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Business
4:49 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Airbus: 'The Time Is Right' To Open Alabama Plant

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

Jobs and the economy are big issues in this election. And from Alabama, we have a story of jobs coming from overseas to the U.S. European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is making a bold move into North America to compete in the largest market in the world for passenger jets.

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The firm will build its first U.S. assembly plant on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the region has been working for years to attract Airbus.

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4:49 am
Tue July 3, 2012

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 7:53 am

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NPR's business news starts with another bye-bye at Barclays.

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4:49 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Daycare Needs Stretch Around The Clock

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 5:29 am

As more people take shift work in the still struggling economy, the need for after hours child care has increased. Throughout the country, many daycare centers have begun offering evening hours or 24-hour care. Parents say their kids should be sleeping at home at night, but they have no choice but to work when jobs are available.

Middle East
3:31 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Can Sanctions Force Iran To Change Its Policies?

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Iranian workers make repairs to a unit at Tehran's oil refinery in November 2007. It's estimated that a Western oil embargo is costing Iran about $4.5 billion each month in lost revenue.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 8:17 am

Whether economic sanctions can force a government to change course is far from clear, but Iran should be a good test case.

A European Union embargo on Iranian oil took full effect this week, complementing U.S. measures that have grown much more severe in recent weeks. Other Western sanctions now in place target Iranian banks, foreign companies that provide shipping insurance for Iranian oil tankers, and foreign firms that invest in the Iranian oil industry.

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Science
3:30 am
Tue July 3, 2012

When Ice Cream Attacks: The Mystery of Brain Freeze

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NPR interns (from left) Angela Wong and Kevin Uhrmacher participate in an experiment to induce brain freeze.
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Joe Palca explains how to induce a brain freeze.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 2:12 pm

If it hasn't happened to you, count yourself as lucky. For many people, eating ice cream or drinking an icy drink too fast can produce a really painful headache. It usually hits in the front of the brain, behind the forehead.

The technical name for this phenomenon is cold-stimulus headache, but people also refer to it as "ice cream headache" or "brain freeze."

The good news is that brain freeze is easy to prevent — just eat more slowly. The other bit of good news is these headaches don't last very long — a minute at the outside.

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Space
3:28 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Fledgling NASA Nonprofit Starts To Liftoff

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 10:24 am

A new nonprofit organization that's supposed to take charge of expanding scientific research on the International Space Station has had a rocky first year but now is starting to show what it can do.

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space just signed one agreement with a company not traditionally linked to research in space: the sporting goods company Cobra Puma Golf.

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Author Interviews
3:20 am
Tue July 3, 2012

A Cautionary Tale About Transforming Afghanistan

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Scores of Americans engineers worked in southern Afghanistan from the late 1940s to the late 1970s to build two large dams and a canal network. The development project soon became a vast experiment in social engineering. New villages were constructed, with schools and health clinics. A new, modern society was to rise from the desert.
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Scores of American engineers worked in southern Afghanistan from the late 1940s to the late 1970s to build two large dams and a canal network. The development project soon became a vast experiment in social engineering. New villages were constructed, with schools and health clinics. A new, modern society was to rise from the desert.
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The clubhouse, set along the river, featured nightly card games and a Filipino barkeeper who could mix a potent gin and tonic. Nearly every week brought another dance or party.
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The streets were lined with trees. The brick and white-stucco homes with green front lawns resembled subdivisions in the American Southwest.
Credit Courtesy of Rebecca Ansary Pettys via Foreign Policy
"It was an enchanting time," remembered Rebecca Pettys, who lived there for six years starting in 1958, when she was 12 years old. Her Afghan father had received a doctorate from the University of Chicago and married a Finnish-American woman he met in Illinois. The family moved to southern Afghanistan so he could participate in the development effort.
Credit Courtesy of Rajiv Chandrasekaran via Foreign Policy

In the early 1950s, Americans working on a huge engineering project in southern Afghanistan lived in a self-contained community. It looked like a piece of America dropped into the Afghan desert and was known as "Little America."

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Seven-year-old Lawrence Odle and his 9-year-old sister, Bettina, stand in front of their home in Lashkar Gah in 1956.
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The residents lived as they would have in an American town at the time. Men dressed in coats and ties. Women wore knee-length skirts. They had dinner parties and picnics, where alcohol was served.
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Children sit on the diving board at the community pool. It was the country's only co-ed pool.
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Children could play on the tennis court or frolic in the clubhouse. They often gathered in each other's homes to drink lemonade and listen to records of Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers. They spent many afternoons playing along the banks of the Helmand River.
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In 1946, Afghanistan's king, Mohammed Zahir Shah (pointing), hired the American engineering firm that built the Hoover Dam and the San Francisco Bay Bridge to construct dams and irrigation canals in southern Afghanistan. He believed the project could transform the arid valley into a fertile and thriving oasis.
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor for The Washington Post.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 1:05 pm

The plan in Afghanistan was ambitious. Americans would set up a base in one of the most remote parts of one of the world's most isolated countries. The project would last many years and cost large sums of money. And in the end, Afghanistan, or at least one small part of it, would be a new, modern country.

When Americans think of large-scale U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, most would point to the Sept. 11 attacks that prompted the American invasion of the country in 2001.

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Asia
3:19 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Cheered In Europe, Suu Kyi Faces Crises In Myanmar

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Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf, June 13. The plight of the Rohingya minority is one of the tests Suu Kyi faces at home.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she leaves Westminster Hall after addressing both Houses of Parliament on June 21 in London.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 10:15 am

There are few opposition leaders who are welcomed abroad with the same pomp and ceremony as heads of state. But that's the sort of star treatment lavished on Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader of Myanmar, also known as Burma, on her three-week tour of Europe.

But pressure is increasing on her to address simmering political crises at home, and to move her country's democratic changes forward.

In Geneva, Oslo, Dublin, London and Paris, Suu Kyi issued eloquent pleas for ethical foreign investment in Myanmar and foreign support for her country's ongoing reforms.

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Around the Nation
7:35 am
Mon July 2, 2012

Art Thief Returns Stolen Salvador Dali Drawing

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Latin America
7:23 am
Mon July 2, 2012

Mexico's Former Ruling Party Returns To Power

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

In Mexico, the party that ruled for more than 70 years is claiming victory in the presidential election. According to preliminary results, the PRI, or PRI candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, won the most votes, but the apparent runner-up is refusing to concede. NPR's Carrie Kahn has more on this from Mexico City.

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