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Weekend Edition Saturday

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Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories.

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NPR Story
4:55 am
Sat November 3, 2012

The Political Middle: What Ohioans Have To Say

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

It's already starting to rain over northern Ohio this past weekend as the outer whirls of Hurricane Sandy approached. Just a few days before the election, people in Reminderville, the village of about 3,000, were concerned about turnout.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Trick or treat.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Trick or treat.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Hey, what's going on?

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Hi.

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NPR Story
4:41 am
Sat November 3, 2012

China Prepares For New Leaders In Critical Transition

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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 7:48 am

Just two days after the U.S. presidential election, China opens the most important event in a decade on its political calendar: a transition of power. Host Scott Simon talks to NPR's Louisa Lim and Frank Langfitt in China about the upcoming 18th Party Congress.

NPR Story
4:41 am
Sat November 3, 2012

In Storm-Drenched New Jersey, A Fight For Ice

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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 7:48 am

After a major storm, ice becomes a precious commodity. Host Scott Simon talks with Joe Romano, owner of Sea Isle Ice Company in Sea Isle City, N.J., about how the company is getting ice to people in need.

NPR Story
4:41 am
Sat November 3, 2012

Obama Tries To Bank Early Votes In Ohio

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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 7:48 am

The presidential candidates will be hopscotching among the handful of states that are most closely contested this weekend. President Obama begins campaigning Saturday where he left off Friday, in the all-important battleground of Ohio.

House & Senate Races
2:17 am
Sat November 3, 2012

Race For Redrawn Calif. District Is Tight And Pricey

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Democrat Ami Bera is challenging Lungren. Bera ran against Lungren in 2004 and lost, but since the district was redrawn, the race has become competitive.
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Republican Congressman Dan Lungren (center) tours a cancer center in Sacramento, Calif. Lungren is running for re-election in California's 7th Congressional District.
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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 7:48 am

Dan Lungren has been in and out of public office since 1979. The Republican represented a Southern California district in the '80s, served as the state's attorney general for eight years, and then returned to Congress to represent the Sacramento area in 2004.

These days, he's still the same pro-business, limited-government conservative he's always been, Lungren told a friendly audience in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova.

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Fine Art
2:17 am
Sat November 3, 2012

The Story Of Steadman, Drawn From His 'Gonzo' Art

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Among his many accomplishments, Ralph Steadman illustrated Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, about a journalist's reporting trip turned hallucinogenic bender.
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Hunter S. Thompson (left) and Ralph Steadman's first collaboration was on a story about the Kentucky Derby.
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Ralph Steadman displays his signature style in this 1970 drawing of a New York homeless man.
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Originally published on Mon November 5, 2012 6:36 am

Every morning, British illustrator Ralph Steadman wakes up in his country estate in rural England and attacks a piece of paper, hurling ink, blowing paint through a straw and scratching away layers to reveal lines and forms that surprise even him.

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Deceptive Cadence
2:17 am
Sat November 3, 2012

Storm Scores: Finding Poignant Reminders In Water-Damaged Music

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A window-screen view toward conductor Marin Alsop's studio, badly damaged during the hurricane.
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Originally published on Mon November 12, 2012 7:18 am

This past week has been filled with some truly tragic stories of loss and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. There are also a few stories of near misses and disasters averted. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, fortunately has one of the latter.

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Music News
11:03 pm
Fri November 2, 2012

Radio Tanzania: A Disappearing History On Tape

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Radio Tanzania archivist Bruno Nanguka stands with just a few of the 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes stored in the station's archives.
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Radio Tanzania was the country's only station from its birth in 1951 until the mid-1990s; its tape archives hold poetry, drama and speeches in addition to music.
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"During the '60s, '70s and '80s, Tanzania had one of the most lively musical scenes in East Africa," Corey says. The music of that era is now referred to as zilipendwa — literally, "the ones that were loved."
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As Tanzania's one-party system collapsed in the 1980s, the state media monopoly ended. Radio Tanzania became just another signal on the dial, which it remains today.
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Radio Tanzania archivist Bruno Nanguka stands with just a few of the 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes stored in the station's archives.
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Rebecca Corey, a 25-year-old music lover from Athens, Ga., fell in love with Tanzania when she was 18 and visited the country to volunteer at an orphanage. Today, she leads the effort to save the Radio Tanzania tapes.
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Rebecca Corey, project director for the Tanzania Heritage Project, and archivist Bruno Nanguka are working to save Radio Tanzania's reel-to-reel tapes.
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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 4:10 pm

At the archives of Radio Tanzania, more than 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes are stacked in floor-to-ceiling shelves. Each band, musician and recording date is painstakingly notated. The tapes reside inside three musty rooms of the Tanzania Broadcasting Corp., which occupies the old brick-and-concrete BBC building in Dar es Salaam.

Radio Tanzania was the country's only station from its birth in 1951 until the mid-1990s, when competing stations came on the air and state-controlled radio became irrelevant.

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Around the Nation
8:18 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Mammals Get A Facelift At N.Y. History Museum

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Technology
8:18 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Week In Tech: Microsoft's Big Gamble

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Big week for Microsoft. The company introduced Windows 8, its new operating system, and entered the ever-expanding tablet market. These are major steps for a company that has been perceived as lagging behind Apple and Google in innovation. We're joined now by NPR's Steve Henn in Silicon Valley.

Steve, thanks for being with us.

STEVE HENN, BYLINE: Oh, my pleasure.

SIMON: Why is Windows 8 considered such a defining moment for Microsoft?

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