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All Things Considered

Weekdays, 4pm - 7pm; Weekends, 5pm - 6pm

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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Vampire Weekend: New Sounds Signal The End Of An Era

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Vampire Weekend's third album is titled Modern Vampires of the City. Singer Ezra Koenig (far left) says he sees it as the closing chapter of a trilogy.

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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 9:17 pm

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3:35 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear

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Colonists built the original glass-blowing kiln in Jamestown, Va., at this beach for easy access to the sand. Now the site is just inches above the water level.

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A re-created section of the fort wall in the English colony of Jamestown, Va., sits on top of the original post holes. The fort was thought to have been lost to the James River, but was rediscovered by excavations that began in 1994. Since then, approximately 2 million artifacts have been recovered.

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A view of the continuing excavations at Jamestown fort.

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A brackish marsh separates most of Jamestown Island from the Virginia mainland.

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Archaeologists excavate a section of the fort near a church tower that was built in the 17th century.

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They call it "fried chicken." A lab worker shows a box of old metal that once served as a kind of chain mail for a Jamestown soldier. Each piece is carefully buffed with a wire brush to remove the copious rust.

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Bly Straub, the lead curator of the Jamestown artifacts, stands in a private storage and display room on Jamestown Island. Straub has traced the history of the artifacts to all parts of the world.

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Glass blower Ron Rogers works in a replica factory near the site of the original Jamestown kiln. He practices his craft just as the colonists did, except for using gas-fueled ovens instead of wood-fired ones.

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Dorothy Geyer, a natural resource specialist for the National Park Service at Jamestown, says it's common practice among archaeologists to intentionally leave some artifacts in the ground — so future researchers can study them with better technology. But with flooding in the forecast, that principle is now up for debate.

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Gary Speiran is a hydrologist who has been monitoring the ground water level on the island. He says not only is the river water level rising, but the water table itself is also rising. All this water threatens artifacts still in the ground and many of the original Jamestown sites, such as the kiln and the fort.

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Carl Hershner, a climate scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, says that some coastal sites might actually be sinking because pumping out groundwater causes soil to settle.

By Christopher Joyce

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 7:15 pm

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By the end of the century, the birthplace of America may be underwater.

The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist. You can go there and see the ruins. You can walk where Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas walked. But Jamestown is now threatened by rising sea levels that scientists say could submerge the island by century's end.

3:34 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

Who Hides Money Outside The Country?

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Belize, the home of our offshore company, Unbelizable.

By David Kestenbaum

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 7:15 pm

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Over the past decade, some 39,000 people have come forward voluntarily to tell the IRS about offshore money they haven't been paying taxes on. This group provides a small window into the world of people who are hiding money in offshore havens. (It's a world we've been trying to learn more about, partly by setting up an offshore company in Belize.)

3:28 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

Living On The Border, Driven — Literally — Underground

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Abimael Martinez, who was deported from Riverside, Calif., sits next to the hole he dug to live in beneath the banks of Tijuana's fetid river canal.

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Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 7:15 pm

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After living underground in the United States — figuratively speaking — some undocumented immigrants deported to the Mexican border city of Tijuana are living in holes. These migrants have dug bunkers along Tijuana's sewage canal to protect themselves from police who routinely burn down their makeshift homes.

3:05 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

The Enemy Inside: Rhino's Protectors Sometimes Aid Poachers

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Mike Watson (left), CEO of Kenya's Lewa Conservancy, and conservationist Ian Craig identify the carcass of a 4-year-old black rhino named Arthur, whom poachers had killed the night before. The well-armed, well-informed poachers very likely used night vision goggles and a silencer on an AK-47.

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Game rangers report for duty at a community conservancy in northern Kenya. The flourishing safari economy in Kenya generates more than $1 billion a year and nearly 500,000 jobs.

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Mzee Kinyanjui is one of the first and longest-serving rangers to work for Lewa Conservancy. Now retired, he is often called upon for advice and guidance by the security department for his forensic skills.

By Gregory Warner

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 8:19 pm

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It says a lot about the state of the war against poachers in Africa that the Lewa Conservancy, a private sanctuary in Kenya with 12 percent of the country's rhinos, recently appointed a CEO who has never studied zoology or biology. Instead, Mike Watson is an ex-captain in the British army.

His training has already come in handy. Take, for instance, a visit to a crime scene earlier this year: a rhino carcass splayed out in the mud.

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