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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, Michele Norris 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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'Think Like A Man,' And We'll See What Happens

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Mya (Meagan Good), while dating Zeke (Romany Malco), follows the do's and don't's of dating advice from comedian Steve Harvey's real-world self-help book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.

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When the men — Jeremy (Jerry Ferrara), Bennett (Gary Owen), Michael (Terrence J), Dominic (Michael Ealy) and Zeke — discover the women are using dating tactics from Steve Harvey's book, they decide to turn the tables on their significant others.

By Bob Mondello

Originally published on Fri April 20, 2012 3:06 pm

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Oy, the things daters have to worry about these days. Not just how to dress, act and turn "no" into "go," but how not to become a chirp-chirp girl.

12:53 pm

Thu April 19, 2012

Should We Kill The Dollar Bill?

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By Robert Benincasa

Originally published on Mon April 23, 2012 1:53 pm

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Our story begins last month inside a busy Washington, D.C. subway station plastered with posters of giant dollar bills. One of them says: "Tell Congress to stop wasting time trying to eliminate the dollar bill." Another asks: "Do you heart the dollar?"

Political fights in the nation's capital normally involve billions or even trillions, not single dollars. What's going on here?

12:26 pm

Thu April 19, 2012

Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies

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Levon Helm performing with The Band in 1971.

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Levon Helm performing at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco in 2010.

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From left to right, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson and Bob Dylan onstage at Madison Square Garden in 1974.

By Will Hermes

Originally published on Fri April 20, 2012 5:33 am

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3:10 pm

Wed April 18, 2012

Jargon To Jabberwocky: 3 Books To Jazz Your Writing

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By and

Originally published on Thu April 19, 2012 5:49 am

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I'm an English professor, and I spent the first 15 years of my career trying to write like one. You might be surprised by what that's like. We don't emulate the fiction writers we most admire. We too rarely practice what we preach to our composition students — namely that good writing is simple and direct. In fact, we're notorious for maze-y sentences and ugly jargon. The point seems less to attract readers with clear prose than to smack them over the head with a sign that says, "Aren't I smart?"

2:04 pm

Wed April 18, 2012

NBC To Live-Stream Most Summer Olympic Events

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Originally published on Wed April 18, 2012 2:54 pm

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NBC has announced it plans to live-stream every event at the Summer Olympics where it has cameras.

NPR Story

1:41 pm

Wed April 18, 2012

Panetta Condemns Latest U.S. Troop Photo Scandal

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Originally published on Wed April 18, 2012 2:54 pm

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Newly-published photos show U.S. troops in Afghanistan posing with the dead bodies of insurgents. The incident, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, occurred in 2010. It's the latest setback for the military's counterinsurgency strategy, which depends on winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.

Remembrances

1:36 pm

Wed April 18, 2012

Dick Clark, 'Bandstand' Host, Dead at 82

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Pop culture icon Dick Clark died Wednesday at age 82. He started his career as a college disc jockey and went on to shape the way America viewed music, TV game shows and New Year's Eve. Here, he hosts American Bandstand in 1958.

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Dancing teens flock to Clark's American Bandstand after he took it national from Philadelphia's WFIL-TV in 1957.

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Clark and his first wife, Barbara, get a hand from the newest member of the Bandstand family, Richard Clark Jr., in 1958.

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Clark broadened his legacy in the 1970s and '80s by building a game-show empire. Here, on the set of The New $25,000 Pyramid in 1984, Clark mugs with Roxie Roker (left) and Marla Gibbs, co-stars of TV's The Jeffersons.

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The eternally youthful Clark shares the stage at the Emerson Radio Hall of Fame in 1990 with fellow inductees (from left) Charles Osgood, Frank Stanton and Paul Harvey.

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Clark celebrates the 50th birthday of Bandstand on May 3, 2002, with fans and a musical supergroup.

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A debilitating stroke in 2004 forced Clark to cut back on public appearances. Here, he and his third wife, Kari Wigton, hang out at the 2010 Daytime Emmy Awards with Ryan Seacrest, who'd become his co-host on New Year's Rockin' Eve.

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In his later years, Clark became as much a New Year's Eve fixture as he was on Bandstand decades earlier. By 2011, he and Seacrest shared Rockin' Eve host duties.

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Dick Clark on American Bandstand

By Neda Ulaby

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 11:59 am

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Dick Clark, affectionately known as the "world's oldest teenager," has died. He was 82, and had suffered a heart attack while in a Santa Monica hospital for an outpatient procedure.

Richard Wagstaff Clark became a national icon with American Bandstand in the 1950s, hosting the show for more than 30 years. Clark also hosted the annual New Year's Eve special for ABC for decades. He weathered scandals, hosted game shows and renewed his Bandstand fame with a new generation by producing the nostalgic TV drama American Dreams.

1:12 pm

Wed April 18, 2012

London Smash 'Two Guvnors' Comes To Broadway

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Adapted from The Servant of Two Masters, the new comedy One Man, Two Guvnors follows the "always famished and easily confused" Francis Henshall (James Corden, left), who must combat his own befuddlement while keeping both of his employers — a local gangster and criminal-in-hiding Stanley Stubbers (Oliver Chris) — from meeting.

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Henshall's second master is Rachel Crabbe (Jemima Rooper), who's Stubbers' secret lover — and posing as her dead mobster brother, whom Stubbers has killed.

By Jeff Lunden

Originally published on Wed April 18, 2012 2:54 pm

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If you weren't a college theater major, you can be forgiven for not knowing much about commedia dell'arte, the 500-year-old theatrical tradition that Carlo Goldoni used for his comedy The Servant of Two Masters in 1743. Contemporary playwright Richard Bean has adapted that play into the decidedly British laugh riot One Man, Two Guvnors -- and he says all you really need to know about commedia is ... well, it's funny.

2:38 pm

Tue April 17, 2012

New Information Emerges In Secret Service Scandal

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Originally published on Tue April 17, 2012 3:15 pm

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

And I'm Audie Cornish.

We have new information now in the investigation of Secret Service misconduct. Agents are alleged to have hired prostitutes before President Obama's visit to South America last week. The Secret Service director has been talking with members of Congress, and NPR's Ari Shapiro joins us now to tell us what he's hearing. Hey there, Ari.

ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Hi, Audie.

1:34 pm

Tue April 17, 2012

Pay Your Taxes: A Cautionary Tale

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Young Buck, 2004

By Zoe Chace

Originally published on Tue April 17, 2012 3:15 pm

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When IRS agents raided the house of rapper Young Buck, they seized all his things: his white leather dining chairs, his watches, his craps table, his tattoo kit. Even his refrigerator. The Nashville artist, who was once part of 50 Cent's G-Unit, owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.

His lawyer, Robin Mitchell Joyce, said he thought Young Buck's taxes were being handled by his business manager. They weren't.

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2:03 pm

Thu April 19, 2012