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5:17 am
Sat October 13, 2012

Candidates Return To The Trail After VP Debate

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Originally published on Sat October 13, 2012 9:15 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. It's a time-honored tradition in presidential campaigns to debate after the debate. Both sides are still squabbling now over who won this week's vice presidential faceoff. And on the campaign trail yesterday, the running mates themselves were out spinning for their side. NPR's Ari Shapiro has this round-up of the day on the trail.

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Middle East
5:17 am
Sat October 13, 2012

Border Incidents Ratchet Up Turkey-Syria Tensions

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Originally published on Sat October 13, 2012 9:15 am

Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Kelly McEvers about the latest news in Turkey and Syria, where fighting from Syria's internal conflict has spilled across the border the two nations share.

Author Interviews
1:03 am
Sat October 13, 2012

Michael Feinstein: What I Learned From The Gershwins

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Composer and educator Michael Feinstein's new memoir is called The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.
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Michael Feinstein is an award-winning musician. He serves as the artistic director of the Palladium Center for the Performing Arts.
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Originally published on Sat October 13, 2012 10:38 am

Michael Feinstein, the singer and pianist known as the "ambassador of the Great American Songbook," has a serious pedigree to back up that title: a real-life connection to one of America's greatest songwriting teams. It's the subject of Feinstein's new memoir, The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs. (A CD of Feinstein singing those songs also comes with the book.)

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Shots - Health Blog
5:57 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Vice Presidential Candidates Spar Over Medicare

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Vice President Biden (left) and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan during Thursday's debate.
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It's hardly surprising that Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., would feature a spirited debate about Medicare. GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is the author of a controversial Medicare proposal that Democrats have been campaigning against for more than a year now.

But fact checkers have raised some flags about some of the claims the candidates made.

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Space
5:08 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

For Sale: A Chunk Of Mars

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A fragment of the meteor that crashed into Tissint, Morocco.
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Here, Kitty, Kitty! This meteorite may look like the silhouette of an angry feline. It's actually a slice of the Willamette meteorite, which crashed into North America millennia ago. A miner found it in Oregon in 1902. Estimated price: $85,000-$110,000.
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Touch Stardust: A slice of the Allende meteorite that fell in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1969. It contains white calcium-aluminum inclusions, material present at the birth of our solar system.
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Own A Piece Of Mars: A fragment of the meteor that crashed into Tissint, Morocco, in July 2011. This piece is one of many meteorites up for auction in Manhattan on Sunday. Estimated price: $230,000-$260,000.
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Meteor Masquerade: Another fragment of the Gibeon meteorite, which crashed into Namibia in prehistoric times. Namibian tribesmen discovered this specimen, known as the Gibeon Mask, in 1992. Estimated price: $140,000-$180,000.
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The Scream? Meteorites can take oddly familiar shapes. This one has echoes of Edvard Munch's famous painting. The Gibeon meteorite chunk was found in Namibia. Estimated price: $175,000-$225,000.
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Good Enough To Eat? No, it's not nougat (though it does look a bit like the honey, sugar, egg white and nut confection). Those are olivine and peridot crystals suspended in a piece of the Fukang meteorite found in China's Gobi Desert. Estimated price: $100,000-$120,000.
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Originally published on Tue October 23, 2012 1:31 pm

Few things are as rare as a piece of rock that falls from outer space and crashes onto Earth.

Among the most prized of these meteorites are from Mars. Friday, scientists describe the latest one discovered: It's called Tissint, and this weekend you can buy a piece of it.

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