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Journalist Richard Pollak's latest book, The Colombo Bay, tells the story of his five-week journey from Hong Kong to New York aboard a container ship. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Pollak.

Novelist Nick Hornby's new book, Songbook, contains a collection of essays about Hornby's favorite pop tunes. It includes a meditation on a reggae version of "Puff the Magic Dragon." The unusual song is a favorite of Hornby's autistic son, and it teaches him something about his passion for music. Hear Hornby and NPR's Renee Montagne.

The owner of the online bookstore Sistah Scifi has rolled out vending machines that contain books by Black and Indigenous science fiction and fantasy authors, most of whom are women.

It’s thought the crew has three to four days-worth of oxygen left at most.

Fire officials say they have more than a third of the fire contained on Catalina Island, and they hope to have it under control by early next week.

It's one of the most common words in English, and one of the most maligned. But it has been doing useful work for centuries, and lately it's acquired a new, hip meaning. Fresh Air linguist Geoff Nunberg gives us his thoughts on the little word, "um."

If the Toronto Blue Jays decide to no longer use Dunedin as their spring training home, a replacement team may already be waiting in the wings.The Phoenix…

Clearwater Police shut down Sunset Point Road for about two hours Sunday morning after an apparently mentally ill man tried to set a bucket of fertilizer…

A University of South Florida police officer in Tampa whose Twitter bio described herself as a "KKK member" has been fired.Former USF officer Presley…

Is coronavirus stopping you from visiting a loved one? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has expanded an order preventing people from visiting nursing homes to…

Noah talks to Ramogi Huma, Chairman of the Collegiate Athlete Coalition, about why he contacted the United Steelworkers of America to help him organize the football players at UCLA. Huma is a former linebackers with the UCLA Bruins, and is attending graduate school at the UCLA. School of Public Health.

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An Atlanta office building housing an abortion clinic was the site of two explosions this morning. The first explosion was inside the building, on the first floor where the clinic is housed. The second was in a trash container near the building after law enforcement and fire personnel were on the scene. There were several injuries, but no deaths. Joshua Levs reports from Atlanta.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a medical mystery that has baffled doctors for decades -- Does a monkey virus that contaminated a polio vaccine in the mid-1950s increase the risk of certain rare cancers? Federal officials held a two-day conference this week to examine new data showing that the virus is present in rare tumors of the brain, bone, and lung.

NPR's Vicky Que reports on an outbreak of hepatitis A that is being linked to contaminated strawberries. So far the only cases that have been confirmed are in Michigan, but the strawberries were shipped to five other states. School officials in Los Angeles are planning to offer shots to about nine thousand students who may have eaten strawberries distributed through school lunch programs.

the Persian Gulf War to try and get further information about illnesses connected to the destruction of an Iraqi chemical weapons depot in 1991, which is now believed to have contained nerve gas.

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NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports that the Food and Drug Administration today opened a two-day meeting to discuss 'herbal' products containing a natural form of the stimulant ephedrine. The products have been linked to hundreds of cases of adverse health effects. The FDA is considering taking action against them, raising concerns among the makers of other herbal products.

It's Thursday, the day All Things Considered reads from listener letters. Robert and Linda bring us some of the highlights from this week's listener correspondence. (4:00) To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports one of the last points of Israeli-Palestinian contact was severed today. An Israeli soldier was killed and at least two Palestinians injured in an attack on a joint security liaison office in the Gaza Strip. Israel then ordered Palestinian security officers to leave all the liaison offices throughout the West Bank and Gaza.

Environmentalists worry about "bio-pharming" -- the creation of grain varieties for drug research. Regular corn and soybean crops could become contaminated, say groups such as Greenpeace. Regulators are just beginning to address those concerns. NPR's John McChesney reports.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that Britain is trying to contain an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. All slaughterhouses have been closed and exclusion zones have been placed around at least nine farms. Foot and mouth disease afflicts hoofed animals, and is said to pose no health threat to humans.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that French officials have ordered the destruction of 50,000 sheep that may have come into contact with animals from Britain infected with foot and mouth disease. The appearance of the disease in British livestock has caused panic, prompting European officials to take drastic measures in hopes of preventing anepidemic.

The Senate Banking Committee holds a hearing to look into the security of consumer information and possible privacy protections to prevent identity theft. At least three major companies -- most recently, Lexis-Nexis -- have suffered security breaches in private databases containing consumer data.

In the southern Sri Lankan city of Galle, the number of those killed by Sunday's tsunami reaches 23,000. Across much of southern Asia, contaminated drinking water and the lack of sanitary facilities threaten the lives of survivors. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Jason Beaubien.