot or by boat or by flying machine. Fortunately, there are still unexplored subsurface worlds, deep under the ocean, deep within caves, or deep under the ice. And what lurks within them may be the stuff of our wildest dreams.

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Election 2012
10:00 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Santorum Wins Big In Three Early Voting Contests

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GOP hopeful Rick Santorum carried wins in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, on Tuesday. The White House also tries to manage a controversy over requiring many Catholic institutions to provide free contraception in their employees' health coverage. Host Michel Martin covers these topics and other political news with a diverse panel of politicos.

Politics
10:00 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Is Komen's Image Beyond Repair?

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Originally published on Wed February 8, 2012 9:14 am

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, there's a new television program aimed at showcasing stories of missing people of color with the hope of getting the public to offer information to help solve these cases. And you might be wondering: Why is there a need for a show like this? So we've asked the people involved with it, including the famous actress from "Law and Order," S. Epatha Merkerson, to tell us more about it in a few minutes. That's coming up.

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The Two-Way
9:10 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Report: Data Show No 'Upsurge In Muslim-American Terrorism'

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January 2010: Muslim-Americans protest against terrorism outside a federal court building in Detroit, where "Christmas Day" bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being arraigned.
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There was a decline last year in the already "small" number of Muslim-Americans indicted for violent terrorist plots and the rate of radicalization among that group remains "far less than many feared" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a researcher at North Carolina's Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security reports today.

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