5:23pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Sasquatch Music Festival 2011

Sasquatch 2011: Gold Panda, Live In Concert

Credit Brittney Bush Bollay for KEXP

Language Advisory: This is a live concert recording, and may not contain language suitable for all audiences.

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5:22pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Monkey See

DVD Picks: 'Stanley Kubrick: The Essential Collection'

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It's time for our home video feature. Bob Mondello spent much of his Memorial Day weekend holed up with a new 10-dvd set: Stanley Kubrick: the Essential Collection.

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5:22pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Space

NASA Says A Final Good-Bye To Plucky Mars Rover

NASA has pulled the plug on one of its two Mars rovers. Spirit hasn't been heard from in more than a year, and now the space agency says it's abandoning hope that it will hear from the rover again.

Any disappointment that Spirit's mission has come to an end has to be tempered by the fantastic success of the robotic explorer. Intended to last 90 days, Spirit operated in Gusev Crater on Mars for more than six Earth years.

Indeed, just landing safely on Mars has to be considered a success, since the red planet has a way of devouring space missions.

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5:07pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Life in Berlin

Berlin Carnival of Cultures has Ethnic City Flare

Stefanie Schatte belongs to the team that organizes the Carnival of Cultures. For the past 15 years, Berliners from all walks of life and different ethnic backgrounds take part in the Carnival.

50 decorated floats participated in the first street parade through Kreuzberg. The public was thrilled and the Carnival of Cultures became an annual highlight. The idea to celebrate Berlin's cultural richness on the streets of the city originated in the mid 90's, says Schatte:

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5:06pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Latin America

Chile Investigates Ex-President's Cause Of Death

Authorities in Chile have exhumed the remains of Salvador Allende to discover whether the former president committed suicide — or was shot dead by others in a 1973 coup. Annie Murphy has the story.

5:06pm

Tue May 31, 2011
The Two-Way

English Football Association Asks To Postpone Election Of FIFA President

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The English Football Association and the Scottish FA called on FIFA to postpone a vote for president scheduled for tomorrow.

If you haven't been keeping up, recently FIFA has been hit by a barrage of ethics scandals. By its count, Major League Soccer Talk reports that 10 of the 32 members of the sport's governing body are under investigation.

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5:02pm

Tue May 31, 2011
It's All Politics

Democrats Told To Vote 'No' On Debt-Ceiling Boost

Politics is not only the art of the possible; it's the art of setting traps for your opponents.

Which is why House Democrats are being told by one of their leaders to vote against the very thing many of them said they wanted.

For weeks, a number of Democrats have called for a "clean" vote on raising the $14.3 trillion debt-ceiling, a vote on legislation containing no controversial spending cuts.

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4:54pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Shots - Health Blog

Administration Easing Requirements For Health Insurance Pools

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There's an old adage in the insurance business: Policies aren't bought; they're sold.

It took top federal officials a year to figure that out, but the Obama administration now says agents could indeed help them sell their flagging high-risk insurance plans to people with pre-existing medical conditions. The plans were a widely touted part of the new health law when it passed, but administration officials were under pressure to act with enrollment sluggish.

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4:46pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Monkey See

Celebrity Books And The Rise Of The Boldfaced Bestseller

This past week on the New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction, nine out of 16 titles were "celebrity books" — quickie memoirs, humorous essays, and life lessons dished out by the rich and famous for readers to chew on. Memoirs from Steven Tyler, Dick Van Dyke and Rob Lowe are selling like mad; Shania Twain and Ashley Judd are holding strong.

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4:38pm

Tue May 31, 2011
Planet Money

The Tuesday Podcast: Fareed Zakaria's Post-American World

Originally published on Thu June 7, 2012 4:22 pm

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For hundreds of years, Europe and the U.S. had what Fareed Zakaria calls "the secret sauce" — a powerful combination of capitalism, the rule of law, individual rights, science, technology and education.

Today, the secret sauce has spread around the world. And it's driving rapid economic growth in scores of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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