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It's All Politics
10:29 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Reagan Blood Update: It's Not For Sale Anymore

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The Reagans at the George Washington University Medical Center today, April 3, 1981.

Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 10:36 am

If you had hoped to bid on the medical-lab vial that purportedly contains the dried remains of a blood sample from President Ronald Reagan taken on the day he was nearly assassinated in March 1981, you're out of luck.

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Monkey See
10:03 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Your New 'American Idol' Is (Surprise!) A Laid-Back Dude With An Acoustic Guitar

Credit Michael Becker / Fox
Phillip Phillips was crowned the winner of American Idol on Wednesday night.

Being named "Phillip Phillips" kind of makes Phillip Phillips sound like he was created like a Cabbage Patch Kid, and after his manufacture, someone said, "What should we call him?" And somebody else said, "Phillip!" And then the first person said, "Phillip what?" But by then, the well of creativity had run dry. "Phillip ... Phillips!"

A star is born.

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Mountain Stage
9:45 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Anais Mitchell On Mountain Stage

Credit Brian Blauser/Mountain Stage
Anais Mitchell.

Originally published on Thu January 31, 2013 9:11 am

Singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell returns to Mountain Stage, recorded live in Charleston, W.V. A native of Vermont, Mitchell spent her childhood traveling through the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe before returning to attend Middlebury College — experiences that imprint a rural worldliness on her deeply imaginative songwriting.

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The Two-Way
9:08 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Ted, What Have You Been Doing With Yourself? Unabomber, You Say?

Credit Elaine Thompson / AP
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski being led into a Montana court in 1996.

No, the Unabomber won't be attending his 50th class reunion at Harvard this week.

But Ted Kaczynski has updated his former classmates about what he's been up to all these years.

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Alt.Latino
8:54 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Guest DJ: Ana Tijoux Talks Hip-Hop, Chilean Politics And Being Married To Jazz

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Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux.

Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 12:16 pm

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