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Weekdays 4:00-6:00 PM
Robert Seigel & Melissa Block

Live news from National Public Radio.

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Music Interviews
2:41 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

Laura Mvula's Velvet 'Moon' Is A Revelation

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Laura Mvula's debut is ambitiously confident, as if she and her band had perfected their sound years ago.
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Originally published on Fri May 17, 2013 8:33 am

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The Salt
12:06 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

Go Fish (Somewhere Else): Warming Oceans Are Altering Catches

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Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon at Craig, Alaska, in 2005. Researchers say fish are being found in new areas because of changing ocean temperatures.
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Originally published on Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Climate change is gradually altering the fish that end up on ice in seafood counters around the world, according to a new study.

"The composition of the [global] fish catch includes more and more fish from the warmer areas, and cold-water fish are getting more rare, because the temperatures are increasing," says Daniel Pauly at the University of British Columbia, a co-author of the study.

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Shots - Health News
11:23 am
Wed May 15, 2013

Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells

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A scientist removes the nucleus from a human egg using a pipette. This is the first step to making personalized embryonic stem cells.
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Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of Oregon Health & Science University, first cloned monkey embryos before trying his method on human eggs.
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Originally published on Thu May 16, 2013 10:57 am

Scientists say they have, for the first time, cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells.

The accomplishment is a long-sought step toward harnessing the potential power of embryonic stem cells to treat many human diseases. But the work also raises a host of ethical concerns.

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U.S.
7:02 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

IRS Inspector General Faults 'Ineffective Management'

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Audie Cornish talks to Scott Horsley about the IRS Inspector General's report on the agency's audit of conservative groups.

Around the Nation
5:11 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

With No Unified Database, Many Murder Victims Remain Nameless

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A family friend posts fliers after Samantha Koenig's disappearance in 2012. Koenig's father is now an advocate for a mandatory national missing persons database.
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A map at the Anchorage Police Department tracks the travels of confessed killer Israel Keyes. Investigators say the lack of a unified missing persons database is frustrating efforts to identify other potential victims.
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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

A serial killer who committed suicide in an Alaska jail last year confessed to murdering at least 11 people across the country. But Israel Keyes didn't name names, and investigators trying to figure out who he killed are running into a major stumbling block: There is no unified, mandatory national database for missing persons.

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