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Colorado’s Attorney General issues a warning regarding a popular newspaper, and a “Trash Treasure Hunt.”

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‘Tornado Emergency:’ A Rare, Dire Warning Born In Oklahoma
May 21, 2013 | NPR · The warning is issued by forecasters in the deadliest of situations. It was first used during a storm eerily similar to Monday’s. It was 1999 and the Norman, Okla., office foretold a twister that left left 46 people dead and injured 800.
 

The Difficulties Of Proving Racial Profiling
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Closing arguments have wrapped up in a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy. Plaintiffs say the majority of the stops involved black and Hispanic men. But New York City says there’s no racial motivation whatsoever. Host Michel Martin asks the tricky question: how exactly do you prove racial profiling?
 

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Socks Are Optional As Pakistan Grapples With Power Cuts
May 21, 2013 | NPR · You are a poor country with chronic power shortages. The summer is blazing hot. What do you do? In Pakistan, the prime minister has banned air conditioners in government offices — but says it’s OK for workers to go without socks.
 

Arts & Life

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The Starfleet Divide: The ‘Star Trek’ Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
May 21, 2013 | NPR · J.J. Abrams isn’t the first guy to bait Star Trek fans by messing with the brand.
 

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Book News: Stephen King’s New Bogeyman? Digital Publishing
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Also: the legacy of Kierkegaard; the creator of Lyle Crocodile has died; Aussie airliner Qantas commissions flight-length books.
 

American Voices On ‘The Unwinding’ Of America’s Values
May 21, 2013 | NPR · George Packer’s The Unwinding explores the social and economic upheavals that have transformed the U.S. over the past 30 years. In a nuanced work of literary journalism, colorful characters from across the class divide tell their own stories of a social contract in tatters.
 

Music

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The National On World Cafe
May 21, 2013 | WXPN · The band plays dour but beautiful songs from its brand-new album, Trouble Will Find Me.
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Gods And Monsters: 5 Unforgettable Wagner Moments
May 21, 2013 | NPR · William Berger, author of Wagner Without Fear, guides us through five of his favorite Wagner moments — musical episodes that keep the composer’s extraordinary dramas in our lives today.
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First Listen Live: Queens Of The Stone Age, ‘…Like Clockwork’
May 21, 2013 | NPR · Josh Homme presides over a dense, textured, unpredictable sound that’s equal parts mystery, intensity, beauty and bluster. Watch QOTSA perform …Like Clockwork in its entirety, then tackle an assortment of older material, in a sold-out show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 23.
 

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