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The iconic Industrial Trust Tower in downtown Providence is empty for the first time in 85 years. Developers want to turn it into luxury apartments — and want the state and city to pay for it. But Providence — like the rest of Rhode Island — faces its own economic problems, as well as a recent failed investment.
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Pitch Perfect has plans for a sequel in 2015; NBC's reality show
The Sing-Off is coming back for its fourth season after being cancelled, and Pentatonix has millions of hits on YouTube for making awesome videos like "The Evolution of Music." The father of contemporary a cappella explains the genre's appeal.
John Williams'
Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.
"Women's anger is very scary to people," author Claire Messud says. Her new novel,
The Woman Upstairs, features a seething main character, a young woman whose anger is unsettling.
Actor-director Katie Aselton could watch Kathryn Bigelow's
Point Break a million times. "It totally scoops you up and takes you for a ride," she says.
More than a century ago, German settlers found a pocket of Texas to call home between Austin and San Antonio. And once the local lingo merged with their own language, it proved to be an interesting dialect. Weekends on
All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with University of Texas professor Hans Boas, who has been archiving the last remaining speakers of this unique blend.
Within science circles, trying to come up with a new universal language was a trendy past-time in the 17th Century. Even the man who discovered gravity, Sir Isaac Newton, took a stab at it. Arika Okrent, editor-at-large at TheWeek.com, talks about its failure to catch on with Weekends on
All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden.
NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read
Ten Ring Fingers by Tamara Breuer of Washington, D.C., and
Ghost Words by Matheus Macedo of Winthrop, Mass.
NPR's Bob Mondello says J.J. Abrams' latest
Star Trek film knows how to make the sparks and feelings fly, but doesn't bother making the sparks and feeling matter very much.
More than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's disease, and the number is only going to increase — in part, due to aging baby boomers. But researchers say increased awareness and early detection is helping patients live with the disease.
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To This Day by Shane Koyczan from the album Shut Up and Say Something
Blomster Små by Rolf Just Nilsen from the album Barnas Viser 1
To This Day by Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long from the album Remembrance Year
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by Leonard Nimoy from the album Spaced Out - The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner
Graduation March by Qitup from the album Audio Tools
I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate (Extended Version) by Suli Breaks from the album I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate (Extended Version) - Single
Who’s On First by Abbott & Costello from the album Who's On First
Pain Is Temporary by Etthehiphoppreacher from the album Pain Is Temporary - Single
Sports Inspirational Speeches by Erich Schwer from the album Sports Inspirational Speeches - Single
Where Have All the Children Gone? by Joseph Kerschbaum from the album 1 of 29
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