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Since its debut in 1971, this afternoon radio newsmagazine has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Heard by almost 13 million* people on nearly 700 radio stations each week, All Things Considered is one of the most popular programs in America. Every weekday, hosts Melissa Block , Robert Siegel, and Audie Cornish present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special- sometimes quirky- features. Guy Raz hosts a one-hour edition of the program on Saturday and Sunday.

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Remembrances

12:12 pm

Tue July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith: A TV Icon From Mayberry To 'Matlock'

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In the drama Matlock, Kene Holliday (top left), Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Griffith and Kari Lizer played a criminal defense team that often came out on top.

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In 2005, President George W. Bush honored Griffith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "demonstrating the finest qualities of our country."

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Griffith attends the 2003 unveiling of a bronze statue of the characters Andy and Opie from his hit TV series The Andy Griffith Show in Raleigh, N.C.

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Actor Andy Griffith was best known for his role as the gentle, small-town sheriff of Mayberry on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He died Tuesday at 86.

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Griffith on the set of the 1958 film No Time for Sergeants. Griffith starred in the live television, Broadway and film adaptations of Mac Hyman's 1954 novel.

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Griffith and Juliet Prowse pose on the set of The Second Time Around, a 1961 Western comedy starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who moves from New York to Arizona.

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Ron Howard played Griffith's son, Opie. "They always have the kids in situation comedies be brats," he said, but the Andy-Opie relationship was different.

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Don Knotts played bumbling Deputy Barney Fife to Griffith's Sheriff Andy Taylor on the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.

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Griffith's marriage to Barbara Edwards (left) ended in 1972. He married Cindi Knight in 1983, and they settled in his home state of North Carolina.

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Actor Andy Griffith died Tuesday at 86. He sits in uniform, as Sheriff Andy Taylor, on the set of his television series The Andy Griffith Show in 1967.

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Born in North Carolina, actor and comedian Andy Griffith was known for playing the wise, gentle Southern patriarch, both in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and the 1980s-'90s legal drama Matlock.

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 6:06 pm

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In a career that spanned half a century, actor and comedian Andy Griffith starred in five different television series, made more than 30 movies and even recorded a Grammy Award-winning gospel album. He died Tuesday morning in North Carolina at the age of 86.

Movie Reviews

11:07 am

Tue July 3, 2012

A Lanky Teenager On The Path To (Super) Power

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Andrew Garfield stars in The Amazing Spider-Man, in which the nerdy, web-slinging superhero gets an overhauled origin story.

By Bob Mondello

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 6:06 pm

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I know you're skeptical. Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man was last slinging webs just five years ago. Broadway's Spider-Man started singing about webs less than two years ago. Now here comes another Spider-dude: This Andrew Garfield guy. So he'd better be really something, right? Well, as it happens, he is.

Planet Money

4:51 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

Scandal That Cost Barclays Chairman His Job Threatens To Spread

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London-based Barclays Bank agreed to pay a $453 million fine over charges it manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate — LIBOR — a key global interest rate.

By Adam Davidson

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 11:24 am

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Every day at 11 a.m., a few big banks tell the British Bankers' Association what it costs them to borrow. Out of that comes LIBOR — the London Interbank Offered Rate, a dull but vital interest rate that underpins trillions of dollars of transactions globally, from home mortgages and personal credit cards to major corporate lending.

Election 2012

4:29 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

Obama's 'Clean Coal' Fighting Words To W.Va. Dems

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Keith Judd, federal prisoner and — in West Virginia — a Democratic presidential candidate.

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A sign outside the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in Williamson, W.Va., welcomes visitors to "Hatfield McCoy Country," referring to a legendary family feud that played out in the Appalachians.

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The Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in Williamson, W.Va., is also home to The Coal House, built entirely of coal in 1933.

By Noah Adams

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 10:34 am

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Mingo County, deep in the southwest corner of West Virginia, has sent a "protest vote" to the attention of President Obama. In the May 8 Democratic primary, voters chose a man named Keith Judd to run for president. He got 61 percent of the vote.

Judd won't be available. He's serving a 17-year sentence for extortion. From prison in Texas, he managed to file the papers, pay the fee and get on the West Virginia ballot.

Africa

4:00 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

With Problems Egypt, Will Morsi Play Role In Region

By Peter Kenyon

Originally published on Sun July 8, 2012 7:31 am

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The election of Egypt's first Islamist president could alter alliances across the Mideast. Diplomats and analysts are trying to figure out how Egypt's relations with Iran, Israel and other countries may change now that a member of the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood will be leading the country.

From Cairo, NPR's Peter Kenyon has our story.

NPR Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century

3:33 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

Filling In New Orleans' Future, One Blank At A Time

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Candy Chang, co-founder of the website Neighborland, writes on an art installation in New Orleans in April. As part of a public street art project that later became Neighborland, Chang put nametag-like stickers on empty New Orleans storefronts for residents to write ideas for improving the city.

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Jasmine Fournier stands by a window in her home on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. Fournier proposed extending a streetcar line to the city's downtown on Neighborland.

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Festival-goers at the Jammin' on Julia street fair in New Orleans interact with Neighborland's art installation on the side of an empty building in the city's arts district in April.

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After Hurricane Katrina, local produce vendor Mr. Okra became the only source of fresh produce in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood. Residents have posted calls for a local grocery story on Neighborland.

By Debbie Elliott

Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 8:19 pm

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New Orleans became a blank slate after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. And ever since, entrepreneurs have rushed in to experiment with new ideas for building and running a city.

Among them is a startup called Neighborland.com, a social media tool for sharing ideas to make your neighborhood better. After signing in to Neighborland, you can find your neighborhood and post your idea. The posts all start with "I want," and you fill in the rest.

Digital Life

3:33 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

Tech Week Ahead: Another Nail In Kodak's Coffin

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Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 5:35 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

And I'm Melissa Block and it's time now for All Tech Considered.

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BLOCK: In this week's Look Ahead with NPR's Laura Sydell, another nail in the coffin for Kodak.

LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: You know, I feel like you should bring on the violins for that one.

BLOCK: Cue the sad music.

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SYDELL: Today begins this very sad process. It's really the end of an era.

Afghanistan

2:12 pm

Mon July 2, 2012

Lack Of Electricity Dims Afghan Economic Prospects

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Afghanistan produces about half the power it currently uses and imports the other half from neighboring countries. But that total still doesn't meet the country's demands. This photo shows Kabul at night in January.

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Only about one-third of Afghans have access to a reliable power supply.

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The Omid Plastic Making Factory in Kabul manufactures plastic bags. Even though the industrial park where it's located was supposed to guarantee full power, the factory often relies on a generator. "There is no industrial power for us. We are using the same power as normal people," says factory manager Abdul Qadida Sozai.

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This welding shop in Kabul relies on a generator because the city power supply isn't reliable or powerful enough for the equipment.

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Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 4:38 pm

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Afghanistan desperately needs to jump-start its economy if it hopes to stand on its own after NATO's drawdown in 2014. But there's a major constraint for a country trying to build a modern economy: electricity shortages.

Afghanistan ranks among the countries with the lowest electricity production per capita in the world. Despite billions of dollars in projects over the past decade, at best one-third of the population has access to regular power.

The Two-Way

8:34 am

Mon July 2, 2012

Word Of The Day: 'Derecho'

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Where you're most likely to be in the path of a derecho, and how often.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 5:35 pm

We learned a new word on Saturday, thanks to Korva's post about the devastating storm that has left millions without power from Ohio east through the mid-Atlantic states:

Derecho.

Business

4:05 pm

Sun July 1, 2012

Funeral Industry Laws Face A Changing Marketplace

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Deacon Mark Coudrain, bottom left, Rev. Charles Benoit, top left, Abbot Justin Brown, top right, and attorney Evans Schmidt carry a casket built by Benedictine monks down the steps of the U.S. federal district courthouse on Aug. 12, 2010.

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Benedictine Brother Brian Harrington (left) and novice Dustin Bernard pull a casket handle from a press in a workshop at St. Joseph Abbey in Covington, La.

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Originally published on Sun July 1, 2012 4:53 pm

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Monks set up St. Joseph Abbey in Louisiana more than 100 years ago. They've been there so long, they have 1,100 acres and their own town, St. Benedict.

For all those years, when one of the brothers died, the monks would painstakingly craft a flawless pine casket in their woodwork shop.

Over the years, many clergy members and high-ranking church officials would request the the beautiful caskets. Soon, members of the public wanted see if they might be able to buy one.

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