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Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block

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On May 3, 1971, at 5 p.m., All Things Considered debuted on 90 public radio stations.

In the 40 years since, almost everything about the program has changed, from the hosts, producers, editors and reporters to the length of the program, the equipment used and even the audience.

However there is one thing that remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.

All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. In 1977, ATC expanded to seven days a week with a one-hour show on Saturdays and Sundays, currently hosted by Guy Raz.

During each broadcast, stories and reports come to listeners from NPR reporters and correspondents based throughout the United States and the world. The hosts interview newsmakers and contribute their own reporting. Rounding out the mix are the disparate voices of a variety of commentators, including Sports Commentator Stefen Fastis, Poet Andrei Codrescu and Political Columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne,

All Things Considered has earned many of journalism's highest honors, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.

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Middle East
12:56 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

On Multiple Fronts, Russian Jews Reshape Israel

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Russian-speaking Israelis mingle at the Soho nightclub in Tel Aviv. The club caters to the Russian-speaking immigrant community, featuring hired dancers and extravagant decorations rarely seen in informal Israel.
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People gather for a Russian folk music festival in northern Israel in May. About 2,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union attended the two-day festival, singing Russian standards, barbecuing and drinking vodka.
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Children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union attend a ballet class in Lod, central Israel. Some prominent ballet dancers left the former Soviet Union for Israel, forming ballet schools and continuing a dance culture highly regarded in their countries of origin.
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Immigrants from the former Soviet Union practice sword-fighting in full knight armor at a public park in Ramat Gan, central Israel. Medieval combat simulation is popular in ex-Soviet countries, and some immigrants have continued the hobby in Israel.
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Russian-speaking Israeli immigrants train at a boxing club in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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A choir practices in a government-funded elderly care facility catering to Russian-speaking immigrants in Ashdod. The choir sings Russian standards and Israeli folk songs translated into Russian.
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Canned sardines are served at a family dinner at the home of Moldovan immigrant Puma Rotner in Ashdod. Rotner left her native city of Bendery in Moldova in 2006, bringing her dishes and silverware to Israel.
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Bella Perlin (center) and Avraham Shapiro (left), Belarusian immigrants, eat breakfast at their home in Hadera, northern Israel. They moved to Israel in 1991 at the height of the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union.
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Alexandra Bahman, who immigrated to Israel from Moldova in 2006, sits in her bedroom with her cat in Ashdod. Bahman left Moldova with the carpet and photos that now decorate her bedroom walls.
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Two immigrants from the Ural region of the former Soviet Union rinse off after bathing in the Mediterranean Sea on an early December morning in Tel Aviv. Many Soviet immigrants gather at the beach for a traditional winter dip, the closest substitute to the freezing waters of the former Soviet Union.
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Acrobats wait in a dressing room before their show at L'Chaim, a Russian restaurant in Ashdod. Many circus performers in Israel emigrated from the former Soviet Union, and acrobatic shows are a unique feature of Russian restaurants in Israel.
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People attend a 2011 New Year's party catering to the upper crust of Israel's Russian-speaking immigrant community, in Tel Aviv.
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An employee of the Mizra pork factory poses with a pig's head in a refrigerated warehouse in Kibbutz Mizra, northern Israel. The million-strong Soviet immigrant community has increased customer demand for pork in the country, a nonkosher food rarely eaten by Israeli Jews.
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Russian-speaking Israelis mingle at the Soho nightclub in Tel Aviv. The club caters to the Russian-speaking immigrant community, featuring hired dancers and extravagant decorations rarely seen in informal Israel.
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Gymnasts from Russian-speaking immigrant families warm up at a gymnastics competition organized for Israel's immigrant community, in the southern resort city of Eilat. Most of Israel's Olympic gymnasts are immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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A waiter serves traditional Russian food at a seaside restaurant in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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Originally published on Sun January 6, 2013 5:54 am

Many signs are in the Cyrillic alphabet. The men and women sitting in the cafes are speaking Russian. The shops sell vodka, black bread, pickled herring and Russian-brewed Baltika beer. You have to pinch yourself to remember where you are.

This scene, with all its echoes of the former Soviet Union, is not in St. Petersburg or Vladivostok, or anywhere else in that vast sweep of bleak northern lands. It is in Ashdod, Israel, a palm-lined, pastel-colored port city that sprawls along the mild shores of the Mediterranean.

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National Security
12:34 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

At $130 Million A Plane, Critics Question The Cost Of The F-35

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Visitors look at a Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet at the Singapore Airshow in 2010. The cost of the plane keeps on rising and is now $130 million or more per plane, depending on the model.
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Originally published on Wed January 2, 2013 4:51 pm

Second of two parts

In a mile-long building on the edge of Fort Worth, Texas, an assembly line is taking shape to build the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Lockheed Martin, which got the contract to build the jet back in 2001, is slowly cranking up production. It's hard to keep a plane current, when it takes so many years to develop.

But Lockheed's Kevin McCormack says the F-35 is designed to change as technology evolves.

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Shots - Health News
12:04 pm
Wed January 2, 2013

Drug Fulfills Promise Of Research Into Cystic Fibrosis Gene

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Kalydeco is one of the first drugs that is effective at combating the root causes of a genetic disease.
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Emily Schaller suffers from cystic fibrosis. New treatments that target the genetic basis of her disease allow her to live an active, healthy life.
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Originally published on Wed January 2, 2013 4:53 pm

The promise of genetic medicine is beginning to be fulfilled, but it's been a long, hard slog.

Take the story of Kalydeco. It's designed to treat people with a lung disease called cystic fibrosis. While not quite a cure, the drug is extremely effective for some CF patients.

But the success of Kalydeco has been more than two decades in the making.

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Asia
8:01 am
Wed January 2, 2013

The Tony Soprano of Karachi: Gangster Or Politician?

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Baloch has been the most powerful figure in Karachi's Lyari neighborhood since 2009. His armed men control the area, and police stay away. He's shown here at his home.
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Uzair Baloch is known as the don of Karachi's Lyari Town slum. He is pictured here at his home.
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Uzair Baloch (center), 32, controls an impoverished section of Karachi and commands a large armed force. He is routinely described as a gangster, though he calls himself a politician and a social worker. He's shown here at a rally in Karachi in November 2011.
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Originally published on Wed January 2, 2013 4:56 pm

Gangsters have been part of life in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, for decades. And nowhere is their rule more notorious than in the slums of Lyari, a dusty warren of low-slung tenement houses in the south central part of Karachi.

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Around the Nation
2:28 pm
Tue January 1, 2013

2013's New Laws Govern Driverless Cars, Employee Passwords

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Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 11:19 am

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. New laws go into effect across the country today and we're going to look at a few of them that all struggle with the same problem, how to keep up with technology. We're going to hear about three of them now from Jon Kuhl of the National Conference of State Legislatures. The first deals with that perplexing new phenomenon, driverless cars.

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