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8:52 pm
Sun July 15, 2012

Thriving Gut Bacteria Linked To Good Health

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Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is important for gut health, especially in aging adults.
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Bacteroides species are some of the most common bacteria in the human gut.
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Originally published on Tue July 17, 2012 10:19 am

There's no magic elixir for healthy aging, but here's one more thing to add to the list: good gut health.

A study published in the latest issue of Nature finds diet may be key to promoting diverse communities of beneficial bacteria in the guts of older people.

To evaluate this, researchers analyzed the microbiota, or gut bacteria, of 178 older folks, mostly in their 70s and 80s.

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Environment
5:37 pm
Sun July 15, 2012

From Coal To Gas: The Potential Risks And Rewards

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Originally published on Mon July 16, 2012 8:58 am

This past week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report linking climate change to some of the extreme weather events of 2011, like the devastating drought in Texas and record high temperatures in Britain.

None of this bodes well for the future, but there is a glimmer of hope. It turns out that U.S. carbon emissions are down nearly 8 percent since 2006.

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News
5:35 pm
Sun July 15, 2012

Who Killed Jean McConville? A Battle For IRA Secrets

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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, right, carries the coffin of senior IRA commander Brendan Hughes, in West Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Irish Republican Army murals still loom over streets in West Belfast, where Jean McConville lived until she disappeared in 1972.
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Jean McConville's daughter Helen McHendry waits with her husband Seamus as Irish police search for her mother's remains in 1999.
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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 11:15 pm

A legal showdown is evolving. It affects an American university, the British government, a brutal Irish paramilitary organization and the murdered mother of 10 children.

Journalist Ed Moloney is fighting to keep secret interviews with former paramilitary members of the Irish Republican Army out of the British government's hands. Those interviews are kept under lock and key at Boston College as part of an oral history project that Moloney started in 2001.

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Jeff Lunden is a freelance arts reporter and producer whose stories have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on other public radio programs.

Lunden contributed several segments to the Peabody Award-winning series The NPR 100, and was producer of the NPR Music series Discoveries at Walt Disney Concert Hall, hosted by Renee Montagne. He has produced more than a dozen documentaries on musical theater and Tin Pan Alley for NPR — most recently A Place for Us: Fifty Years of West Side Story.

Other documentaries have profiled George and Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen and Jule Styne. Lunden has won several awards, including the Gold Medal from the New York Festival International Radio Broadcasting Awards and a CPB Award.

Lunden is also a theater composer. He wrote the score for the musical adaptation of Arthur Kopit's Wings (book and lyrics by Arthur Perlman), which won the 1994 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Other works include Another Midsummer Night, Once on a Summer's Day and adaptations of The Little Prince and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for Theatreworks/USA.

Lunden is currently working with Perlman on an adaptation of Swift as Desire, a novel of magic realism from Like Water for Chocolate author Laura Esquivel. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Remembrances
1:47 pm
Sun July 15, 2012

'Oklahoma!' Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95

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Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm was best known for roles in Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve and Oklahoma!
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In 1960, Holm starred with Jane Fonda and James MacArther in Invitation To A March.
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Holm won the Academy Award in 1947 for best supporting actress for her performance in Gentlemen's Agreement.
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Holm played Bette Davis' best friend in the 1950 movie, All About Eve.
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Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm was best known for roles in Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve and Oklahoma!
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Holm was also known for her work in charity and the arts, but late in life her years were marked by a bitter, multi-year legal family battle that pitted her two sons against her and her fifth husband.
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Her Broadway breakout role was Ado Annie (holding the hat) in the 1943 musical Oklahoma!
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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 6:10 pm

Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm has died. A star on both stage and screen, Holm was best known for roles in Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve and Oklahoma! She was 95.

Holm died early Sunday morning in her Manhattan apartment with her husband, family and close friends by her side. She had been hospitalized a couple weeks ago following a fire in actor Robert De Niro's apartment in the same building.

If there was one role that put Holm on the map, it was as the coquettish Ado Annie, in the 1943 hit musical, Oklahoma!

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The Two-Way
12:24 pm
Sun July 15, 2012

Red Cross Declares Civil War In Syria

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UN observers inspect a bombed-out school in the Syrian village of Tremsah, where as many as 200 people may have been killed after an armed conflict erupted last week.
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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 4:43 pm

The conflict in Syria has now reached the level of civil war, the Red Cross announced Sunday.

The declaration means international humanitarian law now applies throughout the country, and is the responsibility of all parties, whether rebel or government.

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The Two-Way
10:34 am
Sun July 15, 2012

Disastrous Flood Response Ignites Russian Rage Online

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An Emergency Ministry soldier helps to repair religious icons in a church hit by flood water in the town of Nizhnebakansky, about 750 miles south of Moscow, on Tuesday.
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Originally published on Wed July 18, 2012 12:54 pm

Russians are slowly beginning to recover from the devastating flooding that soaked the southwestern region of Krasnodar. The floods, which struck in the early morning hours on July 7, reportedly killed more than 150 people.

It wasn't long before outrage flowed. Masha Lipman, a researcher with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Moscow, says the government had advance notice of the disaster, but didn't pass along the message.

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Asia
7:22 am
Sun July 15, 2012

Slowed Growth Reflects China's Uphill Battle

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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 11:11 am

No country has enjoyed more spectacular growth in recent decades than China. But the economy that will one day replace America's as the world's largest also faces a lot of challenges. Guest host David Greene talks to NPR's Frank Langfitt, who was a reporter in China in the '90s and returned to Shanghai for NPR last year.

Middle East
7:22 am
Sun July 15, 2012

In Egypt, Clinton Promotes Dialogue With Military

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Originally published on Sun July 22, 2012 9:41 am

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm David Greene.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads for Israel today. This, after leaving Egypt where she met with that country's new Islamist president and also the head of the powerful military council. Secretary Clinton said Egypt needs to continue its transition to a civilian-led democracy. But that message was delivered gently, a sign that Washington sees a long and uncertain transition ahead.

NPR's Peter Kenyon has more from Cairo.

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Sports
7:22 am
Sun July 15, 2012

Unusual Outliers In Baseball

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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 11:11 am

Guest host David Greene talks with NPR's Mike Pesca about his take on the baseball news of the week.

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