10:41am

Mon June 20, 2011
Planet Money

Is This Europe's 'Lehman Moment'? Banks Don't Think So.

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People keep throwing around the phrase "Lehman moment" in connection with Greece's debt problems.

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10:35am

Mon June 20, 2011
The Two-Way

Supreme Court Rejects Female Workers' Class-Action Suit Against Wal-Mart

"The Supreme Court has ruled for Wal-Mart in its fight to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of women who work there," The Associated Press reports.

It adds that:

"The court ruled unanimously Monday that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lawsuit could have involved up to 1.6 million women."

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10:34am

Mon June 20, 2011
Eastern and Central Kentucky

Over 300 Kentuckians Tell Stories to NPR's StoryCorps

Rania Omar Burke and Lara Omar Swan have long been fans of StoryCorps. So when Burke heard that the national non-profit that records stories across the country was going to be in Lexington, she thought it would be the perfect birthday present for her sister. The two Chicago transplants spent their 40-minute StoryCorps session on Sunday, Father's Day, talking about a very timely subject: Their father. More than 300 people have climbed into the recording booth of the StoryCorps mobile trailer since the project came to Lexington on May 21. Among them was Fr. Ralph Beiting, founder of the Christian Appalachian Project.

10:30am

Mon June 20, 2011
U.S.

Affordable Manhattan: Co-Ops Keep The Dream Alive

Manhattan real estate goes for crazy prices: Condos and co-ops can cost millions. But the city also has a long history of affordable housing in the form of limited equity co-ops.

Today, many of these resident-owned buildings have become privatized by businesses that raise prices to open market rates. But a few of these co-ops are fighting to preserve a very different vision of living in New York City.

A Different Vision Of Urbanism

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10:26am

Mon June 20, 2011
Monkey See

Stephen Sondheim's 'Company': Can Theater-To-Film Take Off?

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This was the weekend that the production of Stephen Sondheim's Company filmed during a brief run with the New York Philharmonic in April enjoyed a limited run in movie theaters across the country. (If you missed it, there are rumblings of a one-shot encore date in July, but they're not yet listed on the official site, so stay tuned.)

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10:24am

Mon June 20, 2011
The Picture Show

Your Photo Of The Day: Father Figure

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"Your Photo Of The Day" is curated from our Flickr group. Submit your photos here.

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10:15am

Mon June 20, 2011
The Two-Way

Number Of Domain Names To Explode; Effect Debated

In voting today to dramatically expand what can be used as suffixes in Internet domain names, have the regulators of that world made the Web a whole lot more democratic or kicked off what are sure to be some expensive and extended battles over trademarks?

Perhaps both.

As The Associated Press writes:

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10:00am

Mon June 20, 2011
Tiny Desk Concerts

The Decemberists: Tiny Desk Concert

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  • Audio Only: The Decemberists' Tiny Desk Concert

"I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just trying to work," The Decemberists' Colin Meloy says a little ways into this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices. "I kind of like the romance of that."

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9:10am

Mon June 20, 2011
The Two-Way

Remembering Clarence Clemons And His 'Jungleland' Solo

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The sad news from the weekend that E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons died at the age of 69, a week after suffering a stroke at his home in Florida, has inspired quite a few "best Big Man solos" blogposts.

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9:00am

Mon June 20, 2011
Summer Books 2011

Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Books? You Tell Us

Credit Chris Silas Neal

In summer, people like to get away. Some visit the beach, others the mountains. But many of us like to go a little further: to Arrakis perhaps, or Earthsea — or maybe a new dimension entirely. Which is to say, we escape into a fat science fiction or fantasy novel.

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