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  • 'Chapel Of Love' Song Turns 50
    The members of The Dixie Cups discuss their 1964 hit about "going to the chapel."
  • Cave dwellings, inhabited for centuries, are perched on hillsides in Spain's Granada province.
    Cave-Dwelling In Spain Offers A Welcome Inconvenience
    In the province of Granada in Southern Spain, thousands of people live completely unplugged in caverns. The caves have been a place of refuge for centuries. Now they provide a new kind of escape.
  • Family Celebrates The Return Of Missing WWII Soldier's Remains
    The remains of William T. Carneal were found on the coastline of Saipan last year. After 70 years, Pfc. Carneal was remembered in a ceremony in his hometown of Paducah, Ky.
  • China's economy is poised to become the world's largest — but when?
    China Could (By One Measure) Pass U.S. As No. 1 Economy This Year
    A World Bank forecast was based on purchasing power parity, an estimate of the cost of living in a particular country. But that isn't the only way to measure the size of an economy.
  • The versatile Spanish conductor Rafael Frübeck de Burgos.
    Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos, Versatile Spanish Conductor, Dies At 80
    A week after announcing publicly that he had cancer, the widely beloved Spanish conductor has died at age 80.
  • <strong>Live, from the moon, it's the space weather report:</strong> Data from a lunar orbiter is being used to create a music stream that reflects conditions in space. Here, an image created by NASA "visualizers" who used data from 2010 to show the moon traveling across the sun, as happens two or three times a year.
    Space Music: How To Hear Solar Flares From The Moon
    Space weather can be heard, in a sense, by tuning in to CRaTER Radio, a "sonification" project that uses data from a NASA lunar orbiter to generate musical sounds. The results are then streamed onto the Internet.
  • Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band plays the Monterey Jazz Festival.
    Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band On JazzSet
    The Big Phat Band makes its Monterey Jazz Festival debut with "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Hunting Wabbits," inspired by Carl Stalling's 1940s scores for Warner Brothers cartoons.
  • Malmark handbells on the left and Schulmerich bells on the right.
    The Great Handbell War
    For decades, the world's two biggest handbell companies — headquartered down the street from each other in Pennsylvania — were at each other's throats.
  • A man crosses the street Tuesday in Philadelphia. A fast-moving cold front will plunge the Northeast into a deep freeze and dump up to a foot of snow in certain regions, forecasters said.
    What Is This Bombogenesis And Why Is It Dumping Snow On Us?
    The type of storm that's blowing up the East Coast of the U.S. on Tuesday has an explosive-sounding name. Add bombogenesis to the growing list of weather terms we're learning about this winter — a list that also includes polar vortex.
  • Eight-term Idaho GOP Rep. Mike Simpson has used his seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee to bring home funding for the Idaho National Laboratory. The nuclear research facility is spread over nearly 900 square miles of southeastern Idaho, including the above area.
    Idaho District Reflects Battle Over GOP's Soul
    Morning Edition is reporting from Idaho, where money is pouring in to support a Republican member of Congress, who faces a primary fight from a Tea Party candidate. The Tea Party is making an aggressive play to pick up seats in the House next fall. The race in Idaho offers a glimpse at some of the dynamics driving the GOP's internal conflict, and insight into how voters feel about the federal government.
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