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Technology

Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early

Clocks on computers, VCRs and other reputedly "smart" devices left a lot of people confused when they automatically switched from Daylight Savings to standard time before they were supposed to. That's because Congress moved the changeover by a week.

Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early

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Ghost Story: Coma Gives Injured Biker New Insight

Storyteller Kevin Kling tells us of ghosts, but not the scary kind. After a motorcycle accident almost took his life six years ago, Kling recalls, his coma kept him in what he thinks of as two worlds.

Ghost Story: Coma Gives Injured Biker New Insight

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Business

Firms Use Carrot, Stick to Encourage Healthy Habits

Firms are cracking down on the health of employees. Clarian Health recently revised plans to penalize workers for smoking, high blood pressure, or a body mass index over a certain limit. Monitoring workers' health is a growing trend; it costs more to insure smokers and overweight people.

Firms Use Carrot, Stick to Encourage Healthy Habits

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Sweetness And Light

The Game of the Century (So Far)

Amid the abundance of all the fall sports, there is a really big game to look forward to this Sunday. Frank Deford calls the NFL face-off between undefeated New England and Indianapolis a clash of Titans — and the first Game of the Century.

The Game of the Century (So Far)

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Tuesday

From Our Listeners

Letters: Fires, Foster Parents and Birth Control

Listeners and blog readers comment about the wildfires that have swept across Southern California, and the appropriate compensation for foster parents. They also share their thoughts on providing prescription birth control pills to middle-school students.

Letters: Fires, Foster Parents and Birth Control

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Poet on Call

From Poetry to Web: Tools of Youthful Rebellion

Commentator Andrei Codrescu hears that Internet startups are like rock bands — a dream of powerless youth. Once upon a time, stand-up comedy served the same purpose. And before that, it was poetry. But today's Web sites are part of the mainstream, he says, and the rebellion is blunted.

From Poetry to Web: Tools of Youthful Rebellion

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From Our Listeners

Saggy Pants Songwriter Sort of Says He's Sorry

Dooney Da' Priest's rap song "Pull Your Pants Up" is meant to shame young men in Dallas from wearing saggy britches because the style makes them look like they're gay.

Saggy Pants Songwriter Sort of Says He's Sorry

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Monday

The Unger Report

FEMA Gets 'F' for Fake News Conference

Federal Emergency Management Agency has apologized for holding a news briefing in which its employees posed as reporters The misstep has angered and offended many people, including our resident humorist.

FEMA Gets 'F' for Fake News Conference

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Saturday

This I Believe

Dancing All the Dances as Long as I Can

At 70, writer and minister Robert Fulghum fears what will happen as he grows old. That's why he's learning to tango. Fulghum believes dancing will challenge his body, mind and spirit as he ages.

Dancing All the Dances as Long as I Can

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Analysis

Analysis

Turk-Iraq Conflict Could End With PKK Ceasefire

Turkey has massed as many as 100,000 troops along Iraq's northern border, preparing for ground action against the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK. Avoiding conflict would require the PKK to issue an unconditional ceasefire, which would calm the rhetoric.

Turk-Iraq Conflict Could End With PKK Ceasefire

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Sports

Rockies' Diamond May Help Against Red Sox

The third game of Major League Baseball's World Series switches to Coors Field in Denver where the Colorado Rockies face The Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox lead the series 2-0. The Rockies had won 21 out of their last 22 games, including seven in a row in the playoffs.

Rockies' Diamond May Help Against Red Sox

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Analysis

Analysis

U.S. Sanctions Against Iran Harmful for Future

The Bush administration imposes sanctions on the Quds division of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and banks with ties to the Guard, charging the Guard is a terrorist organization. These are the the first sanctions to target the armed forces of a foreign government.

U.S. Sanctions Against Iran Harmful for Future

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Halloween Tricks And Audio Treats

Literary Detective Describes Halloween Tales

Paul Collins, a writing professor at Portland State University, shares little-known spooky stories and books for Halloween. He describes himself as a literary detective.

Literary Detective Describes Halloween Tales

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