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05/20/2012 04:49 PM
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Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 8 Winner Is...
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The end of Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest has finally arrived. We've read through more than 6,000 stories, and now our judge for this round, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea, has picked his favorite.
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05/20/2012 04:13 PM
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A Windborne Clue To A Mysterious Childhood Disease
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Not a lot is known about Kawasaki disease. It affects children under 4 and is more common in Asia, particularly Japan, but more than 4,000 American children contract it every year. One of its secrets may now be revealed, but it took climate researchers to help spot it.
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05/20/2012 02:00 PM
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Examining NATO's Past, Present And Future
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Sunday is the first day of the NATO summit in Chicago. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder about the Alliance's future, and with Vijay Prashad, a professor of international studies at Trinity College, who argues NATO is bad for the world. We also hear reports on the kickoff of the summit from NPR's Jacki Northam and on the protests from Cheryl Corley.
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05/20/2012 02:00 PM
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Perjury Trial For Roger Clemens Heats Up
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More trouble for the prosecution in the perjury trial of baseball star pitcher Roger Clemens. He is charged with lying to Congress when he said he had never used performance-enhancing drugs. But under cross examination, the key witness has himself admitted to lying and the key evidence has been called into question. NPR's Nina Totenberg explains all to weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
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05/20/2012 02:00 PM
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Vets Return With Brain Injuries Oft Seen In Football
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is best-known for affecting football players; repeated bangs to the head can hurt the parts of the brain that direct impulse, memory and emotion. Now, scientists are finding evidence of CTE in the brains of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Bob Stern from Boston University School of Medicine talks to weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
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05/20/2012 01:59 PM
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Adam Lambert: 'I Want To Sing It Big'
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An American Idol runner-up and its first openly gay contender, Lambert has transitioned neatly into the role of a pop star.
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05/18/2012 05:22 PM
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In This Russian Trial, The Defendant Is A Dead Man
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Sergei Magnitsky was a tax lawyer for an investment fund in Russia that was seized by tax police who extracted more than $230 million in illegal refunds for themselves. Magnitsky decided to investigate, was arrested and later died in prison. Now, the government is bringing him to trial "to protect themselves," human rights groups say.
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05/19/2012 05:13 PM
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Could Glass-Steagall Have Stopped JPMorgan Loss?
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The banking giant's $2 billion loss has many lawmakers and economists wondering what happened to the 2010 financial overhaul, which was supposed to prevent risky hedging. Many are also looking back further — to a Depression-era law, repealed in 1999, that separated commercial and investment bank activities.
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05/19/2012 02:17 PM
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John Mayer: Restoring An Image, And An Instrument
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Two years after a media controversy that sent him retreating from the spotlight, Mayer has a new album and is beginning to resurface. But a new obstacle has arisen in the meantime — a health condition that may keep him from performing for months to come.
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05/19/2012 02:00 PM
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Dissident Leaves China For U.S.
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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his family are due to arrive in Newark this evening after a surprise early-morning flight from Beijing. Host Guy Raz gets the latest from NPR's Michele Kelemen, who's been following the story.
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05/19/2012 02:00 PM
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Obama Hosts World Leaders At G8 Summit
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NPR's Scott Horsley talks about what some are terming the "diplopaloozaa" this weekend, when President Obama hosts the G8 conference at Camp David on Saturday and the next day plays host to two dozen NATO heads of state in Chicago.
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05/19/2012 09:54 AM
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The Movie Dustin Lance Black's 'Seen A Million Times'
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The director of Milk and the new film Virginia says he can't get enough of Rob Reiner's rom-com When Harry Met Sally. It speaks to "such basic truths about matchmaking and love," Black says, "that I think it's withstood the test of time."
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05/17/2012 03:46 PM
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China's New Plan: A Great Leap Into The Air
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China's newest five-year plan aims to make the country an aerospace powerhouse — and indirectly, a more modern, prosperous, sophisticated industrial nation. The plan would help Chinese companies expand outside national borders and grab a chunk of the aerospace market — but will it succeed?
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05/18/2012 05:34 PM
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Baritone Fischer-Diskau Was One Of Opera's Greatest
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German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died — he was 86. Fischer-Dieskau began performing in the 1940s and had a career spanning five decades. He was perhaps best known for his interpretation of Franz Schubert's "Winterreise."
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05/18/2012 04:59 PM
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Let The Real Space Age Begin
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Astrophysicist Adam Frank says that private rocket ships will launch a sure future for Americans.
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