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The Picture Show
5:13 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Russia By Rail: One Last Look

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A street scene in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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NPR photographer David Gilkey compiled a set of images featuring street scenes echoing the strength and self-assuredness of the Russian people and culture.
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Yuri Bronnikov, a former engineer, stands on the wintery shores of Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:07 am

Six thousand miles. Seven time zones. And endless cups of hot tea.

NPR reporter David Greene along with producer Laura Krantz and photographer David Gilkey boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway in Moscow and took two weeks to make their way to the Pacific Ocean port city of Vladivostok.

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Movies
4:01 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Wim Wenders On 'Pina': A Dance Documentary In 3-D

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Damiano Ottavio Bigi and Clementine Deluy, both members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, perform her choreography in Pina.
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Director Wim Wenders says he was thoroughly uninterested in dance — until seeing Bausch's work in 1985. The evening inspired a decades-long collaboration with her.
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Bausch's unconventional approach to subject matter and staging challenged Wenders when representing the work on screen.
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By Pat Dowell

The film Pina is Germany's official entry at the 84th Academy Awards — and a collaboration between two famous Germans of the postwar generation. The filmmaker Wim Wenders captures the groundbreaking modern-dance choreography of the late Pina Bausch, in what many critics are calling a groundbreaking use of 3-D film.

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Reporter's Notebook
4:00 am
Sat January 14, 2012

In Haiti, Hope Is Still Hard To Find

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Elicia Andre, who says she used to be much larger — a sign of affluence in Haiti — is now skin and bones.
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You can see some progress in Haiti two years since the 7.0-magnitude quake hit. But Port-au-Prince is a tour of unrelenting misery and often disturbing images. Things are happening — slowly. You can tell the pace of progress by looking into people's eyes — emptiness looks back at you. Pain is etched on their faces.

You see it in Elicia Andre. We met her back in December at the homeless encampment run by Catholic Relief Services in Port-au-Prince, where she sought refuge after the quake. The charity had just given her $500 to rent an apartment for a year.

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Europe
4:00 am
Sat January 14, 2012

AAA No More: Credit Downgrade Hits France

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The loss of France's AAA credit rating is likely to play a role in President Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election bid.
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Originally published on Sat January 14, 2012 12:12 pm

Standard & Poor's downgraded the sovereign debt of France, Italy, Spain and six other European countries on Friday. The move was highly expected, but it's still a blow to France and sending shock waves across Europe. France is the eurozone's second-largest economy, and its downgrade could even threaten Europe's master plan to stop its debt crisis.

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Author Interviews
3:00 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Is It Time For You To Go On An 'Information Diet'?

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"Clicks have consequences" says Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet.
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Clay A. Johnson is the founder of Blue State Digital and former director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation.
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We're used to thinking of "obesity" in physical terms — unhealthful weight that clogs our arteries and strains our hearts. But there's also an obesity of information that clogs our eyes and our minds and our inboxes: unhealthful information deep-fried in our own preconceptions.

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