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May 25, 2013 | NPR · The presidential salute actually breaks with military decorum and was started by Ronald Reagan in 1981.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · London duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have made names for themselves with their wild, experimental food installations. From pineapple islands and banana vapors to re-creations of famous architectural monuments, their work playfully pushes the boundary of how we experience food.
 

May 25, 2013 | NPR · Authorities said a Union Pacific train t-boned a Burlington Northern train. After a diesel fuel leak, one of the engines caught fire but firefighters were able to extinguish it.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · NPR’s Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read Snowflake by Winona Wendth of Lancaster, Mass., and Geometry by Eugenie Montague of Los Angeles.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke return for the third in Richard Linklater’s loosely peerless Before series, and they’ve never been more persuasive — nor has the storytelling. (Recommended)
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · London duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have made names for themselves with their wild, experimental food installations. From pineapple islands and banana vapors to re-creations of famous architectural monuments, their work playfully pushes the boundary of how we experience food.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · Browne and her band, The Bangin’ Rackettes, are a flamboyant retro ensemble from Australia. The group’s new album is called Baby Caught the Bus.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · Watch the energetic conductor take flight conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s iconic score. A recently released DVD of a 1966 performance includes an interview with Bernstein, in which he says the famously brutal music “makes a marvelous kind of savage sound.”
 

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