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Great TV shows are languishing and it's our fault. Melinda Houston asks the viewers to tune in before the best shows drop out.

Google's stock price barreled through $US700 for the first time on Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in new markets.

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The New Yorker magazine's David Remnick talks with All Things Considered's Senior Host Robert Siegel about his new collection of essays at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC. Reporting is divided into five parts and covers suc

MUCH as George W. Bush’s presidency was ineluctably shaped by Sept. 11, 2001, so the outbreak of the French Revolution was symbolized by the events of one fateful day, July 14, 1789. And though 18th-century France may seem impossibly distant to contempo