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Latin America
3:04 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...

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Foreign language spoken)

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The Two-Way
2:55 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

Venezuela Sets Date To Elect Chavez's Successor

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A woman wipes photos of late President Hugo Chavez at a makeshift altar for him in the main square of Sabaneta, western Venezuela, on Saturday.
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Originally published on Sun March 10, 2013 5:57 am

  • Listen to the full story on Hugo Chavez's legacy on All Things Considered

Venezuela's elections commission announced Saturday that voters will go to the polls on April 14 to choose a successor to President Hugo Chavez, who died this week after a battle with cancer.

The nation's constitution mandated that an election be called within 30 days of Chavez's death on March 5, but the scheduled date falls outside of that window. Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's vice president, was sworn in as interim leader on Friday.

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Science
2:11 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

Scientists Make Plans To Blast Threatening Asteroids

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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 4:41 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
1:56 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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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 3:04 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
12:22 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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Originally published on Sun March 10, 2013 3:30 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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All Tech Considered
12:11 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

How Kenya's High-Tech Voting Nearly Lost The Election

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An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission official carries closed ballot boxes to be counted in Mombasa.
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An electoral worker at the National Tallying Center reads a newspaper headlining the problems in the vote counting and tallying process in Kenya this week. Election officials had to count the ballots from the nation's presidential election by hand after abandoning the electronic tabulation system.
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Voters queued for hours across Kenya as old-fashioned paper ballots had to be rushed to polling stations.
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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 2:10 pm

It was supposed to be the most modern election in African history. Biometric identification kits with electronic thumb pads, registration rolls on laptops at every polling station, and an SMS-relayed, real-time transmission of the results to the National Tallying Center in Nairobi.

Ambitious? Of course. Only 23 percent of the country has access to electricity.

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The Two-Way
9:23 am
Sat March 9, 2013

A Chat With A Radical Fighter In Syria

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Members of Jabhat al-Nusra clean their weapons, in Aleppo in December. The Islamist rebel group has become an increasingly powerful force in Syria's civil war.
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Islamists from Jabhat al-Nusra stage a protest in the Syrian town of Kfar Nabel. Until recently, the group has been reluctant to appear in public.
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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 3:51 am

The Islamist rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra has been secretive, keeping to itself and refusing to meet Western journalists. The group has been designated a terrorist organization by the Obama administration and was thought to be made up mostly of foreign fighters, working alongside Syrian rebels.

But lately, members are starting to open up as more Syrians join the group and they make more gains on the ground in the fight against the Syrian government.

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All Tech Considered
8:50 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Could This Robot Save Your Job?

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Baxter is billed by its makers as a "collaborative manufacturing robot." It can work alongside humans to do simple, repetitive tasks.
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By Nina Gregory

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Krulwich Wonders...
8:09 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Guy Builds Solar-Powered Death Ray In His Backyard (Yawn)

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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 3:22 am

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Music Interviews
8:06 am
Sat March 9, 2013

The 'German Bruce Springsteen' Tackles English-Language Rock

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German musician Herbert Gronemeyer's first U.S. release is titled I Walk.
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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 6:39 am

From Bill Haley & His Comets to Elvis Costello, English is the mother tongue of rock. But Germany has a huge rock star at home who has been famous for 30 years. His name is Herbert Gronemeyer, and he's the best-selling German recording artist of all time, known to some as the "German Bruce Springsteen."

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