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Three-Minute Fiction
5:49 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 10 Winner Is ...

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Lisa Rubenson of Charlotte, N.C., wrote our Round 10 winning story, "Sorry for Your Loss."
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By NPR Staff

Originally published on Sun March 10, 2013 5:26 am

Did you leave a message after our prompt? For Round 10 of Three-Minute Fiction, we asked you to submit a short story in the form of a voice mail message. For this contest, the original fiction must be read in about three minutes, no more than 600 words.

After four weeks and more than 4,000 stories, we have a winner.

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Latin America
5:04 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

What Will Be Hugo Chavez's Legacy?

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JACKI LYDEN, HOST:

It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.

Coming up, remember that meteor shower in Siberia? Well, scientists are working to keep you safe from asteroids. And feeling the rhythm and the rapture - the deaf feel a symphony orchestra. But first...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Foreign language spoken)

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Science
4:11 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

Scientists Make Plans To Blast Threatening Asteroids

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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 6:41 pm

The recent meteor blast in Russia has brought renewed attention to the risk posed by meteors on a collision course with Earth. NASA and the European Space Agency are working on a plan to develop a rocket that could collide with an asteroid and knock it off course. Dr. Andrew Cheng of the John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, who is leading the initiative, talks about it with host Jacki Lyden.

Movies I've Seen A Million Times
3:56 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

The Movie Emily Spivey Has 'Seen A Million Times'

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Dolly Parton in a scene from the film 9 to 5.
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Emily Spivey created the NBC sitcom Up All Night.
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By Lily Percy

Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 5:04 pm

The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

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Jazz
2:22 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

Tadd Dameron, A Jazz Master With A 'Lyrical Grace'

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Tadd Dameron (smiling at center) was an important figure in American jazz and bebop. He is shown here with Fats Navarro on trumpet, and Charlie Rouse and Ernie Henry on saxophone.
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Dameron was a talented composer, pianist and arranger, as well as a mentor to a generation of musicians. His work was profoundly influential, although over the decades he has faded into obscurity.
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Paul Combs is a jazz musician, composer and arranger, as well as an educator and author.
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By Tom Vitale

Originally published on Sun March 10, 2013 5:30 am

In the 1940s and '50s, Tadd Dameron worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Miles Davis to Artie Shaw, Count Basie to John Coltrane. Everything Dameron touched had one thing in common, says Paul Combs, author of Dameronia: The Life and Work of Tadd Dameron.

"A penchant for lyricism," Combs says. "Almost everything that he writes has a very lyrical grace to it."

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