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    Fiction Weekend Prompt and Stories List for 2/8-2/10 2013

    FEBRUARY 4, 2013 11:55AM

    By OS Weekend Fiction Club


    Topics: fiction weekend, fiction, short stories, npr, npr three minute fiction contest, contest

    • 18 Ratings
    • 837 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    When the buck stops (flash fiction)

    NOVEMBER 4, 2012 6:21PM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: health care reform, grassy knoll, dallas, zapruder, jfk, presidency, npr, 3-minute fiction, losing entry

    • 1 Ratings
    • 195 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    For Sale: The White House

    OCTOBER 17, 2012 5:47PM

    By Tom Magstadt


    Topics: peter overby, npr, voter registration, aapc, crossroads america, crossroads gps, americans for prosperity, restore our future, tax exempt groups, 501(c)(4)s, superpacs, citizens united, campaign finance reform, 2012 election, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 202 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Isolation is Not the Answer

    OCTOBER 10, 2012 12:36AM

    By Rita Heidtman


    Topics: adx florence, adx, norway, bastoy, california, prison, solitary confinement, colorado, shus, amnesty international, social justice, human rights, the eigth amendment, the pelican bay state prison, npr, the atlantic, the boston review, cdcr, supermax prisons, supermax

    • 0 Ratings
    • 270 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Romney Says He Will Get Rid Of Big Bird

    OCTOBER 4, 2012 4:48PM

    By Dicky Neely


    Topics: mitt romney, politics 2012, nea, npr, cpb, big birb

    • 3 Ratings
    • 335 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    An NPR Music Critic's Egregious Crime

    AUGUST 23, 2012 3:17PM

    By ChillerPop


    Topics: kelly clarkson, joan jett, riot grrl, kathleen hanna, plasmatics, wendy o. williams, nina hagen, poly styrene, siouxsie sioux, patti smith, blink 182, green day, chillerpop, debbie harry, blondie, madonna, social distortion, bad religion, nofx, taylor swift, kelly clarkson, sex pistols, ramones, punk, npr, ann powers

    • 4 Ratings
    • 436 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    The Love That Dare Not Speak It's Name

    JULY 15, 2012 3:37PM

    By Midwest Muse


    Topics: taxes open call, open+call, taxes, public library, ice floes, npr

    • 2 Ratings
    • 228 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Affordable Care Act Stands, So What's Next?

    JUNE 28, 2012 3:01PM

    By Jennifer Moon


    Topics: politics, news, healthcare reform, michele bachmann, npr, healthcare costs, ezra klein, healthcare industry, single payer system, cost of healthcare, healthcare decision, universal health insurance, antonin scalia, arizona immigration decision, affordable care act, scotus

    • 2 Ratings
    • 419 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Money and Needs

    MAY 20, 2012 4:39PM

    By Julie White


    Topics: money, middle class, downsizing, npr, itzhak perlman, class consciousness

    • 2 Ratings
    • 303 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    STORY CORP THIS MORNING...

    MAY 18, 2012 1:09PM

    By Rob Neukirch


    Topics: radio, interview, npr, story corp, telling stories

    • 4 Ratings
    • 337 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Do you believe in signs?

    MAY 16, 2012 9:22PM

    By thefuddler


    Topics: rainbow, npr, terry gross, c peter wagner, religious right, fundamentalist, dominionism, dominionist, fundamentalism, new apostolic reformation, bumper sticker, gay rights, gay, sexuality, sex

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1120 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Marie Howe's Poetry

    APRIL 15, 2012 4:28PM

    By Anne Cameron Cutri


    Topics: marie howe, npr, terry gross, prayer, the kingdom of ordinary time, christian thought, feminist thought, poetry, belief/religion, books

    • 2 Ratings
    • 364 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    As Ratings Drop, NPR Adopts NBA's 24-Second Clock

    APRIL 1, 2012 8:23PM

    By Con Chapman


    Topics: npr, national public radio, satire, comedy, spoof, humor

    • 22 Ratings
    • 1563 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Israel declares war on USA!

    FEBRUARY 5, 2012 6:06PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: news, politics, foreign affairs, netanyahu, ehud barak, barack obama, admiral mike mullen, gen. martin dempsey, joint chiefs of staff, npr, ahmadinejad, ayatollah khameni, nuclear deterence, mad, israeli nuclear weapons

    • 0 Ratings
    • 513 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Why this gay man supports Planned Parenthood

    FEBRUARY 4, 2012 3:56PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: women's rights, women's health, women, uplanned pregancy, unwanted pregnancy, unwanted pregnancies, unplanned pregnancies, u.s. house of representatives, susan g. komen for the cure foundation, susan g. komen, same-sex parents, same-sex parenting, right wing, republican tea party, republican party, public broadcasting service, poverty, pollution, politics, planned parenthood, pbs, patriarchy, parents, parenting, parenthood, overpopulation, overconsumption, npr, national public radio, misogyny, misogynists, komen foundation, hunger, homophobia, global warming, gay parents, gay parenting, gay men, feminism, fascism, facists, depletion of natural resources, climate change, breast cancer, "tea party"

    • 7 Ratings
    • 986 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    My story that didn't win the NPR 3-minute fiction contest

    JANUARY 4, 2012 5:26AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, writers and writing, fiction, npr, npr three-minute fiction, wriitng contests

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2828 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    The Heartbreaking Upper Big Branch Mine Settlement

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 8:33AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: corporate murder, corporations are people too, regulatory capture, mike elk, senator joe manchin, deregulation, government regulation, environmental regulation, all the devils are here, bethany mclean, inc., mccoy coal group, npr, howard berkes, jr., ken ward, richard trumpka, coal tattoo, charleston gazette, alpha national resources, kevin stricklin, increasingly clean coal, tony oppegard, msha, mine safety and health administration, gary wayne quarles. booth goodwin, gary quarles, don blankenship, massey energy, rex mullins, clay mullins, upper big branch mine settlement, upper big branch mine disaster, coal mining disasters, coal mining, coal, environment, business

    • 0 Ratings
    • 230 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Federal lawyers may help South Dakota tribes enforce ICWA

    DECEMBER 2, 2011 1:05PM

    By Richard Wexler


    Topics: south dakota, rep. jim moran, npr, native americans, laura sullivan, indian child welfare act, foster care, family preservation, civil rights, child welfare, child abuse, bureau of indian affairs

    • 0 Ratings
    • 290 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Let Them Work at McDonald's...

    NOVEMBER 22, 2011 7:59PM

    By Stephen Robinson


    Topics: politics, occupy wall street, mcdonald's, npr

    • 0 Ratings
    • 236 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    In "Them Thar Hills," I See God

    NOVEMBER 16, 2011 2:14AM

    By Hesham A. Hassaballa


    Topics: physics, verse, quran, expansion, universe, saul perlmutter, terry gross, fresh air, npr, religion, science, religion/belief

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