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Outrage Continues In India On Gang-Rape Case

Originally published on Sat January 5, 2013 4:10 pm

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NPR's Julie McCarthy updates Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden on the national outrage in India over the gang rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old student as well as the charges against those accused.

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Sat January 5, 2013

Looking For Lost Memories In The Delta

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"The Peter's Rock Church in Marianna is no everlasting monument; it has been left to rot, its windows broken, its steeple fallen over. Still, I found it beautiful. Kneeling in the cemetery, listening to the insects hissing, watching as a dog wandered past, I felt history coming at me from all sides."

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"I met Billy D. Harris just before dawn at the country store in Aubrey, Ark., then followed him out to cotton fields that were soon so hot everyone dripped with sweat. Billy pulled off his shirt before continuing to 'chop,' or thin the growing plants."

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"A young Marine on an R&R leave from the military visits his home, a sharecropper shack, in 1970 in Hughes, Ark."

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"I drove out past the town of Marion beneath a quiet sky, as beautiful as anything I'd seen, to the house of a woman who lived by herself." 1969

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"The young daughters of Reverend Lander relax on the porch of their home on a hot day in 1970 in Hughes, Ark."

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"A tractor road muddied by autumn rain in Lee County, Ark."

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"I drove out past the town of Marion beneath a quiet sky, as beautiful as anything I'd seen, to the house of a woman who lived by herself." 1969

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"Early one morning I was driving past a row of abandoned workers' houses when I spotted a pair of women's shoes on a porch. In a Lucite box, covered in ruby red glitter, they glowed like broken glass."

By Claire O'Neill

Originally published on Sat January 5, 2013 7:14 pm

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Photographer Eugene Richards had several reasons to visit the Arkansas Delta 40 years after his initial visit.

"I went back, ostensibly, to look at the culture and see if there was anything left of it," he says. Or at least — that was the pitch he gave National Geographic magazine, in hopes that it would send him there, which it did. You can see the story in the magazine's November issue.

4:58 pm

Fri January 4, 2013

Baby Boomers' Last Wishes: Motorcycle Hearses And Facebook Obits

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Lew Bird says that before passing away, his friend requested that his funeral include one last ride on a motorcycle.

By Peter Gray

Originally published on Fri January 4, 2013 6:02 pm

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Old Aristocracy Hill isn't a part of Springfield, Ill., that draws a lot of attention. The quiet neighborhood dates back to before the Civil War, its historic homes now carefully preserved by proud business owners.

But outside a stately funeral home, a large black-and-chrome Harley Davidson motorcycle trike pulls out of the parking lot, towing a matching casket in its glass-sided trailer.

It's not something you would expect to see, but it's exactly what 67-year-old Lew Bird says his friend Dave Rondelli wanted: one last ride.

4:58 pm

Fri January 4, 2013

Disappearing Mule Deer A New Reality Throughout Western U.S.

Originally published on Fri January 4, 2013 6:02 pm

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And I'm Audie Cornish. Scientists throughout the west are investigating a mysterious disappearance. Mule deer are vanishing. In Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, populations are half what they were in the 1970s. From Aspen Public Radio, Luke Runyon reports on some possible reasons.

3:54 pm

Fri January 4, 2013

Pakistani Military Hopes Rehab Will Lead Men To Paralympics

By Dina Temple-Raston

Originally published on Fri January 4, 2013 6:02 pm

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.

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