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  • Here's annual income for U.S. households, in one chart.
  • Italian singer and songwriter Paolo Conte is a former lawyer from the small northern Italian town of Asti. He went from being an admirer of music to a musician in 1974 when he recorded his first album. He has since made a total of 11 albums.
  • JOHN GRISHAM cont'd.Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Earthling" the new album by David Bowie. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .JOHN GRISHAM. . . the popular writer of legal thrillers has a new novel, "The Partner." He'll talk with Terry Gross about his work and about the law cases that inspired him to write. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.
  • GEORGE CONVINGTON interview, cont''d.
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  • The Stars and Stripes has been a staple of wartime since World War I, bringing soldiers news from home and the battlefront. The newspaper strives to provide an independent voice while under military control. Some readers and even some of its reporters have claimed the paper is too cozy with the military, while many in the top brass say it's too hostile. NPR's Bob Edwards reports.
  • NCAA basketball fans often strive to rattle free throw shooters — but, for commentator Frank Deford, few efforts match Arizona State's Curtain of Distraction, which he sums up as: "shock and awful."
  • Italy's premier announced his resignation and blamed his far-right coalition partner for undermining the government.
  • Scientists say they are closer to knowing how, or rather why, the zebra got its stripes. It's an answer that would impress even Rudyard Kipling.
  • Built around a one-chord boogie, The White Stripes' "Rag and Bone" barely qualifies as a song: It mostly revs in neutral as it plays out like a sketch punctuated by blasts of bluesy rock. More importantly, it finally allows drummer Meg White to showcase her personality.
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