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All Things Considered

Weekdays, 4pm - 7pm; Weekends, 5pm - 6pm

All Things Considered is a NPR radio newsmagazine that delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. The program presents breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special -- sometimes quirky -- features.

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Nailing The American Dream, With Polish

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A model shows off an ABC student's work. Most of the students are studying manicuring.

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Tam Nguyen (center right) and his sister Linh run the Advance Beauty College in Garden Grove, Calif.

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Actress Tippi Hedren was instrumental in helping Vietnamese immigrants to California get started in the nail industry.

By Karen Grigsby Bates

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 8:25 pm

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If you've had a manicure in California, odds are the person at the other end of the emery board was of Vietnamese heritage.

Vietnamese immigrants now dominate California's nail-care industry — and make up a significant percentage of all manicurists nationwide.

The story began with a hurried immigration after the fall of Saigon almost four decades ago.

Sparked by the interest of a group of refugees and the help of a Hollywood star, the demand for affordable manicures quickly became the foundation of the American dream for many Vietnamese newcomers.

4:53 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Can A Colon Cancer Test Level The Playing Field For Native Alaskans?

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Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 8:56 pm

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Alaska Natives are twice as likely to get colon cancer and die from it as the white population in the United States. When Mayo Clinic doctor David Ahlquist took a trip to Bethel, Alaska, in the mid-1990s, that startling statistic caught his attention.

"Here they had one of the world's highest rates of colon cancer and one of the world's poorest outcomes in terms of survival from cancer, because of late diagnosis," Ahlquist says.

4:50 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Mozambique Farmland Is Prize In Land Grab Fever

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Young boys thresh soybeans by hand in Ruasse.

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The company Quifel Natural Resources is growing sunflowers near Ruasse. It's part of a land concession that covers 25,000 acres. Sunflowers are valuable for their oil.

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Workers harvest sesame, an oilseed crop, on the large farm that Quifel Natural Resources has set up in northern Mozambique.

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Caterina Alberto is one of Ruasse's most prosperous farmers.

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The Quifel Natural Resources farm near Ruasse sends tanks to draw irrigation water from the stream that also supplies the village's water.

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Vitorino Munalile walks past a field where he used to grow crops. Workers at the investor-owned farm recently plowed up the land for the farm's own use.

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Villagers in Ruasse used this land to grow corn, sugar cane and cassava. A month or two ago, tractors from the Quifel Natural Resources farm plowed it up. The villagers say that they never received any payment for the crops that they lost.

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Getting to the village of Ruasse, in northern Mozambique, involved driving 60 miles on this road. Paved roads are scarce in this country.

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Workers harvest sesame, an oilseed crop, on the large farm that Quifel Natural Resources has set up in northern Mozambique.

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Farming, like most other tasks, is done by hand in rural Mozambique.

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A herd of goats in the village of Ruasse. Notice the power lines — Ruasse is lucky to have them. Many villages in northern Mozambique don't have access to electricity.

By Daniel Charles

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 3:37 pm

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First of a two-part series. Read part 2.

In these days of financial uncertainty, the hot new investment tip is farmland.

4:04 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

NewsPoet: Robert Pinsky Writes The Day In Verse

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Robert Pinsky visits NPR headquarters in Washington D.C., on Thursday.

By editor

Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 11:18 am

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Today at All Things Considered, we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

4:03 pm

Thu June 14, 2012

Walnut Meringue Cookies Sealed With A 'Kiss'

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Listener Jamie Lynn Stevenson's "lost" recipe for walnut meringue cookies was passed down from her great-grandmother Rosina Richardt.

By editor

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 5:35 pm

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Jamie Lynn Stevenson can still remember the smell of walnut meringue cookies wafting from her great-grandmother's kitchen. The "little piles of heaven," also known in her family as bussels, or "kisses" in German, were dense but chewy, with hints of caramelized nut flavor inside.

"I was just salivating waiting for them," Stevenson recalls. "And the great thing about these cookies is that they didn't take very long to bake!"

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