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All Things Considered is a NPR radio newsmagazine that delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. The program presents breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special -- sometimes quirky -- features.

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Shots - Health Blog
5:54 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Foundation's Sanitation Fair

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Bill Gates, co-founder of the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, checks out a toilet demo at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, Wash. The festival featured prototypes of high-tech toilets developed by researchers around the world.
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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 6:23 pm

This week, Bill Gates was at a summer fair in Washington State, but he was not eating deep-fried butter on-a-stick, or checking out livestock.

Gates was inspecting cutting-edge toilet technology on display at an event his foundation hosted in Seattle — the Reinvent the Toilet Fair.

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American Dreams: Then And Now
5:42 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

A Baseball School For Big League Dreamers

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Ketchum Marsh, a senior from Massachusetts, walks back to the dugout during an intrasquad game at IMG Baseball Academy, where he trains and goes to school.
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Marsh will play baseball at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., next year.
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Just 1,200 players are drafted each year — and major league rosters have only 750 active slots.
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Ketchum Marsh, a high school senior from Massachusetts, walks back to the dugout during a May 21 intrasquad game at IMG Baseball Academy in Bradenton, Fla., where he trains and goes to school.
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World Geography teacher Christoph LeClainche with some of the student-athletes at IMG Academy. IMG students spend half the day in class and half playing baseball.
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Marsh started attending IMG in eighth grade. Tuition, room and board for the academic and sports program runs about $70,000 a year.
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IMG says it's had 17 players drafted since 2006.
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IMG Academy pitching coach Dave Shepard gives pointers to pitcher Cameron Varga.
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Marsh warms up during an intrasquad game. His coaches say he has surpassed other players who may have had more athletic ability but lacked his work ethic.
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IMG Baseball Academy Director Ken Bolek is a former major and minor league coach.
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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 9:11 pm

If you have ever dreamed of playing big-league baseball, chances are the dream started to fade sometime in high school.

It gradually becomes clear: You won't be starting in Game 7 of the World Series, and tipping your cap after hitting a walk-off homer. So at some point you go from player to fan — watching others chase greatness on the diamond.

But not every baseball dreamer is willing to give up so early. And in Bradenton, Fla., there's a place that lies somewhere between the Little League field and Yankee Stadium.

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It's All Politics
5:42 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Could Ryan Lure Younger Voters To GOP?

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Rep. Paul Ryan greets supporters during a campaign rally Sunday in Waukesha, Wis.
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Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 9:08 am

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly chosen vice presidential running mate for Republican Mitt Romney, was in Ohio on Wednesday to speak at his alma mater.

Ryan graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1992 with degrees in economics and political science. And his ascension to the GOP ticket thrills Rob Harrelson, a member of the school's College Republicans (as was Ryan, two decades earlier).

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Sports
4:22 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe On Winning Gold In London

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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 6:23 pm

Melissa Block talks to U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe about winning a gold medal in London, the future of the profession, and coming out before the start of the Olympics.

Around the Nation
4:17 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Controversy At The National Scrabble Tournament

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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 6:23 pm

A player at the national Scrabble tournament was kicked out of the competition after he was caught cheating. For more, Audie Cornish speaks to sportswriter and Scrabble aficionado Stefan Fatsis.

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