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Extortion Common For Latin American Businesses

By Carrie Kahn

Originally published on Mon June 10, 2013 11:16 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Latin America has some of the highest crime rates in the world. And that includes extortion, which doesn't just terrorize but also takes a huge economic toll on ordinary citizens. In many Latin American countries, it's costing billions of dollars and hindering development. As part of our series on violence in Latin America, NPR's Carrie Kahn takes us to Mexico, where some estimates say extortion costs more than $30 billion a year. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: Extortion costs an estimated $3.2 billion in Mexico annually.]

3:55 am

Sat June 8, 2013

Fifty Years Later, 'A Better Chance' Trains Young Scholars

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Sylvester Monroe and then-wife Regina at his graduation from Harvard University in 1973.

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Frank Hernandez is a senior at The Thacher School. He'll be attending President Obama's alma mater, Occidental College, in the fall.

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Mahogany Monette is a junior at The Thacher School. She's thinking of applying to Northeastern University in Boston.

By editor

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 3:39 am

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Fifty-five boys — all poor and almost all African-American — were a part of a bold educational experiment in the early 1960s. They were placed in an intensive summer school program. If they finished, the headmasters of 16 prep schools agreed to accept them. Tuition paid.

Planning for that experiment started in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement, one year before President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his "War on Poverty." Today, what began with 55 students and 16 schools has become an institution celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's called "A Better Chance."

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Sat June 8, 2013

Aoife O'Donovan: Digging Up Musical 'Fossils'

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Aoife O'Donovan's first solo album is called Fossils.

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Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 8:12 am

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Alison Krauss recorded "Lay My Burden Down" a couple of years ago for her No. 1 country album Paper Airplane, but the song was written by Aoife O'Donovan. The singer, best known as the voice of the alt-bluegrass band Crooked Still, is releasing her first solo album this week.

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Sat June 8, 2013

WWII Vets Have All But Vanished From The Halls Of Congress

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Military pallbearers carry the coffin of the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg into the Senate chamber on Thursday. He was the only remaining World War II veteran in the Senate.

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Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., is celebrated by friends and colleagues on Capitol Hill on Friday, as he becomes the longest-serving member of Congress in history.

By Don Gonyea

Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 3:39 am

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Sen. Frank Lautenberg was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. There was a steady rain. Soldiers fired rifle volleys, a bugler played taps and mourners paid their final respects.

The New Jersey Democrat was 89 when he died this week — and his death marked a somber milestone.

For the first time since the end of World War II, there are no veterans of that war in the U.S. Senate. Lautenberg had been the only one remaining.

6:30 am

Sat June 1, 2013

Charting The Career Of The 'Evocateur' Of Talk

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Morton Downey Jr. was the loudest mouth on television. He treated guests like guys on the other side of the wrestling ring - bullying, hectoring and blowing smoke in their faces.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE MORTON DOWNEY JR. SHOW")

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Why?

MORTON DOWNEY JR.: Why? What the hell do you mean why? Are you nuts? Get him out of here. Get this guy out...

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